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Michael Johnson has nearly 20 years of professional experience in journalism, marketing, sales management, design and presentation and project management. He started his career as a sports reporter and editor with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Chronicle; as a copy editor with the Lenoir (N.C.) News-Topic and Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal; and then as the design editor with the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times. He left the field and became a financial advisor for Edward Jones, where he ran an office with more than $30 million in assets under management. After leaving the brokerage industry, he started his own design and presentation company, A Touch of Omari. Among his projects was the children's book, "Makeda: Queen of Sheba" by Ronald Harrill, which won the International Book Awards' 2013 Best Children's Book Hardcover Nonfiction; the anthology "You and I: The Very Best of O'Bryan" by former EMI Capitol recording artist O'Bryan; and developing and launching an affiliate marketing program for a vegan food manufacturer and distributor in North Carolina. Johnson recently re-entered the field of journalism and currently am an editor for the Consolidated Editing Center newspaper group, which is a part of Berkshire-Hathaway Media Group. He helps oversee the production of four sports sections for newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of South Carolina and communications from Southern New Hampshire University. He currently is pursuing master's degrees in publishing from George Washington University and in integrated marketing communications from West Virginia University.