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Michael Cervieri is an Emmy Award winning storyteller equally comfortable leading media production and communications teams, and developing and integrating the digital platforms upon which they operate.
He’s taught graduate level journalism, communications and technology courses at Columbia University. He was the founder of The Future Journalism Project.
Currently designing, developing and implementing digital storytelling strategies, and choosing the networks, platforms and technology integrations needed to provide the greatest reach, so that clients better understand, connect with and expand their audiences.
Created this independent, international media lab to explore disruption, opportunity and innovation in the news media. I served as digital director and publisher for our editorial products, and producer and host for our live events. My strategies grew our reach from an audience of zero to about half-a-million in a few short years.
Led team that created and implemented media, engagement and technology strategies for this global nonprofit that supports media activists in their efforts to document human rights abuse. My role encompassed digital strategy and implementation, editorial development and community engagement.
Directed digital teams that developed strategies and implemented award-winning multimedia productions and editorial products for clients such as Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, The Producers Guild of America and the Advertising Research Foundation among others.
Rebranded and guided the development of this English-language newspaper with an international team of editors to create a liberal voice promoting reform in Saudi Arabia.
Founding editor of this award-winning international culture and travel magazine. Recruited and edited diverse writers. Wrote short and long-form articles on international events. Kickstarted the magazine’s online presence. Was Associate Editor from 1996-1998.
Directed development of this e-learning company’s applications and those of its clients.
Reporting AIDS: Web-based video series on HIV/AIDS politics, science and advocacy.
China’s Next Great Wall: Video on a photovoltaic installation created for the Olympics.
Adjunct Professor: Designed curriculum and taught graduate courses on how non-traditional publishers such as NGO’s, Non-Profits, Governmental Agencies and Citizen Journalists use technologies to communicate with and activate constituent audiences.
Adjunct Professor: Advised graduate digital media students on their year-long Masters’ Projects and instructed a studio course on Web design and multimedia storytelling.
Code is both an avenue for new press freedoms and further suppression and control.
Disruption in traditional news organizations has given non-traditional players such as NGOs and non-profits the ability to participate in and drive the news cycle.
Strategies for how independent news organizations can make their works known, shared and influential.
The opportunities and pitfalls of using online video for brand building and marketing.
An investigation into open versus closed networks, e-governance and the future of the Internet as part of a broader conference on Policy Making in the Digital Age.
As organizations in all fields become publishers, a set of digital media best practices to guide them.
Digital Media.
Double Concentration in Philosophy and English. Dean’s List.
Sitting Member focussed on expanding digital capabilities and engagement reach as we protect over a thousand acres in southwest Rhode Island.
Board member and secretary of this conservation group focusing on the ecological well-being of an 85-acre pond in southwest Rhode Island.
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