Michael Thomas Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Edmonton, Canada Area

• I founded Grayowl Point, a blog focused on the Canadian independent music scene, in 2009. As an editor and a writer, I have done the following:
• Write album reviews weekly
• Write concert reviews
• Interview musicians and write short features
• Manage relationships with musicians, record label reps, PR agents
• Manage the blog’s social media presence on Twitter and Facebook

Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea

Teaching English to Korean students.

Toronto, Canada Area

• As Managing Editor, I do the following:
• Copy edit incoming stories
• Update social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Instagram
• Write a news article a day on various topics, from world news to arts to technology
• Find important news stories to assign to other writers
• Work with established and new writers to ensure compliance with editorial guidelines

• Kept the site's Twitter and Facebook accounts up-to-date
• Edited Exclaim! TV video sessions using Final Cut Pro
• Wrote descriptions of Exclaim! TV sessions, contests, music/video roundups
• Once a week, put together the Exclaim! newsletter
• Occasionally reviewed concerts

Produced the Fed Podcast, based on the Toronto Star column by Corey Mintz. On a monthly basis, I received roughly two to three hours of tape which I then cut down to a fifteen- to thirty-minute podcast.