About

We believe the most powerful narratives aren’t polished into submission — they’re sharpened with intent.

The founder

Connor Doyle

I grew up in Birmingham, went to Eton, got a full scholarship to Harvard, and spent seven years at Microsoft. Before all of that, I trained as a professional actor on the West End.

The throughline — the thing that connects theater to communications to what I do now — is that the same words, expressed differently, produce completely different responses. That’s not a trick. That’s craft.

At Microsoft, I worked in the CMO organization on executive communications: town halls, presentation frameworks, LinkedIn strategy, video content, internal messaging. The work was making complex thinking legible — at scale, under pressure, with a lot riding on it.

Mischief of Media is the same work, applied to tech executives who have real things to say and need a partner who can help them say it.

The philosophy

“The ideas are yours. The voice is yours. What we add is craft.”

When a president gives a State of the Union, they didn’t draft it alone. The thinking is theirs. The communication is a collaboration. We work the same way.

“AI hooks are 16× more common. Genuine ones are worth 16× more.”

LinkedIn’s algorithm actively detects and deprioritizes AI-generated content. Your audience is already ahead of it. We write the originals.

“Communicating uncertainty is an act of bravery, not weakness.”

The executives who build genuine followings are the ones willing to take a position. We help you find it and own it.

What we stand for

Precision

Every word matters. Every visual choice is deliberate. We don’t decorate — we communicate with surgical clarity.

Provocation

Good communications should make people feel something. Our work carries an edge — playful but never frivolous, bold but never reckless.

Texture

We embrace the specific over the general, the particular over the polished. Real work feels real because it is.

Words are the original networking technology.

Let’s work together