Although it hasn't always been called "content," Michael Gold has spent more than 25 years digging it up, packaging it, and successfully delivering it to information consumers. He has served as reporter, writer, editor, technical liaison, and manager at various award-winning publications, in print and online. Whatever challenge you face—revamping your magazine, launching a new Web site, boosting the skills of your editorial staff—he has the creative, problem-solving, and executive expertise to help.

EARLY CAREER
Michael started in journalism as a reporter at various East Coast newspapers, including The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, and the Boston Herald American.

He was the first staff writer and later became a senior editor for Science 80, a 600,000-circulation monthly covering science for a general audience that won three National Magazine Awards. Working on the launch of Science 80 gave him a taste for start-ups.

VETERAN LAUNCHER
In 1986, Michael co-founded Hippocrates, now a million-circulation magazine called Health, which won four National Magazine Awards while he served as managing editor and executive editor.

After founding West Gold Editorial in 1994, Michael and his partner, Susan West, helped conceive and launch University Business and Dwell magazines, both of which won national awards soon after their debuts.

Michael also was instrumental in the strategic planning and launch of Thrive, an online healthful lifestyle network produced by Time, Inc. and America Online.

CONSULTANT TO PRINT AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Michael's other Web consulting projects include critiques of sites under development for five magazines of the American Chemical Society; a site-wide review of content and usability for Discovery.com; and a series of editing workshops for WebMD.

On the print side, Michael recently consulted for PC World, VIA, String Letter Publishing, the AARP Bulletin, Trustee, and Hospitals & Health Networks, offering management advice, guiding major renovations, evaluating potential acquisitions, and coaching editorial staff.

Michael also has served as the editor of Strings magazine and edited several jazz arranging books for Berklee Press. He is the author of A Conspiracy of Cells—a popular, nonfiction account of a scandal in cancer research.

Michael appears regularly at national publishing conferences as a speaker, workshop leader, and awards judge. He has a B.S. in physics from Haverford College.