Professionally Speaking
Michael Cervieri is an Emmy Award-winning storyteller and digital strategist who specializes in helping organizations connect with their audiences through editorial products, communications strategies, and integrated digital ecosystems.
Through Studio Ronaut, he leads editorial teams, develops messaging frameworks, coaches executives speeches and presentations, and builds unified publishing and communications platforms.
Previously, he founded The Future Journalism Project, an independent media lab that explored information ecosystems, and worked with audiences to find better ways to produce, consume and understand the news. In that role, he grew an organic audience from zero to hundreds of thousands through an analog-digital mix of publications, podcasts, and live events.
Michael's career spans leadership roles across media, technology, and human rights.
As Digital Director at WITNESS, he directed global engagement strategies for human rights advocates, while at ScribeLabs he led editorial teams that produced award-winning multimedia content for clients including Google, Microsoft, and Adobe.
His work has been recognized with an Emmy Award for Advanced Media and a Webby Awards Official Honoree distinction.
A dedicated educator, Michael taught graduate-level courses at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism along with its School of International and Public Affairs. In that role he developed courses on digital media storytelling and how non-traditional publishers leverage technology to activate audiences.
Michael holds an MS in Digital Media and a BA in Philosophy and English from Columbia University.
Because it's always kind of fun to look under the hood.
Obsidian: For personal knowledge management
Notion: for team knowledge management
Google Docs: for team knowledge management
Ulysses: for final drafts
Obsidian: for research and initial drafts
Hugo: for sites that are primarily content driven
Astro: for sites that need more dynamic interactions
Wordpress: for sites that need a backend (and because I've been creating WP sites for close to 20 years.)
Zapier: to connect sites and platforms so they talk to each other
Pipedream: to connect APIs and databases
BoltAI: a BYOK desktop app to interface with different LLM models
Claude: for coding support
Perplexity: for research
NotebookLM: a research RAG system where I query discrete source material
Cloudflare: for DNS configuration and static site hosting
AWS: for CDN (Cloudfront) and mail (SES) delivery
Google Cloud: for working with and extending Google Workspace and Analytics among many other things
Visual Studio Code: for code
Coda: also for code (and an old throwback)
Marktext or Markpad: for markdown
Logic Pro: for editing sounds and composing soundscapes
Reason: as a standalone DAW or a plugin within Logic Pro
Blackhole: to route audio between apps during recording
Final Cut: For editing what needs to be edited
Screenflow: For creating screencasts and tutorials