C.C. Communications President Cindy Cockburn has more than 20 years of “hands on” experience working with the national and international media, both as a reporter and public relations professional. She founded her west coast Florida-based public relations agency, C. C. Communications, in 2001. The boutique PR agency has had a successful track record promoting hotels and luxury golf resorts, health spas, travel destinations and attractions, film festivals, restaurants, grand openings and special events.
President Cindy Cockburn is currently the spokesperson and PR representative for the new $36 million Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
For three years prior to the grand opening, she attended media receptions from Toronto, New York and Chicago to Washington D.C. and Atlanta. The PR team co-ordinated the Grand Opening on 1-11-11 and continue to host media from around the globe on a daily basis.
C.C. Communications was also selected as the Florida “agency of record” for the Grand Opening launch and ongoing public relations for the largest hotel project in the United States: Grande Lakes Orlando - a Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott, Greg Norman designed golf course, with a 40,000 square foot Ritz-Carlton Spa and new restaurant by acclaimed Chef Norman Van Aken.
Before opening her own agency, Cockburn held the position of Area Director of Public Relations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. based at the Westin Innisbrook Resort in Tampa Bay. While at Starwood, Cindy saved the company the equivalent of $20 million in advertising through editorial placements and received the award for “Best Print Media Placement in North America” during the national launch of the Westin Heavenly Bed.
Book Author/Reporter
Cockburn is also a book author, columnist, and a freelance writer who has worked for a variety of national publications from Town & Country and People to Family Circle magazines. She has covered the Super Bowl for the Sarasota Herald Tribune, produced columns for the St. Petersburg Times and articles for Tender Loving Care, a publication produced by All Children’s Hospital. As a Society columnist, Cindy contributed to W and Women’s Wear Daily and produced a weekly column for the Newport Daily News. As the author of two travel guides, Cindy reviewed Florida’s West Coast for two FROMMER’S GUIDES TO FLORIDA, published by Macmillian Travel, a Simon & Schuster company.
Recent Editorial Placements/Media Contacts:
- Town & Country
- Travel & Leisure
- Conde Nast Traveler
- New York Times
- Wall Street Journal
- Women's Wear Daily
- USA TODAY
- Miami Herald
- Washington Post
- BRIDES
- Boston Globe
- Chicago Tribune
- Sunday Times of London
- Toronto Star
- Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Orlando Sentinel
- St. Petersburg Times
- Tampa Tribune
Professional Achievements: Guest Speaker
- The Ritz-Carlton Public Relations Media Marketplace – New York City
- Public Relations Society of America – New York City
- Florida Suncoast Writers Conference – St. Petersburg
- National Tourism Week – St. Petersburg/Clearwater CVB Advisory Board
Education:
University of South Florida
B.A. Communications
