Michael Karol Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Edit, copy edit and proofread content for various clients, including digital and print publications, ads and marketing pieces. Managed multiple projects simultaneously and consistently met tight deadlines. Developed and maintained strong client relationships, resulting in repeat business. Clients include: Weitz & Luxenberg, First for Women, Woman’s World, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The New York Botanical Garden, KBS, Merkley+Partners, Prevention magazine, Westchester magazine, Closer, OK!, In Touch, Fortune, CNET, Ladies Home Journal, The College Board, Bloomingdales, Toshiba and Gateway Computers.

Englewood Cliffs, Nj

Copy edited and proofread all text for these two weekly tabloid magazines (WW, approx. 40 pages a week and FFW, approx. 82 pages a week), using Adobe InDesign and InCopy/K4. Added corrections and revisions and consulted with editors and the art department as needed.

New York, Ny

Edited and proofread all text and articles in this 72-page weekly magazine plus special issues, using Adobe InDesign and InCopy/K4, resulting in a 98% error-free rate.

New York, Ny

Proofread, copy edited, trafficked pages and entered edit corrections using Adobe InDesign and ShareFile for the startup magazine All Creatures and other bimonthly publications like Everyday Blessings, Strength & Care and Building Wealth.

New York, Ny

Copyedited and proofread 3,000-plus pieces a year, including ads, catalogs, invitations, press releases and mailers; rewrote and updated more than half a dozen style guides forthe Copy Department.

New York, Ny

Client list includes: Westchester magazine, Prevention, OK!, Reality Weekly, In Touch, Fortune, Martha Stewart Living, Valley Life magazine (L.A.), Video Business, Ladies Home Journal, The College Board, Gateway Computers, ToshibaAmong my duties: Writing, editing, copyediting and proofreading pages; trafficking pages between the art, production, and editorial departments; entering corrections on the Mac and PC using Adobe InCopy & InDesign, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Acrobat, and other current publishing software; writing headlines and copy as needed; and ensuring pages are complete from first read to final copy.

New York, Ny

As the only copy editor at Prevention magazine's New York office, I proofread and made changes and suggestions in page files on Adobe InCopy and InDesign (K4), working on the magazine, its tablet version, and various special issues published under the Prevention name.

Bronx, N.Y.

Write, proofread, edit, and traffic all marketing, merchandising, catalog and ancillary text pertaining to the NYBG and its activities.

New York, N.Y.

As the only copy editor at Prevention magazine's New York office, I proofread and made changes and suggestions in page files on Adobe InCopy and InDesign (K4), working on the magazine, its tablet version, and various special issues published under the Prevention name.

New York, Ny

Copy Chief for the One Life to Live special Tribute issue.

New York, Ny

• Supervised a full-time staff of two on the national tabloid Soap Opera Weekly. This expanded to a staff of four every other month when Pixie, a bimonthly digest for tweens, was published.• Blogged and tweeted at SoapOperaWeekly.com on a daily basis. • Proofread, edited, and trafficked all copy and pages for both magazines.• Made page corrections, copy-fit, and managed files on Quark/QPS.• As the All My Children editor, interviewed celebrities and show runners on a weekly basis, and wrote features on programming, including prime-time shows such as House and Desperate Housewives.• Blog at www.soapoperaweekly.com.

• Supervised story assignments for various custom projects, including the monthly Gateway Guide magazine and the twice-yearly Fortune/CNET Tech Review magazine.• Copy-edited text for various magazines and Web sites.• As Co-Managing Editor, coordinated page traffic with artists and editors.

Produced, edited, wrote and distributed as many as eight e-mail newsletters a week on the subject of deals and deal making.

Greater New York City Area

On this popular national tabloid monthly that was often phone-book size, trafficked up to 200 editorial pages a month between art and editorial; final arbiter of all grammatical text corrections; read and rewrote captions and headlines when necessary; entered corrections into the Mac or PC as required. Rewrote the Computer Shopper Style Guide.

Managed editorial process for this national monthly magazine serving the print and graphic arts industries. Trafficked pages, wrote and edited columns and special supplements. Won Cahners Editorial Medal of Excellence for my column "How'd They Print That?"

Ms, Mass Communication/Media Studies, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Rhythm & Blues/Disco Editor, Pop Top magazine

Ba, Sociology/Communications

Activities and Societies: Penn Players, Mask & Wig, Penn Glee Club