Michael Harris Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Managing Editor for the Longboat Key and Sarasota ObserverOrganized daily coverage for Hurricanes Helene and Milton

Oldsmar, Florida, United States

Sales Specialist for Healthcare InsuranceExceeded sales goals during Annual Enrollment Period by 137%Was No.2 in the company in Sales for 4 of the last 6 months

Tampa, Florida, United States

Copywriter of Restaurant and Retail blogs focusing on point-of-salesystems.Editor of marketing deliverables, content and emailsWriter/editor of web page redesign of Madmobile.com - September 2021Writer of Retail Trends 2022 eBook

Orlando, Florida Area And Manizales, Colombia

Responsible for blog posts related to company ventures. Editing of company material, such as website, product releases and sales documents

Aiken, South Carolina

Oversee staff of 14 in the newsroom of all departments, news, features and sports.Oversee digital production, social media, multimedia for online as well as production of the newspaper product.Lead communicator in the public eye at events and functions around Aiken County.Responsible of all content for one weekly as two monthly products in addition to the daily Aiken Standard and Aikenstandard.com

Fort Myers, Florida Area

• Oversees digital production, visuals and breaking news staff of 12 for News-Press.com as well as story placement, rank and news judgment of the content management system Presto.• Utilizes metric readings through Omniture and Chartbeat to determine what gains page views, the highest and most popular times of the day and what is needed to follow up.• Continuous use of social media through sites and delivering breaking news alerts directly to mobile platforms.• Budgeting a daily digital schedule and day parting through Gannett’s Office 365 to set digital deadlines throughout the day.• Determines placement of stories for 1A, 3A and sports front of the print product.• NEWSGATE Innovator: Learned a full knowledge of the CCI Newsgate system and have created unique searches for team members and I have created “group” team lists unique to each news department saving time when creating story folders. The News-Press is the only media outlet in all of Gannett with this feature.• Ability to post, edit and incorporate video to the Presto system from Newsgate or directly into Presto.

• Manager and editor of four staff writers covering Bonita Springs, Estero and Metro Collier County/North Naples. The staff produces newsprint stories, online updates, produce videos and Twitter updates.• Editor of Coastal Life magazine, a weekly lifestyle supplement to the News-Press.• Instructing young staff the importance establishing a foothold of watchdog journalism and consistently beating the competition in the highly competitive area of South Lee and North Collier counties. Results show in two years the staff beats the competition more than 90 percent of the time.• Overseeing writing and reporting projects such as a two-day package on Florida’s texting and driving law produced in Sept. 2013.• Continuous coaching of writers from concept to reporting to finished product to social media display. One example was a story assigned to a writer where the writer covered a robbery of a Bonita Beach restaurant. The unique oddity of the story was a “Only in Florida” story where the burglars only stole – burgers. And they were naked. A couple editors said it would be just a brief. I saw the uniqueness of the story, coached the writer to have “some fun” with it and maybe attempt to get a fun video together by talking to owners and patrons of the restaurant. After it was posted online, I tweeted it out to Gawker.com and Huffington Post. In 2 days the story and video drew 90,000 page views with an average of 1:30 of engaged time.• NEWSGATE Innovator: Learned a full knowledge of the CCI Newsgate system and have created unique searches for team members and I have created “group” team lists unique to each news department saving time when creating story folders. The News-Press is the only media outlet in all of Gannett with this feature.• Ability to post, edit and incorporate video to the Presto system from Newsgate or directly into Presto. Since Sept. 2014, I have posted and organized display for all of the Coastal Life section.• Graduate of Leadership Bonita 2013-2014

• Beat writer New Orleans VooDoo arena football.• Writer high school sporting events – football, basketball, volleyball, soccer.• Writer college sporting events – The Bayou Classic, The New Orleans Bowl and Sugar Bowl Golf Tournament.• Writer professional sporting events – New Orleans Zephyrs and Ironman 70.3 triathlon.• Feature story writer for community and high-profile national events.

• Managing Editor/Director of writers, photographers and designers in all facets of magazine production.• Feature writer/editor.• Radio Co-host AM-1410 Leesburg, Florida. • Creative developer for community growth and development programs.• Developer and Implementation Manager Web-Blog.• Media development and Web-based video production for www.thelakemagazine.net.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Manager of a minimum of 30 associates – instructed young writers values of journalism from deadline and investigative reporting to news judgment.• Delegation of assignments, photos and graphics for high school sports, National Hockey League and boxing.• Multimedia with The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-Channel 8 and TBO.com.• Editor Super Bowl XXXVII nine daily special sections – Manager of 57 full-time employees split in San Diego, California and Tampa, Florida.• Writing Coach – leading to nine APSE National awards for department.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

Activities and Societies: Tau Epsilon Phi