Michelle Solomon

Hollywood, FL USA
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Professional Experience

I've single-handedly launched custom-publishing magazines from the ground up for five star hotels and luxury products, from writing, editing and creative direction to overseeing production. Expertise in luxury writing. Also health and business profiles. I am a deadline driven, results-producing editor/writer who learned to write in newspaper and television breaking news, so stories are done quickly and accurately.

Expertise

Content Editor (online)
10 Years
Writer
20 Years
Editor
10 Years

Specialty

Consumer Products
5 Years
Lifestyle
10 Years
Other, Specify
10 Years

Industries


Broadcasting - News - TV (Local)
10 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
10 Years
Academia Teaching
5 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Community Media Corporation (10+), Mandarin Oriental Hotels (10+), Post Newsweek Company (10+), Worth International (6-10), MGM Grand Macau (1-2), Peninsula Hotels (1-2), InterContinental Hong Kong (1-2)

Technical Skills

Able to work within CSS coding, search engine optimization (SEO), content management systems (CMS)

Unions

National Writers Union

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, InDesign, Windows XP, HTML, Photoshop

Equipment

laptop, digital camera, Canon professional camera, IPC recorder, canon scanner

Showcase

Writing Samples/Magazines

Produced, wrote entire in-room magazine.
Feature about the nation's top product designers.
Assigned story about upscale watches.
Sponsor editorials from Croizet to Chanel, Hermes to Veuve Clicquot.
Travel stories from Bali to Beijing.
An interview with fiery Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta about her movie "Water."

Books

Profile for Helm Bank, Miami

Writing Samples/Luxury Consumer Products

This was a story for a very unusual high end watch company. The story ran in the Mandarin Oriental hotel San Francisco book, in its Luxury Portfolio section.
Client story for Mandarin Oriental Munich book about a home accessories store on MaximilianStrasse.
Luxury story on 100 Percent Capri located in Bal Harbour Shops for The Mandarin Oriental Miami Art Book. Interview with designer of brand.
Client piece about TARA for The Peninsula Beverly Hills Art Book Vol. 1
Luxury Portfolio stories for Brioni (men's wear), Armani Boutique, Miami; and Cartier's Made In America celebration.
Cartier celebrates 100 Years in America for the Mandarin Oriental Miami Luxury Art Book.
Story about purse creator Lana Marks for The Peninsula Beverly Hills Luxury Art Book.
Interview with Tiffany & Co.'s new design director Francesca Amfitheatrof for Fisher Magazine, Miami.
Story on Ralph Lauren for Mandarin Oriental Washington DC book.
Story for the Mandarin Oriental Miami on Corum Watches.

Health

Broward Health assigned story about woman who was helped after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Profile of Chris Evert, tennis player, for Broward Health magazine.
Assigned profile of cancer survivor Lisa Boccard.
An assigned story about a young woman suffering from not only brain cancer, but thyroid cancer. New to America, she finds a team of doctors at Broward Health that save her life, and her not-yet-born baby.
Assigned feature on a Pet Therapy program at Broward County (FL) hospitals.
Do cellulite creams really work? Assigned feature for Broward Health magazine.

Entertainment

Celebrity Chatter column dishes weekly info about stars.
Review of Fleetwood Mac in Fort Lauderdale
Winter Music Conference
Blue Man Group at Universal Studios
Gloria Estefan at AAA in Miami.
Sandra Bernhard performs a two night music filled stint at South Beach's Colony Theatre.

Visual Art

A man who makes sculptures out of salt
Profile of the Wildenstein Gallery New York
Collecting Art feature
Galerie Leu in Munich, Germany, for the Mandarin Oriental Munich art book.
Profile of Galerie Thomas in Munich, Germany, for the Mandarin Oriental Munich art book.