Justin Duckham

Storytelling & Strategy

United States

I'm a DC-based writer, content marketer, and creative strategist with over a decade of experience crafting narratives that hook audiences.

Quick Stats:

• Former journalist skilled in research, editing, and delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines.

• Recent experience includes developing copy, content, and strategy for Rad Power Bikes, Exploding Kittens, and Scott Galloway's Section School.

• An AI optimist with hands-on experience building chatbots, engineering prompts, and training LLMs for tone and voice.

• Recipient of the National Press Club Award for Humor Writing.

Contact:

JustinJDuckham@gmail.com

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Sleep Doctor / Sleep Foundation
11/21/2023
Welcome to the Test Lab

Welcome to the one place in America where you won’t get in trouble for sleeping on the job.

Rad Power Bikes Blog

Rad Power Bikes
Tech-Savvy Filmmakers Turn To Ebikes

Being a filmmaker on a budget can be tough, especially if you're trying to capture awesome action shots that don't look like they were taken with a camcorder in a bounce house.

Rad Power Bikes
A Different Kind of Mission Statement

Rad Power Bikes unveiled a different kind of electric bike today: a single-speed marvel that's just $999 -- the ebike heavyweight's most affordable price point to date. It's called the RadMission, and for the past three months, Rad Power Bikes Founder and CEO, Mike Radenbaugh, has been joyriding the electric metro bike all over Seattle.

Rad Power Bikes
A Rad Mom Deserves A Rad Mother's Day Card

Do you have a Rad mom in your life? There's probably a lot of things she'd like on Mother's Day. Maybe she wants to go on a fun Sunday ride. Or enjoy a nice, homemade breakfast in bed. Maybe even breakfast in bed and then a ride. (Hey, it's her day!)

Rad Power Bikes
Amid COVID-19, Delivering Meals With a Side of Hope

With over 47,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of March 31, New York City is at the heart of the nationwide coronavirus crisis. Doctors, nurses, and a slew of other healthcare responders are working around the clock to help contain a pandemic, risking everything to stay on the frontlines.

Section School Blog

Section4
Having morale issues? Try telling better stories

In 2008, newly-minted Skype CEO Josh Silverman had a problem. Sluggish growth at Skype had caused his team's morale to take a nosedive. This was a problem in itself, but it also threatened to derail his plan to launch a groundbreaking new feature: full-screen video calls.

Section4
Can't stop checking your favorite app? Here's why.

Have you ever been bored and caught yourself checking Instagram just seconds after you closed it? I'm sure you didn't reopen it because you had an overwhelming urge to see more pics of your college roommate's lunch. You did it without thinking, like it was second nature.

Out-of-Home and Retail Signage

The National Press Club

National Press Club
12/08/2022
CNN's Clarissa Ward, called 'nothing short of a hero,' honored with Club's Fourth Estate Award

While CNN viewers are used to seeing Clarissa Ward reporting from war zones, natural disasters, and other tense situations, the network's chief foreign correspondent made an appearance Wednesday evening in decidedly friendlier territory: the National Press Club Ballroom. CNN Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward delivers remarks after receiving the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award Wednesday.

National Press Club
09/14/2022
NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls on press to hold gun industry accountable

New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on the media to apply more scrutiny to the firearm industry during an appearance Tuesday at the National Press Club. "On behalf of every mayor, every victim of gun violence, and every American, I'm asking for your help to expose the gun industry in this country for what it truly is: a betrayal of American values and American freedom," he said at a Club Newsmakers event.

National Press Club
10/28/2020
Vaccination hesitation could cause pandemic to linger

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins warned a virtual National Press Club audience on Oct. 23 that U.S. efforts to eradicate COVID-19 could be significantly delayed if large portions of the American public refuse an eventual vaccine.

National Press Club
08/29/2017
NAACP president says White House creates atmosphere for domestic terrorism

Derrick Johnson, interim president of the NAACP, said Aug. 29 the Trump White House was responsible for the conditions that led to this month's deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. "Unfortunately, this administration has created an atmosphere that has allowed domestic terrorists to exist," Johnson said at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon.

National Press Club
04/16/2012
Club draws in top cartoonist Daryl Cagle

Plenty has been written about the trouble skyrocketing gas prices may pose to the White House, but MSNBC editorial cartoonist and new National Press Club member Daryl Cagle sums the topic up with no words whatsoever. Drawn in thick black lines, Cagle's latest piece shows Obama, complete with exaggerated ears and a pronounced chin, looking warily over his shoulder.

Mediaite

Mediaite
05/07/2019
Anti-Jacob Wohl Protest Tied to His Own Email Address

Conservative activist Jack Burkman tweeted Tuesday morning that he's expecting "hundreds of leftist protestors" to gather outside an upcoming press conference he'll be holding with fellow far-right troll Jacob Wohl. Hundreds of leftist protestors are set to descend on our Wednesday Press conference We WILL NOT surrender to the mob!

Mediaite
09/30/2018
After Beto, Who Will be the Next Punk Rock Lawmaker?

Illustrations by Garth von Ahnen Beto O'Rourke was a punk rocker. If you didn't know that by now, then you haven't read any of the many profiles penned on Texas' Democratic Senatorial candidate. While his state's Republican party has tried to turn that factoid into a slam, it clearly hasn't been working.