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Michael Tangeman is a communications professional and media relations specialist, with extensive experience working in various capacities across traditional and digital media platforms.
His work at the agency also has included public policy, advocacy and corporate social responsibility strategies and successful media campaigns around environmentally responsible printing practices as part of Equitrac Corporation's End Print Waste campaign, voter registration issues in Florida for the League of Women Voters and the mortgage foreclosure crisis for the Community Association Leadership Lobby. Michael is also the chief proponent of social media strategies at the Pen Group and recently inaugurated the agency's Social Media Client Newsroom, the first online newsroom with social media capabilities launched by a public relations agency in the South Florida market. He also blogs regularly about the impact of digital technologies on the news media and public relations at media mindshare and is a co-organizer of the monthly MobileMonday Miami meetups of individuals in the South Florida wireless and tech communities.
A dual national of Ireland and the USA, as a former longtime news reporter, editor and foreign correspondent Michael worked for daily and weekly newspapers in California before covering political and business news from He also served as Miami-based Senior Analyst and Regional Editor for Latin America during 1999-2000, with UK-based Informa Telecoms & Media Group's Baskerville Communications unit. Beginning media relations work in 2000 at 1hemisphere.com, Michael handled all external communications, corporate messaging and media relations for the company. Prior to joining The Pen Group in 2004, he directed online information services, coordinated media outreach and was responsible for all aspects of program development and operations forand operations for business-to-business technology conferences in Miami and Latin America. 
Michael is author of the book, Mexico at the Crossroads (Orbis Books, 1995), on the role of religion and politics in the 1994 Zapatista rebellion of indigenous groups in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and is a member of The Authors Guild. He holds an M.A. degree in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University and a B.A. degree in English from Humboldt State University on California's northern Redwoods coast. |
Latin America for more than a decade from Mexico City. His byline and credits as a journalist reporting from Latin America appeared in a variety of publications, including Infrastructure Finance & Institutional Investor magazines, LatinFinance magazine, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Market News International, Catholic News Service, Newsweek, and others.