Michael Calcagno Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Reporting to the Director of Photography, editing imagery for both print and digital platforms at a multi-million dollar global media brand, and collaborating across the industry to create visually stunning journalism.
• Manage photo research for 20 print magazines annually across various editorial specialties from Charts to Business sections, ensuring engaging visual storytelling.
• Fulfill daily photos requests for billboard.com stories and galleries reaching 25 million monthly visitors.
• Collaborate across departments with editors, writers, designers and photographers to concept art, develop image-led content, and secure high-quality, impactful imagery.
• Negotiate and contract usage rights, licenses, and permissions with large photo agencies, boutique creative houses and individual photographers and artists.
• Coordinate conversion of print magazine content for digital platforms, focusing on optimizing visual content to drive traffic for social media.

Greater New York City Area

• Manage and produce StarTracks, the brand’s highest consistently performing online gallery.
• Research, curate, and edit photos to complete an average of 50 daily story assignments for digital articles and galleries across brand verticals.
• Train new staff in Asana and our project management system focusing on creating, submitting, tracking, and completing requests for photos and visual content to be published online.
• License images and negotiate usage rates for exclusive content with subscription photography agencies, photographers, and through social media.
• Provide live event coverage for award shows, events, and breaking news.
• Streamlined and overhauled budgeting and communications for the Online Photo team.

New York, United States

• Provide live photo editing for editorial news coverage by one of the largest photo agencies in the world.
• Coordinate asset distribution through FTP servers.
• Partnered with photographers, Shutterstock staff, and event coordinators to ensure timely distribution of photographic content.
• Streamlined metadata, keyword tagging, and name tagging of photographs.
• Maintained editorial standards of photographs across diverse array of events including premieres, red carpet, fashion shows, corporate events, parties, award shows and charity fundraisers.

• Wrote, edited, and produced stories with strong visual content that consistently became viral hits for the company.
• Designed and produced engaging visual imagery to elevate brand's storytelling - in articles, social posts, infographics, and features.
• Managed a photo desk that served company-wide departments, including editorial, sponsored content, marketing, and video production, to provide visual assets and find creative solutions.
• Leader in developing editorial strategy for Instagram. Created compelling content that elevated the brands' mission and increased audience engagement.
• Hired and directed photographers, illustrators, and artists for breaking news coverage and features. Managed an annual operating budget and negotiated contracts and licenses.
• Mastered the company's content management system and content testing system to raise the quality of the brand's visual content.

• Built the Visual Team from the ground up to supply groundbreaking/compelling, accurate, and on-brand imagery that furthers Upworthy mission in collaboration with the Editorial team.
• Wrote and designed viral stories with a strong visually compelling angle.
• Spearheaded the development of a team of illustrators, artists, and graphic designers to create dynamic work for the company.
• Grew the Instagram audience over 10k followers and increased engagement while managing the content strategy,
• Managed production on stories across verticals featuring original photography, artwork, or licensed imagery.
• Negotiated contracts and licensed content with an annual operating budget of 48k.

New York, United States

• Support Digital Photo and Online Editorial Departments to complete daily photo assignments for online articles and galleries.
• Provide breaking news coverage and work with editors to meet short deadlines and ensure accurate reporting.
• Research images and negotiate exclusive content with subscription photography agencies.
• Curate engaging imagery to fit within People style, branding, and visual aesthetics while adhering to legal and editorial guidelines.
• Coordinate content distribution across Wordpress, Drupal and Vignette content management systems.
• Use advanced Photoshop retouching and editing skills to optimize workflow.

New York, United States

• Work with photographers, artists, and videographers to acquire rights for their content.
• Identify shareable stories, galleries, and videos among our content partners' pitches.
• Build and maintain relationships with photographers, videographers, and media agencies.
• Identify, research, write, and edit news stories that align with the weather vertical.
• Research stock photography, photojournalism, subscription-based image banks (AP, Getty Images, Corbis, Caters News Agency) and images under the Creative Commons license.
• Maintain database of assets and media contacts.

New York, United States

• Curate and edit the company’s digital archive of over 10+ years of photographs and videos.
• Streamline post-production for high volume of photographs using Adobe Creative Suite
• Producer and Showrunner of multimedia events, overseeing logistics, design, media, and operations for panel discussions, press events, conferences, and art installations
• Act as company liaison, serving as the primary point of contact for producers, photographers, and managers for the New York Times, Associated Press, CNN, CBS, NFL, The Weather Channel, Columbia Pictures, and other media
• Guide tours of the World Trade Center construction site to news media, potential tenants, dignitaries and the public
• Maintain SWAC membership with high-level security clearance and “ES” escort privileges

New York, United States

• 4 years professional photography experience in a diverse range of commercial imagery, including architectural, event, documentary, real estate, and construction
• Experience working with various clients including Silverstein Properties, World Trade Center Properties, UBS, and Nontraditional Employment for Women
• Photos published in The Wall Street Journal, The Commercial Observer, and Architectural Digest
• Clearly communicate with clients to quickly deliver tailored images that meet brand guidelines on deadline
• Coordinate with team photographers, videographers, marketing managers, community managers, advertising and event coordinators, to create compelling photo narratives
• Independently manage technical and logistically complex projects

New York, United States

Protect life and property of the Museum. Patrol and inspect the galleries for safety and security policy infractions. Provide information and assistance to visitors and instruct them on Museum policies.

Allentown, PA

Manage and maintain an FCC licensed radio station focusing specifically on relations between student and community volunteer members. Work includes running executive board meetings, writing weekly agendas, fundraising, advertisement, and campus events.

Master Of Arts, Federated History; World History And The History Of Science, Technology

B.A., History

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Tau: Eta Chapter, WMUH Radio

Education record