Karen Michael Email and Phone Number

As the education reporter since fall of 2014, I have used my interviewing, writing, and fact-finding skills daily. I regularly take photos for use in the newspaper and on social media. Until fall of 2014, I was the sole writer for FrenshipToday.com, a weekly publication by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

I used my writing, interviewing and fact-finding skills daily. Once a week, I also served as the late-night editor, preparing a few pages of stories for the press and copyediting all stories on those pages.

I used writing, interviewing, photography and fact-finding skills daily as a writer for the Carlsbad Current-Argus. I earned second place from the N.M. Press Association Better Newspapers Contest for a Breaking News Story in 2005.

As an investor relations coordinator and administrative assistant, I coordinated distribution of materials such as annual reports and 10-Qs, as well as putting together information for investor conferences. I wrote and edited press releases, edited annual reports, and wrote, edited and produced an internal newsletter. I maintained a database of all investors. As the assistant to the company's VP of finance, I also balanced daily cash on all bank and investment accounts and prepared weekly cash balance reports for corporate officers. Additionally, I learned Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Cold Fusion software to redesign and maintain the corporate website. I used these skills to continue maintaining the website after my official departure as a contractor from May to December of 2003.