CompuMedia Business Services

Background

CompuMedia Business Services was founded in 1986. Since then, the company has provided top-quality editorial, résumé, computer, media and public relations services to a wide variety of clients in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region and throughout the country.

Management

CompuMedia Business Services is owned and managed by Ken Reigner. He has 38 years of experience in writing, editing, journalism, public relations and job search consulting.

His background includes many years as a press secretary in the United States Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, extensive governmental, political and campaign experience and a background in environmental conservation and marketing.

Reigner is currently serving his second term as president of Washington Independent Writers (WIW), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, professional association of more than 1,400 writers, editors and journalists, which was founded in 1975. WIW is the nation’s largest regional writers’ organization. Previously he was elected the organization’s vice president.

As president, Reigner has led a reform movement to reinvigorate WIW. He has emphasized increased services as well as professional development, communications and social activities for WIW members, while promoting greater diversity among the membership.

When Reigner was first elected to the WIW board of directors in 1997, he was named chairman of the WIW Technology Committee. In that position, he organized annual Technology Conferences at Washington’s University Club.

He has advised WIW on high-tech issues and chaired technology panels at WIW’s annual Washington Writers Conference at the National Press Club in Washington.

He also founded and manages three WIW Internet-based Listserv e-mail lists to distribute Job Bank postings to members and promote greater communication among writers, editors and journalists throughout the United States and around the world.

In 2000, he received the Philip M. Stern Award, WIW’s highest honor, “for his exceptional service in bringing WIW into the Electronic Age.” The award is named for the investigative journalist, author and early benefactor and founder of WIW.

Reigner's professional memberships have also included Mensa and the Professional Association of Résumé Writers.