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Scott Widmeyer is the founder of Widmeyer Communications, now a Finn Partners company, and host of NPR Nantucket's Cross Currents with Scott Widmeyer.

Career
He began his career as a public affairs reporter for the Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper Charleston Daily Mail. There, he covered legal issues around the ‘textbook wars’ in Southern West Virginia and the indictment of then-governor Arch A. Moore Jr.

Widmeyer went on to serve as West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller’s Press Secretary from 1976-1979. He then worked as the Deputy National Press Secretary for the Carter/Mondale Presidential Reelection, where he managed the Washington press operation and New York convention efforts.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/07/16/no-party-token/5ef66275-fee9-47a7-be3a-269cd9c1ebf9/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.79141a0f0979 |website=The Washington post |publisher=The Washington Post |accessdate=6/28/18}} During the general election, he worked in Ohio as the State Press Director. When Mondale decided to run for president, Widmeyer returned as the deputy national press secretary, and then as vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro’s chief spokesman and press aide.

For five years, he served as the Director of Communications for the American Federation of Teachers under President Albert Shanker. Afterwards, he worked as the Vice President of Ogilvy Public Relations, running campaigns for March of Dimes, Centers for Disease Control, and the American Federation of Teachers.

He founded his own firm, Widmeyer Communications, in 1988, and in 2012 the firm was selected by PR Week and PR Council as top Diversity Firm in the US. Widmeyer Communcations worked for organizations such as Princeton University, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca Cola, ExxonMobil, US Chamber of Commerce, WK Kellogg Foundation and Ford Motors. In 2013, total billings were $12 million, and the company was sold to Finn Partners. Today, Widmeyer serves as a Founding Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Finn Partners, created the adult coloring book A Walk Around Nantucket, and hosts the NPR Nantucket public affairs radio show Cross Currents.