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Patrick Dix joins SHAZAM Network as PR Manager
DES MOINES, IA (April 24, 2015) — The SHAZAM Network today announced the addition of Patrick Dix to the company’s marketing team. Hired as a senior public relations manager, Dix brings 20 years of public relations and writing experience to the member-owned EFT network.
Prior to joining SHAZAM, Dix spent the majority of his career as an anchor of the #1 morning newscast on WHO-HD in Des Moines. During his tenure at the station, he covered five Iowa Caucus cycles, city and county government and countless stories about Iowa weather including two major floods.
Dix has been recognized for outstanding reporting with awards from The Society of Professional Journalists, The William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Midwest Broadcast News Association. In 2012, he began developing and teaching media training courses. The classes focused on how news rooms work, how to get stories on air and how to deal with media in a crisis situation. As PR manager at SHAZAM, he’ll offer similar services to community financial institutions.
Dix holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
About SHAZAM
The SHAZAM Network was founded in 1976 and is one of the last remaining member-owned and -controlled electronic funds transfer (EFT) networks and processors in the industry. SHAZAM provides choice and flexibility to community financial institutions throughout the U.S. SHAZAM is a single-source provider of the following services: debit card, core, fraud, ATM, merchant, marketing, platform, risk and automated clearing house (ACH). To learn more visit shazam.net and follow @SHAZAMNetwork.
Prior to joining SHAZAM, Dix spent the majority of his career as an anchor of the #1 morning newscast on WHO-HD in Des Moines. During his tenure at the station, he covered five Iowa Caucus cycles, city and county government and countless stories about Iowa weather including two major floods.
Dix has been recognized for outstanding reporting with awards from The Society of Professional Journalists, The William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Midwest Broadcast News Association. In 2012, he began developing and teaching media training courses. The classes focused on how news rooms work, how to get stories on air and how to deal with media in a crisis situation. As PR manager at SHAZAM, he’ll offer similar services to community financial institutions.
Dix holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
About SHAZAM
The SHAZAM Network was founded in 1976 and is one of the last remaining member-owned and -controlled electronic funds transfer (EFT) networks and processors in the industry. SHAZAM provides choice and flexibility to community financial institutions throughout the U.S. SHAZAM is a single-source provider of the following services: debit card, core, fraud, ATM, merchant, marketing, platform, risk and automated clearing house (ACH). To learn more visit shazam.net and follow @SHAZAMNetwork.