Andy Hermann Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Current shows: American History Tellers, Against the Odds. Previous: American Innovations, Imagined Life.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Contributing writer to such hit podcasts as American Scandal, Business Wars, American Innovations, and Imagined Life. Co-writer/co-producer of the limited series Jacked: Rise of the New Jack Sound.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Publications include: Billboard, DJ Mag, Downbeat, FLOOD, Gigwise, Insomniac, the L.A. Times, Los Angeles magazine, Mixmag, Native Instruments, Noisey, NPR Music, Rolling Stone and WeTransfer's WePresent.

Culver City, Ca

-Oversaw all music-related content for nation's most widely read alternative newsweekly.-Wrote five cover stories and hundreds of articles, including profiles of Tom Morello, Anderson .Paak, Billy Idol, Moby and Gary Richards. -Assigned, edited and published 15+ online and print articles per week from a pool of over 50 freelance writers and contributors. Managed editorial budget, tracked engagement and page view performance using Google Analytics and ChartBeat, worked with EIC to adjust content strategies accordingly.-Managed five-person team for LA Weekly's annual in-depth Coachella coverage.-Grew LA Weekly Music's social media followings by over 20 percent.-Won 2016 AAN Award for music writing. Also edited stories that won 2 AAN Awards and 4 L.A. Press Club Awards.

Culver City, Ca

Promoted to Contributing Editor in 2014, curating, assigning and editing the weekly live music picks for both print and online. Also occasionally fill in for Music Editor, copyediting and publishing features, columns and blog posts, as well as posting to LA Weekly Music's social media accounts (Twitter: 28,000+ followers; Facebook: 10,000+ likes).

Greater Los Angeles Area

Write feature stories, lists and short pieces covering music, mass media, bicycle culture, technology, food and drink, and more.• Contributed multiple pieces to the 2013 People and Best of LA issues.• Multiple pieces syndicated to other Village Voice Media publications, including SF Weekly, Dallas Observer and the Village Voice.Note: I've been a freelance writer for a variety of companies and publications since 1997. Here's a partial list of credits:• Goldstar• ChinaShop• Popdose• XLR8R• BPM Magazine• Concord Music Group• PopMatters• Boston Phoenix• Microsoft• Weirdest Band in the World (founder/editor-in-chief)Samples and clips available at http://andyhermann.com/

Greater Los Angeles Area

Glendale, Ca

• Produce new content packages, site updates and redesigns for award-winning e-commerce sites serving Disney’s flagship family destinations, including Disneyland.com, DisneyWorld.com and Aulani.com.• Collaborated with cross-functional team on the redesign of DisneyParks.com, the global marketing site for all Walt Disney Parks & Resorts properties and home of the Disney Parks Blog.• Project managed successful completion of FY13 “Limited Time Magic” campaign, a high-visibility promotion run simultaneously in both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, with inputs from nearly every major Disney business unit (film studios, merchandise, park operations, etc.) and an annual online budget of $75,000.• Successfully completed over 700 site change requests since date of hire, coordinating daily with key stakeholders across multiple departments and business units, including resort partners, copywriting and media teams, web developers, SEO analysts, product managers, global marketing, legal and corporate.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developed and edited all music-related content across a Gannett/Tribune-backed national network of 64 entertainment websites, serving 3.5 million monthly unique visitors in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other top DMAs.• Drove expansion of music coverage into more than 50 additional markets, increasing music channel traffic from 2.2 million page views in 2007 to 46.5 million page views in 2011.• Produced over 2,000 content pieces including artist interviews, photo galleries, behind-the-scenes videos, album reviews, breaking news, best-of lists, award show coverage and more. Maintained editorial calendars and spreadsheets; tracked freelancer budgets; coordinated with local producers to syndicate content nationally.• Delivered creative, innovative content that spearheaded consistent improvements in music channel traffic year-over-year from 2007 to 2010, from 4% to 9.2% of overall site traffic.• Recruited, hired and supervised a national freelance creative team (writers, photographers, videographers) whose work has also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Paste and NPR Music, among other outlets.• Created Omniture reports to track content performance and adjust strategies accordingly; collaborated with in-house SEO specialist to optimize headlines, subheads, keywords and copy.• Inaugurated National Entertainment Producer role by establishing editorial and programming guidelines and best practices, as well as creating all documentation related to position.• Wrote and produced some of Metromix’s most successful content pieces, including "America's Best Live Music Venues," "American Idols: Where Are They Now?" and our annual "Best Songs" and "Biggest Flops" lists.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Created, organized and updated content for a music-focused entertainment and e-commerce website serving over 9 million monthly unique visitors.• Wrote news stories, album reviews, artist profiles and other feature content; supervised and copyedited team of 8 freelance writers, editorial interns and an Associate Editor.• Implemented all editorial aspects of a site redesign that resulted in a 116% increase in site traffic post-launch.• Redesigned, wrote and produced weekly email newsletter serving 600,000 subscribers, witnessing a 53% increase in click-through rate in the 12 months following redesign launch.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Edited, updated and maintained all written content for a Webby-nominated luxury travel website, serving over 5 million visitors annually.• Wrote keyword-optimized homepage content, headlines, weekly email newsletter and other special content.• Supervised team of eight freelancer writers; assigned and edited projects; tracked invoices.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Served as Music, Nightlife and Sports/Recreation Editor for AOL's Los Angeles online local entertainment guide; also served as City Editor responsible for all content on AOL's Denver, St. Louis and Orange County sites among others.• Improved city sites with low traffic by hiring and training new writers and photographers to build out content.• Member of team that launched the shopping guide in 2001; assigned, fact-checked, copyedited and data-entered hundreds of new store reviews and listings.• Wrote 60+ section front blurbs per week.