Michael Dozier

Senior News Editor at Blasting News

Michael Dozier, PhD, is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in videography, drone operations, and photography. Since August 2021, Michael has served as a Certified Videographer at NotForgotten Operations LLC, focusing on storytelling for future generations. Additionally, Michael is a Drone Operator at Bees360, Inc. and a Certified Commercial UAS Pilot at AgrowDrone, both roles beginning in 2021. Commitment to disaster relief is demonstrated through the position as a Grey Shirt with Team Rubicon since 2020. Michael has also contributed as a Drone Pilot at The 107 Guys, LLC, and has hosted events for TEAM TRIVIA since January 2019. Freelance photography roles include Commercial Drone Operator at DroneBase and freelance positions with Getty Images and Artic Photography. Since April 2016, Michael has held the position of Senior News Editor at Blasting News. Formal education was completed at the New England School of Photography in 1993.

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Boston, United States

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Blasting News

Blasting News was created in 2013 by Andrea Manfredi, a passionate advocate for truthful, fast-paced journalism. Frustrated with the traditional singularity of a newsroom, Andrea decided to create something different. He contracted a handful of freelance journalists mainly focused on news regarding financial and insurance products and gave them the freedom to embrace their own ideas and opinions. In less than three months, Blasting News had dozens of contributors, and by June 2013, the website had 2 million monthly unique visitors. After observing the rapid growth, and to give more diversity for the contributors (now termed Blasters) to write and therefore drive more readership, Andrea and his team decided to organize Blasting News into different categories, including Politics, Finance, Entertainment, and Sports, among others. Due to the high volume of articles being produced in a short period of time, Reviewers were hired as curators of Blasting News to check every single article prior to publishing. Reviewers were given the power to approve, reject and amend every piece of content to make sure that false, sensationalist and clickbaiting news was filtered out. Proprietary technology was also created to detect errors and ensure that the website was free of plagiarism, offensive content, veracity, and any other issues. In addition to Blasters, and in order to drive more engaged readership to Blasting News, in 2016 social media influencers (now termed Social Blasters) were offered the opportunity to be remunerated for sharing popular content, according to their preferred subjects, to generate more traffic. From that moment on, Blasting News became an all-in-one platform where production and distribution of content work together: where the main goal is to develop systems that promote the dissemination of information. In 2016, Blasting News won the Google DNI awards. In 2020 Blasting News hired Angelo Paura as the editorial director of the platform.


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