Michael Fitzgerald
Freelance Journalist
- Business and Finance, Technology, World, Environment
- Cambridge, MA
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About
I look at innovation and its effect on society. I also am interested in business as an expression of human creativity.
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2011 - Fellowship
The Nieman Fellowship program is the oldest and best-known study program for journalists in the world. More than 1,300 journalists from 91 countries and territories around the world have come to Harvard for a year of learning, exploration and fellowship.
2011 - Outstanding Business and Technology
The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) annual writing awards honor outstanding nonfiction work produced on a freelance basis during the past year.
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How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email. Postal mail.
Why did you become a journalist?
To tell stories about the world around me.
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Seems like now wd be a good time to get myself self declared a 501c3 ow.ly/l8XxA
or a REIT ow.ly/l8XJh
Restyled as Real Estate Trusts, Varied Businesses Avoid Taxes
nytimes.com — A small but growing number of American corporations, operating in businesses as diverse as private prisons, billboards and casinos, are making an aggressive move to reduce - or even eliminate - their federal tax bills. They are declaring that they are not ordinary corporations at all.
Republicans angry at IRS targeting Tea Party: GOP defends 501c3 and 501c4 organizations.
slate.com — A little more than a year ago, around the time nascent Tea Party organizations started getting Proust-length questionnaires from the IRS, there emerged a scandal about political groups winning tax-exempt status. Left-wing groups. The Daily Caller shared pages of memos and anecdotes from Media Matters for America, then shared quotes...
@pixorial Thx!
Just skipped the @pressfolios waitlist and got early access to build, manage and backup my online portfolio! pressfolios.com
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Congrats to the new crop of #Nieman fellows! ow.ly/l78WV
News Article
nieman.harvard.edu — The Nieman Foundation has selected 24 journalists as fellows in the class of 2014, the 76th cohort to study at Harvard since the foundation’s founding in 1938.
If the technology works as promised, all journo organizations should adopt this. newyorker.com/strongbox/
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RT @davidfcarr: Beware Batch Processing Of Kids: Ed Tech Expert twb.io/17afJBB via @InformationWeek @riparian - #edtech revolution …
Beware Batch Processing Of Kids: Ed Tech Expert
informationweek.com — 8 MOOCs Transforming Education (click image for larger view and for slideshow) It's hard not to get hepped up about education technology. The combination of perceived need for an immense rethink of public education and our belief in the huge potential of technology seem made for each other.
Last Feature Writing class of the semester in the books. w00t!
@beenasarwar thanks. It's probably how most people are buried in Pakistan.
@cindykohlmann You're welcome, Cindy. I'm glad to get to share it.
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