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- About -
Sid Balman Jr.; Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Prior to founding the Balman Group, Sid Balman Jr. served four years as the director of strategic
communications and senior advisor to the CEO of InterAction, the largest American alliance of overseas
humanitarian groups. His responsibilities included supervision of publishing, media relations, on-line
products, video production, policy, advocacy and campaigns. Balman, who won the Aegis and Videographer
awards for a documentary on humanitarian work during wartime, was a visiting professor at American University
before joining InterAction and a founder of an Internet-based, international multi-media news syndicate that reported
on issues of interest to women and girls. During most of the 1990s, Balman was the senior diplomatic and national
security correspondent for United Press International. Based in Washington, he traveled for almost a decade with
presidents and secretaries of state on overseas diplomatic missions and led coverage of most major international
stories, including wars in the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. Balman also served as
UPI's representative on the Pentagon's national press pool. Balman, who has been nominated for several reporting
awards, joined UPI after covering a broad range of military affairs for Army Times Publishing, which produced Air
Force Times, Defense News, Navy Times and Army Times. His journalism career began with the Dallas Times Herald,
where he covered crime in Dallas and the federal government in Washington. Balman, who was raised in Texas,
graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in English and subsequently earned a masters degree in
journalism and public affairs from American University.
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