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Plymouth, MI, ***** Apt. C

Phone 734-***-****

E-mail:

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Nick Meyer

Objective

To obtain a job in the world of sports that will allow me to utilize my writing, editing and journalism skills.

Education

2001- April 2006 Graduate University of Michigan-Dearborn

Dearborn, MI

Communications/Journalism Major with English Minor

■ 3.36 GPA

Work Experience

November 2014-Present, Website Founder at AltHealthWorks.com and ForgottenSportsHeroes.com

■ Launched AltHealthWorks.com, a natural health website, from scratch in 2013. The site has grown to 200,000-plus Facebook fans and received hundreds of thousands to millions of page views each month on average, and has been cited by Yahoo!, Mercola.com, the top natural health site on the Web, and other similar sites.

■ Also recently founded the new sports nostalgia site ForgottenSportsHeroes.com, which received over 10,000 page views in March of this year (Project is currently on the backburner).

■ Am well-versed in social media, email marketing, online journalism and content creation. Sports articles have been published on the front page of Yahoo! Sports through the former Yahoo! Contributor Network.

May 2012-August 2013 PR/Social Media Specialist for Sunny Media Group, Livonia, MI

■ Wrote press releases and blogs while managing client accounts and writing sales copy for sports apparel, financial, automotive companies.

Feb. 2008-2016 Staff/Freelance Writer for the Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI

■ Worked from May 2008-2009 as a Web staff writer. Won 2008 Michigan AP Sports Writing 2nd Place Award with five others.

■ Developed a large following as a Detroit Lions, Red Wings, Tigers and college sports live blogger. Routinely had stories that ranked #1 on Freep.com, the website of the Detroit Free Press, the largest newspaper in Michigan at the time.

■ Contributing writer to 'Forever Hockeytown,' the Detroit Red Wings' 2008 championship book.

November 2004- May 2005 Sports Editor at The Michigan Journal, Dearborn, MI

■ Served as sports editor for the University of Michigan-Dearborn's student newspaper. Covered Michigan Wolverines football and basketball games on press row.

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