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| The BYRONIK.COM Web site has been my portfolio for more than 10 years. I still code all the html by hand using Notepad. Please feel free to snoop around. Maybe there's some small way we can do each other some good. | ||||||||
| I trained at London's leading journalism school when it was still called the London College of Printing. Now it is called London College of Communications and is part of the University of the Arts London. Since I graduated, I've spent most of my working life working for California newspapers, running a newsroom, solving reporters' problems and editing their copy into AP style. Further details may be found in my résumé. | ||||||||
| Despite the grand title of executive editor, my responsiblities frequently included having to personally layout and compile small publications such as the official programs for the City of Chula Vista's annual "Music by the Bay" events, its annual Lemon Festival, its Cinco de Mayo celebrations, its Starlight Yuletide Parade, National City's Automobile Heritage Day and an occasional special publication for California's largest high-school district. | ||||||||
| More recent projects for private clients include the program for the Community Coaching Center's Beach Bash for Autism Awareness. I have also created newspaper products and organized their timely printing at Pomerado Press and distribution by Poste Haste Mailing Services. Let me know your needs and I'll be happy to put together a comprehensive quote for publishing even a one-off product. | ||||||||
| If you're too busy making money to update the content on your Web site or your corporate blog, you can pay me to do it on an hourly or a per-item basis. Sadly, the industrial Web site for which I served a whole year as copy editor is no longer active because its owner Steve Loud suddenly died in the hospital after a "routine biopsy" for the treatment of his interstitial lung disease. | ||||||||
| Since his CompositesNews.Com domain name expired on June 23, 2007, I've uploaded a mirror of the CNI's final front page to give some idea of the quality and scope of the 40, or so, news stories we presented every week. And here's an example of the weekly "e-Blast" I used to create for his e-mail subscribers around the world. | ||||||||
| Some original published articles written entirely by me can be found here and there. Sometimes I edit odd copy that turns up on my desk and I upload it into my scrapbook, just for fun. Take a look at my cleaned up version of somebody's advertorial about an exploding sweetener. | ||||||||
| Testimonials are available from former protégés, former supervisors, former clients and from one of the world's leading medical practitioners whom I am helping to write a book. If only I could find a serious individual who would sell ads on a commission basis, I would launch a community newspaper tomorrow. | ||||||||
| Please use the form at the foot of this page to send me your questions and comments. If enough people send me their favorite joke, I might even have another shot at stand-up comedy. | ||||||||
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| Michael C. Burgess for and on behalf of BYRONIK.COM Online Editorial Services | ||||||||
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| "He was wonderfully generous to anybody who wrote in a letter to the editor. He didn?t have a slant. If you wrote a letter, you could pretty much count on it getting printed." |
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— Susan Watry, Chula Vista resident and community activist with Crossroads II |
| "He believes in the first amendment and freedom of speech more than anyone I've encountered in journalism." |
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— Mike Giorgino, Republican former Congressional candidate |
| "It's so important for [Michael Burgess] to somehow get back into the print media because we need to hear the truth." |
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— Enrique Morones, activist and broadcaster |
| "We were impressed by Michael¹s grasp of quite difficult subjects with which he was unfamiliar." |
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— Claire Melvin, editor, Accounting Technician |
| "Michael is a great editor! He taught me a lot about journalism in the time I worked for him." |
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— Jessica Zisko, general-assignment reporter, Riverside Press-Enterprise |
| "Michael proved to be a valuable team member during his time here, contributing fully to staff meetings. His work was thoroughly researched and well written." |
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— Gail Robinson, editor, Internet Magazine |
| "Wonderful voice, great intellect and insight, best sense of humour I ever met." |
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— Alwyn W. Turner, author, Crisis? What Crisis? |
| "We valued the contribution he made to the team." |
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— Toby Poston, news editor, Computer Weekly |
| "Michael's poetry, however, makes no attempt at finesse, the Byron genes may have suffered in their dilution down the generations." |
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— Christina Hardyment, Daily Telegraph |
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