Career
Thomas Madden received a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Temple University in 1962. In 1964, he moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and began working as a reporter at The Press of Atlantic City. In 1966, Madden and his family relocated to Philadelphia where he became a reporter and feature writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
After receiving an Master of Arts from the Annenberg School of Communications at The University of Pennsylvania in 1970 while working the night shift as a reporter, Mr.
Madden taught journalism part-time at Rutgers University before moving his family to New Orleans in late 1970, where he became an assistant professor of journalism at Loyola University. In 1974, Madden left college teaching, moved his family back to the Northeast and took a position with the well-known public relations firm Dudley Anderson Yutzy (now Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations Group) in Manhattan, where he worked on the firm"s largest accounts, including Kellogg"s of Battle Creek, Michigan, writing speeches for the company"s then Chief Executive Officer, William LaMothe, which were printed in The New York Times and Vital Speeches of the Day.
In 1977, Mr. Madden joined American Broadcasting Company as Director of Public Relations Planning.
Silverman appointed Madden to Vice President, Assistant to the President. Madden worked at National Broadcasting Company in both executive administration and programming before leaving and starting TransMedia Consultants, Incorporated., in 1981, which became a boutique Puerto Rico agency in Manhattan, serving such clients as American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Met Life, and The City of New New York
The firm’s clients have included American Telephone & Telegraph Company, American Red Cross, City of New York, GL Homes, Jordache Enterprises, McCormick and Schmick"s, Rexall Sundown and Stanley Steemer.
