Joe Pompeo Boards the New York Media Boat
Is this Capital New York headline a tad sarcastic? Maybe. But even if Bjoern Kils isn’t quite “Living the Dream,” he’s still got one of the least desk-chained and highly hourly-compensated gigs on the Manhattan media horizon.
Per Joe Pompeo’s recent field trip, Kils is captain of the New York Media Boat, a Willard Marine Sea Force 7-meter Standard vessel that when not booked for a media gig, ferries sightseers. Media clients have included the Golf Channel, Celebrity Apprentice, MSG Channel and more:
Kils has hosted reporters from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg for a press event touting a solar-powered ship; shuttled CNN to the site of the great JFK jet-ski security breach of 2012; and taken the Chasing New Jersey team on a tour of the Garden State’s ravaged coastline in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Pompeo had no luck getting comment from one of these media customers.
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