Michelle Nicolosi
206-448-8217
November 2005 - Present
Assistant Managing Editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Oversee the newsroom's breaking news team and manage SeattlePI.com. Transitioned the newsroom from an EOD deadline operation to a Continuous News operation. Oversee a staff of 15 reporters, editors, online producers, engineers and designers. Responsible for all aspects of Seattlepi.com, including business and content development.March 2004 - November 2005
Investigative reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Stories include an investigation of the state's lax dental disciplinary system, and an investigation that found that at least a dozen Catholic priests accused of molesting minors lived with children for years, often serving as legal parents or guardians to boys who called the rectory home.October 2001 - March 2004
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication
Founding editor of Japan Media Review, editor of Online Journalism Review since June 2003. Managed a staff of six producers, editors and artists; coordinated the work of dozens of freelancers worldwide. Taught online and print journalism, and helped rewrite the school's journalism curriculum.May 2001 - October 2001
Freelance writer. Clients include The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Salon.
July 2000 - May 2001
PersonalReader.com
Vice President, Business Development. Headed the company's effort to build a dwindling client list, forge new partnerships and find other ways to survive the sudden downturn in the Web content business.
January - June 2000
Content/project manager, HomePage.com.
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. As a result of our series, the clinic was closed, the doctors were indicted, the state legislature passed a law making it a felony to steal eggs and embryos and the University of California paid more than $20 million to settle over 100 lawsuits.
1989 - 1990
Freelance Reporter, Los Angeles Times
Covered the city of Seal Beach, California.
1985 - 1989
Freelance Reporter, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana
Covered entertainment and the music scene, wrote a weekly restaurant column.
Service
Society for Newspaper Design SNDies judge, 2006/2007. Board member of SPJ's Western Washington Chapter, 2005/2006.
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.
2005 & 2006: Numerous SPJ regional awards.
Education
B.A. in Communications, University of New Orleans. Previously enrolled in USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.
Technical
HTML, Photoshop, DreamweaverMichelle<atsymbol>nicolosi.org
