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Michael Hickerson: Farpoint Media Executive News Director & Slice of SciFi Content Producer

michael_hickerson_photo1.jpegMichael Hickerson first discovered sci-fi on a UHF station’s Friday night Sci-Fi theater and has been hooked ever since. He grew up on Star Wars, Buck Rodgers and the original Battlestar Galactica, before finding the two great sci-fi loves of his life, Star Trek and Doctor Who. Michael is an avid reader, not just of sci-fi and fantasy but all genres. In his spare time, Michael blogs, co-hosts the weekly “TV Round-Up” podcast and spoils his niece and nephew.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a degree in journalism. He’s had a wide and varied career that has included stops as a sports writer/editor, tech supporting, running a software distribution company and delivering live scores and data. He currently works for the governor’s communications office for the state of Tennessee.

After working as a journalist for Slice of SciFi for a year, Michael was promoted to Assistant News Editor and the Managing Editor for FarPoint Media’s Zombie Channel.

Upon the announcement of the retirement of Sam Sloan from the post of FarPoint Media’s exec. news dir. and Slice of SciFi Content Producer, Michael Hickerson was promoted to those two positions effective November 3, 2008.

Nina Hofmann: Graphics Designer Goddess

Nina is a civil engineer and software developer from Bavaria Germany.

Aside from hacking in codes, she spends her workdays designing and specifying software applications.

Her love for science fiction started with the German television airing of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the late 1980’s. From that time on she was hooked and has enjoyed watching nothing else but sci-fi.

As beautiful as Bavaria is, there is one drawback: all her shows are usually a year or two behind, but fortunately there are still DVD’s that she purchases in order to stay up-to-date. Among her favorite programs are Farscape, Star Trek: TNG and Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.

Nina is a voracious reader of various genres and loves listening to a whole array of music ranging from Heavy Metal to Opera. She has, only recently, taken up painting watercolors.

Nina is responsible to many of the stunning images that brand Slice of SciFi and a handful of other FarPoint Media websites, and is lovingly referred to by us as our ” Graphics Goddess.”

Samuel K. Sloan: FarPoint Media News Consultant

Samuel K. Sloan Sam is a 20 year veteran broadcaster who served as FarPoint Media’s executive news director for 2 years and Slice of SciFi content producer since its inception in March 2005. Sam helped to build our news program and team of international reporters and contributors from the ground up making Slice of SciFi one of the premiere sites and shows for all news sci-fi and genre related.

On November 3, 2008, Sam stepped down as FarPoint Media Executive News Director and Slice of SciFi Content Producer and went into a well deserved retirement for medical reasons. The press release of Sam’s retirement can be read HERE.