We help your stories make noise.
Media and communications specialists. Writers. Editors. Reputation consultants. Storytellers.
Jesse Gerner can help you with
Strategic planning and execution: creating internal and external communications plans and strategies to help tell your story across multiple channels.
Writing: creating content to tell your story, from blog posts to annual reports.
Leadership communications: working with senior leaders to craft speeches and written messages.
Proofreading and copy editing: reviewing your content for the nuts and bolts of consistent spelling, punctuation, formatting, language use, tone, clear meaning, smooth reading and a well-structured argument or story.
Style guides: creating customised guides with terms and grammatical styles specific to your business/project, which help guide other writers.
Matija Sraj can help you with
Strategic planning and execution: creating media and communications plans and strategies, including proactive and reactive media, to help tell your story across multiple channels.
Media risk assessment and crisis management: assessing potential risks, and planning for and managing crises.
Media management and engagement: media coaching, managing relationships with media, creating media releases and organising and running press conferences.
Speeches and opinion pieces: creating engaging speeches and opinion pieces.
Legal writing: drafting narrative legal documents such as affidavits and statements; interviewing and taking statements.
About Jesse
Jesse has worked in communications, writing, publishing and media roles in Australia and the United States for nearly 20 years.
His work has spanned the performing arts, sports, agriculture, higher education and even the maple syrup industry with the likes of Arts Centre Melbourne, Dairy Australia, the Victorian Government, the New England Sports Network, The Boston Globe newspaper and numerous Australian universities.
A grammar geek and storyteller who loves wielding a red pen almost as much as writing a good tale, Jesse has worked with CEOs and board directors, as well as in crisis communications and helping to lead Arts Centre Melbourne’s communications response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also written scripts for TV news features and been a college sports journalist and broadcast commentator.
Jesse holds a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in History and Environmental Studies) from Tufts University in Boston, USA.
About Matija
Matija has worked in media, communications, legal and mentoring roles, including as a media adviser and media manager in Australian politics, a copywriter in a full service communications agency, a program manager and lawyer in a refugee NGO, a mentor in an outback indigenous school, and a managing lawyer of a boutique law firm. Matija was also a producer and presenter in community radio for seven years.
A big picture thinker, storyteller and strategist, Matija has held senior media and communications roles in the Australian Greens and worked on the 2016, 2019 and 2022 federal elections, the successful 2017 marriage equality campaign and the 2018 abolition of the “tampon tax”.
Matija holds degrees in Law and Arts (Political Science and French) from the University of Melbourne and is admitted to practice as a lawyer in Australia.
Matija also has a Master Trainer Certificate in Fitness from the Australian Institute of Fitness.
Working with you
No two projects are the same – so we’ll start by chatting with you about the job, what you hope to achieve and how we think we can get there. Matija and Jesse work together or separately depending on your needs.
Our fees
As every job is different, we’ll discuss our fee structure, which can be either a per hour rate or a per job/project rate.
Who we’ve worked with
Get in touch
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Cicada Street acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, and pays respect to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty of First Nations land was never ceded and we commit to working towards Treaty, justice and reconciliation with all First Nations people.