Jason Michaels
864-965-8496
Email: jaymich1128@gmail.com | Website: jay-michaels.com
Summary: Writer using journalism and social work experience to write clips, features, enterprise stories and public relations documents to showcase local communities
Education:
- University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | Master of mass communication
- USC Upstate | Spartanburg, SC | B.A. in communications
- Marist College | Poughkeepsie, NY | B.S. in social work
Journalism Skills:
- Audience-Based Writing
- Editing
- Public Relations
- Photography
- AP Style
- WordPress
- Social Media
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
Experience:
- Center for Independent Living of Broward | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Communications Specialist
- Added content to agency social media and website
- Developed flyers using Adobe Acrobat
- Created quarterly newsletters
- Wrote stories about agency and consumer successes
- Created slideshows using Microsoft PowerPoint
- Took and shared event photos on social media and website
- Assisted staff as needed
- Gryffin Media | Work Remotely | Ghostwriter
- Wrote articles discussing business, health, and education
- The Powell Group | Anderson, SC | Blogger
- Wrote about real estate, and highlights in the Western Upstate of South Carolina
- Index-Journal | Greenwood, SC | Intern Staff Writer
- Produced and edited stories for the local newspaper
- Carolina Reporter | Columbia, SC | Writer
- Wrote clips and features about state issues for university newspaper
- Garnet & Black | Columbia, SC | Writer
- Wrote entertainment and local issue stories for university magazine
- Spartan Buzz | Spartanburg, SC | Freelance Writer
- Published clips and feature stories for USC Upstate online magazine for USC Upstate online magazine