Mike Biglin Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Copy editor on night Sports desk; for print and web productions.

Bensalem, Pennsylvania, United States

Write articles for HGP Alumni Magazine, as well as any other assignments from the Director of Communications.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Researched, reported and wrote posts for Salary.com's website, mainly concerning different types of hiring practices and rules/regulations. Contract was cut short due to management decisions to outsource the work elsewhere.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Main writer and newsletter editor for one of Melwood's main clients, The Transportation Alliance. Created, compiled and posted daily newsletter with top headlines from the for-hire transportation industry. Reported, researched and wrote articles for monthly newsletter, relating to topics concerning TTA members/industry.Was also part of multifaceted team supporting $1 million grant project that TTA was given by MassDevelopment for the aid/support of for-hire companies in Massachusetts, which included 17 different deliverables over a two-year span.Also took part in weekly strategy sessions with TTA CEO Alfred LaGasse on projects/initiatives.

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Ghost-wrote blog posts for Progress.come, which included Q&A interviews with excelling Progress employees, as well as other features -- one was including a Great Eight of Female Scientific Trailblazers for Women's History Month. Contract was cut short due to Management's decision to eliminate freelance budget and produce all copy in-house.

Wrote, on average, 3-5 sports stories per week for local weekly publications - including the Needham Times, Wellesley Townsman, Dedham Transcript, Norwood Bulletin, Walpole Times, Westwood Press, Medfield Press and the Wayland, Weston and Sudbury Town Criers. Team reports, game coverage and feature stories on local athletes/teams for their hometown newspapers.

Boston, Ma

Full-time editor on the nightly sports desk, editing staff-generated content on tight deadlines for production, as well as compiling reports from wire copy. Some layout responsibilities, creating and producing pages for the section on deadline when assigned. Also mentor young writers - specifically on the high school desk - to help hone their skills, improve their work.

Framingham, Ma

Rose up from Local Sports Editor to Deputy Sports Editor to Executive Sports Editor of the MetroWest and Milford Daily News, a 30,000 daily/40,000 Sunday circulation suburban newspaper outside of Boston. Oversaw all story budgeting, staffing and management duties running the department. As well as game coverage and reporting, mainly of local/high school sports, but also beat coverage of MLS side New England Revolution, and on-site coverage of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.Awards: 2003 Central Mass. Soccer Coaches Association Media Award; Framingham High boys hockey team's Dave Hutchinson Award for meritorious service to the Flyers program; 2004 Eastern Mass. Soccer Coaches Association Award; Two Gatehouse Media "Above & Beyond" Awards: For work on Patriots preseason/High School Football preseason special sections (deadlines one week apart), and Red Sox Commemorative 2007 World Championship special section.

Needham, Ma

First hired as local sports editor to launch Boston-area initiative for Web site of Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV Channel 5, covering high school sports. Responsible for standings, schedules and weekly coverage of Eastern Mass. football, over 220 schools encompassing 24 leagues over six divisions, as well overseeing staff of freelancers to cover games. Five months in, that project was terminated, and was reassigned as national night sports editor, populating and editing stories for the entire IBS network of over 50 local television affiliate sites across North America. Responsible for nightly coverage of all major sports, which included commentary on events like The Masters, World Cup soccer qualifying, MLS Playoffs and the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Worked on special projects like online quizzes, info-graphics and stories to populate sites. Also covered the 2000 MLS Cup for the Kansas City site on the network.

Framingham, Ma

Was promoted to head of newspaper chain, to head local sports coverage for the seven-day daily. Was main beat writer for local sports, writing weekly notebook pieces as well as choosing year-end scholastic All-Star teams. Directed coverage of 30-town, 40-school area, with multiple deadlines (morning as well as afternoon).

Needham, Ma; Sharon, Ma

Served as staff writer for first year, then was named sports editor of five-day, 7,000 circulation daily newspaper for the final 3.5 years of my term. Managed two-person staff and group of part-time freelancers in local sports coverage of five-town, eight-school coverage area. Assigned all stories, as well as edited and composed section on nightly basis, and oversaw coverage for two weekly newspapers as well - the West Roxbury/Parkway Transcript, and the Needham TAB.

Springfield, Pa

Reporter for the former weekly "Neighbor Sports" suburban section of the Inquirer, covering local high schools. Wrote game coverage, features as well as weekly notebook columns on specific sports. Over tenure, section became five days a week, offering enhanced coverage under stricter nightly deadlines. Received 1993 Philadelphia Tennis Association Media Award for coverage of Pennsylvania Girls State Tennis championships.

Boston, Ma

On Co-Operative work assignment, was editorial assistant (answering phones, completing projects assigned by editors during day) and then high school correspondent for the 1991-92 academic year for biggest daily sports section in New England, covering all sports. Lead reporter during 1991 MIAA State Boys Ice Hockey tournament. Also helped create weekly Eastern Mass. Top 20 Polls in both football and hockey, and helped select/write year-end All-Scholastic teams.