David Randal Allen

David Randal Allen has worked with audio, video, and digital technologies to store and transmit radio and television news programming since the late 1960s. For most of the last 30 years, Mr. Allen has worked as a news producer and reporter (assigned to cover Capitol Hill, the State Department, and the White House). He has also been an editor, news director, and managing editor for wire services, television, and radio news operations including the Associated Press, NBC Radio Network, and Standard News. He is currently vice president of The Communications Office, Inc., a consultancy providing communication services for information, library, and a variety of corporate and non-profit clients. Mr. Allen served two terms as secretary of the National Press Club. ---from p. iv of Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries.