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SCM Colloquium Series Presents: Becoming a Leader in the Digital News Industry: A Discussion with Michael Goff

September 17, 2014, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location University Hall - 1030
SponsorCollege of the Arts, School of Communication and MediaMore Informationhttp:/‌/‌www.montclair.eduPosted InCollege of the Arts
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Michael Goff is the founder of Out Magazine and now the CEO of the top LGBT blog Towleroad He will discuss his work with Towleroad and previous media experience. Towleroad is now a leading online news source offering a broad range of information on politics, pop culture, gay culture, media, entertainment, photography, fashion, technology, men, music, and travel.

In the early 90s, Michael worked as a magazine editor which led him to found and build Out magazine (and out.com) into the leading gay title. In 1996 he left and became editorial director on the team launching Microsoft's Sidewalk city guides (sold to Citysearch), and went on as a General Manager of MSN to coordinate its move from firewall to a free network of services on the web...and on whose behalf he closed what was then the largest online advertising deal ever. Since 2001 he's built and folded a mobile publishing company, was the Clinton Foundation AIDS Initiative volunteer Lead in Haiti for a year; launched early citizen-journalism effort, Bayosphere with Dan Gilmore; and advised startups including (pre-Google) Blogger, Treehugger.com, and NowPublic.com. Michael's served on the Outfest board in Los Angeles and on AIDS Community Research Initiative of America boards for 20 years. He was an early ACTUP member, wrote the Gaydar media column for New York's Outweek (one of which inspired the AIDS Red Ribbon), and was Paper magazine's "gay" columnist for a year. Register here.