Welcome to AZ Media Maven, a public relations and marketing company in Laveen, AZ, specializing in providing marketing strategies to small and mid-sized businesses. Media Maven will create and manage corporate accounts for your business on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and other social media outlets while integrating social media into your overall plans to grow and expand your business.
Owner Rose Tring is an experienced editor and writer with a background in print journalism, social media and content production for the Web. Posts and articles written by AZ Media Maven target demographics for your business, ensuring content is relevant, timely and engaging. Media Maven will help your business build an online community to grow brand awareness, while building relationships with local, regional and national publications to showcase your services and products.
Tring is a longtime print journalist with more than 25 years media experience. A graduate of Marshall University in West Virginia, Tring began her career working for publications throughout the Eastern United States. She earned awards in North Carolina for her coverage of mental health issues. She also received a first-place business reporting award from the Indiana Press Association for her coverage of a plant closure and its impact on residents in the small Tennessee town where it was located.
She moved to the West Coast in the early 1990s, working at daily newspapers in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix. During her tenure in LA, Tring assisted in coverage of the OJ Simpson trial and its verdict, the Malibu Canyon brush fires and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. In Las Vegas, Tring was an assistant city editor overseeing the coverage of the Ted Binion murder and subsequent trial. She was part of the editing team for a Pulitzer Prize finalist article about Dr. Kevorkian and a local woman seeking his services.
Closer to home, Tring held a number of editing positions including assistant business editor and senior editor at The Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper. With over a decade of dedication at the Gannett-owned newspaper, she worked in multiple departments at the Republic including both the East and West valley offices, and the city and business desks. Tring also served as a web producer in art and entertainment news for the state’s leading online news source, azcentral.com.