Paul Roszkowski

Crisis communications leader for entertainment and media. Twelve years as the U.S. Coast Guard's entertainment liaison in Los Angeles; before that, public information on major federal emergencies.

Coast Guard liaison for Jack Ryan (Prime Video)

About Paul

I walked into a Chicago-area recruiting office in 1998, saw a magazine article about the Coast Guard's Motion Picture Office, and told the recruiter that was the job I wanted. He told me that is not how it works. It took sixteen years, but I got there.

Entertainment liaison, Los Angeles (2014 to 2026)

As Assistant Director of the U.S. Coast Guard Motion Picture & Television Office, I managed productions from first request and script review through on-set support, post-production review and release. I negotiated production and author agreements, wrote writers'-room briefing books for NCIS: New Orleans and NCIS: Hawai'i, and spoke on the record for entertainment press inquiries. I negotiated separate access arrangements for the Netflix and BBC/Discovery Titan documentaries during an active Marine Board of Investigation, and served as agency lead, technical advisor and contributing producer on Paratus, the PBS documentary that won a 2026 Southeast Emmy Award.

I built creator partnerships with Smarter Every Day and Sam Eckholm, with additional digital projects including MrBeast, Google Year in Search and VICE. I represented the Coast Guard at E3 from 2015 through 2019 and provided technical guidance on Call of Duty, The Division 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, World of Warships and EmergencyDispatcherPro. I also ran the office's author program, working with writers and publishers including HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House.

Crisis communications (2000 to 2014)

I served as Joint Information Center director and PIO for the Paulsboro, NJ train derailment, assistant PIO in the Houma JIC during Deepwater Horizon, and led the Hurricane Sandy pollution-response media and community communications plan. Earlier I ran public affairs offices in Seattle, Kodiak and Chicago, and launched the Coast Guard's first use of Twitter on an active search-and-rescue case. I am a FEMA Type 1 Public Information Officer and PIO instructor, and I helped modernize the service's risk-communication training for responders.

What I'm looking for

Communications, publicity and partnership roles in entertainment, media and gaming, where the press moves fast and judgment matters.

Recognition (selected)

  • 2026 Southeast Emmy Award, contributing producer, Paratus (Alabama PBS)
  • Meritorious Service Medal
  • Meritorious Team Commendations: Titan Marine Board of Investigation Public Affairs Team; Hurricane Sandy Public Affairs Response; Cascadia Rising exercise planning; Tough As Nails filming team
  • Commandant's Letters of Commendation, including Deepwater Horizon JIC support and the Hurricane Sandy response
  • Coast Guard Commendation Medal (two awards)

Screen credits

90 credits on IMDb as Coast Guard liaison and technical advisor. Selected:

Feature films: Dunkirk, Top Gun: Maverick, Spider-Man: Homecoming, A Quiet Place Part II, Deepwater Horizon, The Finest Hours, Finestkind, My Blind Brother, Mary

Scripted series: NCIS: New Orleans (19 episodes), NCIS: Hawai'i (15), NCIS, Outer Banks, The Waterfront, Widow's Bay, The Perfect Couple, Jack Ryan, Ray Donovan, Hawaii Five-0, 9-1-1, CSI: Cyber

Documentary and unscripted: Deadliest Catch (218 episodes), Bering Sea Gold (139), Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, Paratus: A 20th Anniversary Special, Nova, Sharkwater Extinction, Contraband: Seized at Sea, Tough As Nails, MasterChef, Hell's Kitchen, American Ninja Warrior

Games: Call of Duty (Activision), The Division 2 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Ubisoft), World of Warships (Wargaming), EmergencyDispatcherPro for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Speaking (selected)

marcus evans Energy Crisis Communications Conference, Houston (2012); Oil & Gas Business Continuity & Emergency Management conference, Houston (2013, Paulsboro case study); American Copy Editors Society national conference panel (2003); IATSE Motion Picture Costumers Guild Local 705 (2025).

Education and training

Department of Defense Joint Course in Communication, University of Oklahoma; Defense Information School (journalism, intermediate public affairs, Joint Public Affairs Supervisor); CDC Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication train-the-trainer; co-author, peer-reviewed study in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (2006). Admitted to Thomas Edison State University (2026).

“Get out there, find those stories, and tell our history.”

From my Coast Guard retirement remarks