Court Stroud

Court Stroud is a professor, writer, and media strategy consultant who has worked at Univision, Telemundo, Azteca, CBS Digital, and several startups. Founder of consulting practice The Cledor Group, he has helped companies such as Comcast, NBCU (NBC, Telemundo, NBC Sports), Sony Entertainment Pictures, and BBC Studios navigate today’s tumultuous media landscape in traditional and digital media.

Stroud now serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Integrated Marketing at NYU, where he teaches courses like “Integrated Marketing” and “Campaign I.” During his time as an adjunct faculty member at NYU, Columbia, The New School, and his beloved alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, Stroud designed and co-designed undergraduate, graduate, and pre-college courses including “Innovations in Marketing: Diversity in US Media & Advertising,” “Selling Your Pitch: Essentials of the Business of Television,” “Social Issues in Advertising and Public Relations in New York City,” “Programmatic Media & Marketing,” and “Digital Media & Advertising.” In addition, he co-created a course about the fundamentals of digital advertising certified by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). 

Court’s byline appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Forbes, where he was for nearly 8 years a contributing writer. He is a member of ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors), the NWU (National Writers’ Union), and NLGJA (Association of LGBTQ Journalists). The San Antonio, Texas native received a 2019 New York Press Association First Place Award, a 2021 New York Foundation for the Artist (NYFA) City Artist Corp Grant, was honored with a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellowship, and in 2022 won ASJA’s “The Arlenes: Articles That Make a Difference” award.

Stroud holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.