Michael Frank Email & Phone Number

Clintondale, NY, US

My White Barn

LinkedIn admins apparently work in a cube farm somewhere in the cloud and haven't clued in to the idea of working at home, hence the above mandatory "location."

The Cloud

I did it all, from Word Press, to (mild) HTML, and then that whole journo side of things, too, interviewing, reporting, etc. Like the old days, kinda, save for the tubes of the Interwebs making it all a whole lot more about speed and tech-gnar-ology. But you knew that...

AT-LARGE EDITORImplemented a higher quality of gear coverage for two magazines; assigned review/feature copy for both websites; edited key columnists for Web and in-book sections.EXECUTIVE EDITOR 2006-2008, Mountain Bike/Bicycling MagazinesGrew frequency from six to seven issues and re-established Mountain Bike as the widest-circ. title for its genre..

I have written and edited for dozens of publications over the past 18 years, collaborating on large, special projects with other writers and designers; writing profiles of chefs, athletes, and music producers; and writing about cars and the automotive business.

I was brought to Rodale to help re-launch Mountain Bike magazine. The new magazine would have editorial that rivaled the storytelling of Outside, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and have a rich, aspirational look and feel—on a razor-thin budget. I was given only one other part-time staffer dedicated to Mountain Bike, but within two years.

Produced automotive and lifestyle coverage (travel, food, wine, business tech).Helped grow Forbes.com/lifestyle into a huge profit sector for the site, writing and editing over 1,000 columns per year, including massive traffic stories like Top Ten Cars of the Year, and other lists which were (and still are) style touchstones for the Forbes brand. Appeared.

Oversaw front-of-book columns and essays on new gear; guided travel; books; helped steer the editing and production of annual best-of sections on adventure travel; roundups on skiing and snowboarding; climbing and hiking. Assigned, edited and oversaw special coverage. One project, on how to survive anything, won a National Magazine Award for the magazine.

I edited fitness and grooming columns, personal finance, and created and wrote both Hardware (stuff for your garage) and the automotive sections.Worked on several special issues including one that won a National Magazine Award for the magazine called, How to Live Forever. For this section (and others) we tried unorthodox methods, including assigning noted.

I edited and wrote travel features; the automotive column; edited resort news items and gear roundups. Assigned/wrote a range of how-to travel stories, from booking tours to shooting great pictures to personal safety during travel to third-world countries.

I grew from the copy desk at this, my first magazine job, to writing 3,000-word profiles.

Ma, English

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Literature, Humanities

Japanese

B.A, Humanities