Michelle Nicolosi
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michelle {at symbol} nicolosi dot org
January 2012 - Present
Owner, Working Press, LLC
Owner of ebook publishing and distribution company Working Press, specializing in work by journalists and other established writers.
March 2004 - January 2012
Editor and Executive Producer seattlepi.com
In March, 2009 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper closed, and seattlepi.com became the first major metropolitan daily newspaper to go online only. I managed the site's transition to online only, creating seattlepi.com's new coverage plan, selecting staff and creating new workflows, priorities and responsibilities for staff.
As editor and executive producer I ran the seattlepi.com newsroom and oversaw the site's production, presentation, engineering and design. Among other things, I was in charge of developing and executing seattlepi.com content partnerships, and oversaw the development and curation of seattlepi.com's collection of more than 200 readers blogs.
Under my leadership, the online-only seattlepi.com attracted more local readers than before the paper closed: More than 1 million people in the Seattle DMA and 4 million people worldwide read the site every month, according to Omniture.
I joined the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as an investigative reporter in March 2004, and became Assistant Managing Editor in charge of seattlepi.com in October, 2005.
October 2001 - March 2004
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication
I was editor of Online Journalism Review -- one of the first publications to cover trends in online journalism -- from June 2003 - March 2004. I was founding editor of Japan Media Review, which tracked online publishing and social media breakthroughs in trendsetting Japan. I also taught online and print journalism, and helped update the school's journalism curriculum.
July 2000 - May 2001
Vice President, Business Development, PersonalReader.com
January - June 2000
Content/project manager, HomePage.com, an idealab! company
1990 - 1999
Reporter, Orange County Register
Covered health and medicine from 1992-1998. I was a lead reporter on the yearlong Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of a California fertility clinic, where doctors took eggs and embryos from patients and gave them to other patients without consent.
1985 - 1990
Freelance Reporter
Service
Online News Association judge, 2009-2011. Society for Newspaper Design SNDies judge, 2006/2007. Board member of SPJ's Western Washington Chapter, 2005/2006. Planned and launched a nine-week professional education series that continues to be offered today. Created and ran a sold out Seattle online news conference.
Honors
1996: Pulitzer Prize, Investigative Reporting; George Polk Award for medical reporting; Roy W. Howard award for public service; Investigative Reporters and Editors gold medal, Sigma Delta Chi award and National Headliners award for investigative reporting. 2006: Best of the West, project reporting, 2nd Place.
Education
B.A. in Communications, University of New Orleans. Previously enrolled in USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.