About McCosh Films
Messengers by name.
The story of McCosh Films and the people behind it. McCosh comes from the Gaelic Mac Coise. It means messenger. We inherited the job.
The ones trusted to carry the message.
McCosh is a Scottish and Northern Irish name, anglicized from the Gaelic Mac Coise. It means messenger. Son of the one who carries word from one place to another. The one trusted to deliver what matters safely, and without losing anything along the way.
That meaning came down to us through the family, and we carry it into every job.
Mildred McCosh Rumbley
Mildred kept the porch open.
My grandmother, Mildred McCosh, was a quiet woman. Quiet the way still water is quiet: full underneath, calm on the surface, deeper than it first appears.
She cried when she heard someone was hurting. She felt other people's weight as if it were her own. She cooked every day of her life, even from a wheelchair near the end, because feeding the people she loved was something she would never give up. And she told stories. On the porch, with the whole family gathered, stories about people, about life, about what it all meant and how to carry it.
I grew up listening to her, and somewhere in that listening I fell in love with stories. With the way a story could keep a family on the porch until dark. With the way it could make someone feel less alone.
She passed before she ever got to see what I built with her name. That sits with me every day. I hope she's proud of the work we're doing.
Why we exist
A porch in a noisy world.
We live in a loud, fast world, full of content nobody asked for and nobody remembers. My grandmother's porch is gone. The one where families sat until dark, debating and laughing and solving things together, just by talking. Where nobody was performing for an audience.
I have spent more than thirty years as a journalist and media professional, sitting with people, asking real questions, and listening to what they actually said. What I learned is what Mildred already knew: every person has a story worth telling, and almost nobody is asking to hear it. McCosh Films exists to change that, one conversation and one person at a time.
What we believe
Clarity is power.
We are all just trying to figure life out. Every organization, every leader, every person across the table from us has something to say and someone to reach.
Our job is to help them say it in a way that is true, clear, and worthy of the people hearing it. Good communication is built on empathy, on how we treat one another, and on how well we listen.
We are great listeners, and we bring an abundance of empathy to every project. Listening is the thing we do best. We sit with people until we understand what they mean, not just what they said, whether we are sitting with a city council, a family business or a national brand.
What we do now
A communications firm built by storytellers.
Today that work runs through the McCosh Method, our way of mixing newsroom listening, psychology, storytelling and custom systems. Thirty years across network television, city halls, schools, nonprofits, marinas and national brands taught us how different people listen, and the method carries all of it.
The lead offering
N.I.C.O.L.E. Command
A command and communications system for the teams who carry the message when it matters most.
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North Star
Consulting and advisory for teams, businesses and individuals who want their message clear.
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McCosh Films media
Video, podcasts, graphics and websites, made inside those engagements when the story calls for it.
See the mediaThirty years of listening.
I became a journalist because I believed people deserved to be heard. I became a filmmaker because some truths need more than words to carry them. And I built McCosh Films because I couldn't stop believing that one of the most important things any of us can do is help another person feel seen. This work is personal to me. It always has been.
Thirty years of journalism. Documentary films. Podcasts. Branded content. Broadcast television. Partners have included HGTV, Fox News, Warner Bros. Discovery, VISA, Vogue, Animal Planet, and Spotify. Awards include the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Gabriel Award, and an Emmy nomination.
Every one of those projects started with a person brave enough to tell their story. We made sure the world could hear it.
I'm grateful you're here.
Jason Hensley
Founding President | Executive Producer
