Michael Klein

Falls Church, VA USA
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Professional Experience

A well-read, well-traveled, and well-fed freelancer, I’ve worked in, and written about, politics, fashion, insurance, the environment, energy, and advertising. I bring an informed and humorously cynical eye to complex and varied issues.

Expertise

Director
8 Years
Producer (television)
18 Years
Writer
20 Years

Specialty

Entertainment
20 Years
Environment & Nature
8 Years
Politics
13 Years

Industries


Advertising agency
20 Years
Nonprofit
8 Years
PR (firm) - Fortune 1000 corp. clients
16 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

The forest products industry (10+), The Copyright Society of America (1-2), National Association of Convenience Stores (1-2), Minnesota Utility Contractors of America (3-5)

Other Work History

I spent five years working in politics on Capitol Hill in Washington and for a short time for the former Governor of Massachusetts.

Technical Skills

Problem solving. I've never been stumped. And I never will be.

Foreign Language Skills

I have studied Russian--speak and understand conversationally. I'm VERY good with languages, have picked up and used Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Spanish while traveling. Seriously.

Unions

of the Snake (formerly).

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, PageMaker, Spider Solitaire, etc.

Equipment

Laptop, desktop, 35mm camera (Nikon. Pentax), digital camera (Olympus 3 megapix), huge brain, muscles, skeletal system, etc.

Work Permits & Visas

I am, how you say? The U.S. citizen.

References

Usually arcane--but not Dennis Miller-arcane. (see above)

Associations

Like Groucho Marx, I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member.

Showcase

Lighter Work

From Real Life to Reel Life
(NACS Magazine 7/1/2007)
The cover story I wrote for the July issue of NACS Magazine. NACS is the National Association of Convenience Store Retailers, thus the genesis of this article: "How is the convenience and gas station industry portrayed in the movies and on television?" The article is reprinted with permission from NACS, but I couldn't get the rights to the photos they used. I also wrote two side-bars for the magazine, but I'm leaving them out here. Let me know if you want to see them. For more information about NACS, the association for convenience and petroleum retailing, including retailer or supplier membership or subscription information for NACS Magazine, please go to www.nacsonline.com or contact NACS at (703) 684-3600.

Serious Issue Pieces

Forests are the Anti-Sprawl
(Spectrum: The Journal of State Government 4/1/2002)
This is a piece I wrote for my former CEO, W. Henson Moore, back in 2002 on tax policy. The target audience was state legislators and governors. The column was well-received and prompted the publication to include sample legislation based on our ideas in the issue.
Forests are the Anti-Sprawl
(Spectrum: The Journal of State Government 4/1/2002)
This is a PDF of the final piece listed above. I wrote it for my former CEO, W. Henson Moore, back in 2002 on tax policy. The target audience was state legislators and governors. The column was well-received and prompted the publication to include sample legislation based on our ideas in the issue.