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Thomas Maier
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Author and Producer, Freelance
Long Island, New York
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Biography
Thomas Maier is an award-winning author and investigative journalist for Newsday in New York. His new book is MAFIA SPIES a non-fiction story of two mobsters hired by the CIA to kill Fidel Castro. In 2014, his book WHEN LIONS ROAR: The Churchills and the Kennedys" was published by Crown. Maier's 2009 book, MASTERS OF SEX, chronicled the lives of researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson and became an award-winning Showtime television series starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan with Maier as a producer. Maier’s other books include The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, a multi-generational history of the Kennedy family and the Irish Catholic immigrant experience in America; Dr. Spock: An American Life, named a “Notable Book of the Year” in 1998 by The New York Times and the subject of a BBC and A&E Biography documentary. In 1994, Maier’s book, Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America’s Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It, won the Frank Luther Mott Award by the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication as best media book of the year. Maier joined Newsday in 1984, after working at the Chicago Sun-Times. In 2010, Maier won the National Headliners Award for a Newsday documentary/print project investigating the actions of Brookhaven National Lab with nuclear bomb test victims in the Pacific. In 2002, he won the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ top prize for a series about immigrant workplace deaths. He’s also won several national and regional honors, including the national Society of Professional Journalists’ top reporting prize in 2013 for a series about the worldwide trade in human body parts and a 1987 exposé about police corruption. He also won Columbia University’s John M. Patterson Prize for a TV documentary on organized crime.
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Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
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