Michael Skoler Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I work with David Brooks and a passionate team on a project to support people throughout the US who are weaving relationships across difference in their communities. They are spurring a cultural revolution, fixing a social fabric tattered by distrust, loneliness and alienation and creating beloved places of mutual caring and belonging where everyone is.

New York, New York, United States

The Peace Studio develops artists and journalists through fellowships and public programs to help them inspire hope and catalyze transformative social change through their work. Storytellers can help shift social norms to create a culture of mutual dignity, care, and peace.

Treasurer for this non-profit which brings together journalists, game designers, artists, marketers and audiences around the world to discuss how media can best serve society. I oversee HR, budgeting, tax filings, audits, financial reports and non-profit accounting.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• I joined this 55-person public radio organization to expand its news and music stations, its Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and its Kentucky Public Radio Network and Ohio Valley ReSource regional.
• Acquiring Do502, a citywide social calendar, and expanding its focus from local music and venues to sports, family and community events. Added 35,000 new people to LPM’s digital audience.
• Implementing a board-driven diversity strategy through hiring policies, compensation review and outreach, expanding diversity of our Board of Trustees, Community Advisory Board and staff.
• Expanding local news and Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting staff by five people.
• Growing budget by 6% and upgrading fundraising infrastructure with new CRM, NetSuite financial software and new staff overseeing sustaining members and digital underwriting.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I joined PRI to transition it from a radio to a digital media company. I oversaw digital journalism, social media, tech development, data and analytics, audience development and special projects. My innovations include:
• Redesigning and launching PRI’s tech platform, social team and web strategy, targeting Millennials and mobile. Our team grew audience from 175,000 to 2.8 million monthly uniques, with 48% of site audience under age 35.
• Leading PRI’s role in the $1.6 million, 2-year State Integrity Investigation that ranked all 50 state governments on their risk of corruption.
• Raising $7.7 million for new initiatives and managing relationships with Omidyar Network, Gates, Rita Allen, Ford, Knight and others.
• Designing the impact strategy and tracking systems for grant-funded content verticals on immigration, gender equity and international security.

Greater New York City Area

Served two terms on the final judging panel for this renowned broadcast journalism award.

Cambridge, MA

Served on the Executive Committee and led the Web Advisory group during the launch of NiemanLab.

Columbia, MO

Analyzed and wrote about unconventional business models that could be applied to the changing media landscape, with case studies of Red Hat, Angie's List, Politico and Consumer Reports.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I raised $11 million and created the first major crowdsourcing network for US news organizations, receiving US Patent #8521763. Known as the Public Insight Network®, it has grown to 250,000 citizen sources and is used by 66 client newsrooms across the US. I pioneered online news games, including the popular federal budget game BudgetHero played by 3.

Co-founded and managed the largest collaborative programming effort in public media, involving 267 public radio stations, 50 producers, National Public Radio, American Public Media, BBC World Service, CBC and PRI. The result was a coordinated week of news coverage on major national issues in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I led public radio’s largest regional newsroom (63 people and $4.6MM budget.) Audience grew 12% and public radio membership 13% from 2003-2007. I introduced large-scale crowdsourcing to public media and pioneered audience engagement using databases, online games, events and interactive live shows.

Developed business plans around digital television and cable ventures for WGBH, the top producer of prime-time PBS programming and a major broadcaster in New England. I also advised on negotiations with commercial and non-commercial partners.

Greater Boston Area

Served media and technology company clients for this global management consulting firm. My engagements included helping a venture capital firm analyze the revenue potential in a $150 million media merger in a top 10 market, designing and launching a turnaround strategy for a $2 billion division of a global tech company, developing the competitive marketing.

Nairobi, Kenya

Reported from Africa on stories that included the end of Mobutu’s rule in former Zaire, the Rwandan genocide, the first multi-racial elections in South Africa, the US/UN mission in Somalia and Ebola in Congo. I received two 1995 duPont-Columbia Silver Batons for coverage of Rwanda and for team reporting on the South African election of Nelson Mandela and.

Reported and produced science, medical, space and technology stories covering issues such as Internet security, for-profit experimental medical treatment, cold fusion, the Space Shuttle program and government regulation of food. I was a 1991 Science Journalism Fellow at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory and received a 1989 Gold Medal at the.

Washington, DC

Assigned and edited staff correspondents, making news judgments for Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Edited and/or produced special projects and reports.

Boston, MA

Wrote and produced science news and features for the nightly 10 o'clock news and a nationally-syndicated news magazine during a year-long fellowship. Received AAAS-Westinghouse Award recognition in 1988 for my technology reporting.

Mba, Strategy

Activities and Societies: Batten Media Fellow, Shermet Scholar

B.A. Magna Cum Laude, History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

Nieman Fellow, Public Health

Activities and Societies: Male lead in student production of Some Americans Abroad