MARK MICHELI
21 Park Street
Malden, Mass. 02148
781 321 7624
mmicheli1@comcast.net
OBJECTIVE
To use my editorial management and online skills, along with my sound news judgment, to help create and build breakthrough news and information services.
EXPERIENCE
Patch.com, Boston, Mass.
Regional Editor for Boston, June, 2010 – Present
Duties and accomplishments include:
- Launched a dozen local community news and information websites in a six-month period. This involved recruiting and hiring 12 editors for the websites covering Boston’s South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill and Charlestown neighborhoods as well as Somerville, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, Woburn, Wakefield and Reading.
- Manage a staff of a dozen news professionals to provide breaking news coverage on a 24/7 schedule. Analyze traffic data to help local editors make the best decision to boost traffic and user engagement.
Online Editorial Specialist, Boston, Mass.
March 2009 – June, 2010
Helped organize and plan the successful launch of the Book of Odds website in the fall of 2009, which was praised in the Boston Globe, New York Times and Wall Street Journal as well as won a 2009 Emerging Media Award from Summit International for “best new product/service website.”
Conceived and created several websites and mobile sites for clients and for fun, including the lifestyle blog, RootsLiving.com.
Boston.com, Boston, Mass.
Homepage News Editor, Nov. 2003 – April 2009
Duties and accomplishments include:
- Led a 24/7 online news team to cover the top news stories in New England and the nation, growing traffic to record levels which averaged more than 6 million unique visitors per month.
- Broke new ground in online content creation while orchestrating breaking news coverage using photo galleries, audio slideshows, message boards, chats, maps, videos, surveys and other interactive features.
- Improved breaking news coverage by guiding and encouraging veteran newspaper journalists to use their talents online.
- Designed and implemented the company’s first training program to transition newspaper editors from print to online.
- Successfully fulfilled a company mandate to increase video on the site by supplying news producers with easy-to-use, online-ready, video cameras and by creating some of the first, short, news videos for the site using those cameras.
- Increased traffic by using best online practices and following search engine optimization strategies.
Emerson College, Boston, Mass.
Instructor, summer semester, 2005
Taught “Interactive News” class to journalism graduate students.Created a syllabus from scratch that included discussions on the evolution of online news as well as the practicality of building and maintaining a news website as a team.
Boston Business Journal, Boston, Mass.
Reporter, Jan. 2001 – Nov. 2003
Researched and wrote articles on a variety of business topics. Helped improve the small business section by writing about the human drama behind entrepreneurship. Created and launched the newspaper’s first regular feature on residential real estate. Routinely interviewed on AM morning radio show about business issues.
Lycos, Waltham, Mass.
Senior Producer, Jan. 1999 – Jan. 2001
Helped redesign, refocus and expand the small business and real estate web guides. Identified key content, helped negotiate multi-million dollar deals with outside partners and planned integration of content into the Lycos.com portal.
InStream PsychLink, Burlington, Mass.
Editorial Director, Nov. 1996 – Nov. 1998
Created and built a world class news and information service for mental health professionals called, ”PsychLink.” Worked with an engineer and designer to create and launch PsychLink within a three-month period, on time and under budget. Negotiated contracts with various niche publishers, including Reuters Medical News.
AT&T New Media Services, Cambridge, Mass.
Online News Editor, Sept. 1995 – Nov. 1996
Worked with a small editorial team to create and launch what is sometimes referred to as the world’s first group blog, called “Lead Story.”
Wrote for and edited this critically-acclaimed and award-winning news site which was praised in a U.S. News and World Reports cover story on the eight best places to visit on the web.
Also updated the news, business and front pages of the Interchange Online Network, an experimental project during the web’s infancy.
Community Newspaper Company, Needham, Mass.
Managing Editor, 1992 – 1995
Responsible for guiding and editing all editorial content for four weekly newspapers. Worked closely with reporters on developing and writing news stories, and with photographers and designers on photographs and graphics. Newspapers won numerous awards from the New England Press Association, including one for investigative reporting on the notorious Fells Acres Day Care child molestation case.
Providence Business News and newspapers in Greater Boston
Worked my way up from general assignment reporter to editor at various local daily and weekly newspapers in the Greater Boston area before becoming managing editor of Providence Business News in Rhode Island. Directly managed teams of writers, editors and photographers to produce award-winning work at these publications. As a reporter I covered several beats, including police and fire departments, city government, state government, and the computer, health care, and environmental industries.
EDUCATION
Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.
B.S. Journalism/Minor in Marketing.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
HTML; WordPress; Adobe Photoshop; iPhoto; iMovie; various off-the-shelf and customized content management systems and tools; Quark-XPress; Microsoft Word/Office/PowerPoint/Excel etc.