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Michael Newton

Film | Broadcast | Digital · Los Angeles, CA

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Summary

Film, broadcast, and video editor with nearly a decade at A+E Factual Studios, advancing from Marketing Assistant Editor to Editor on long-form unscripted programming for A+E, History, Hulu, and Amazon. Now Partner and Head of Post Production at Victory Road Studios — designing post pipelines from project creation through delivery, and editing original series and specials. Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Narration on Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil War.

Experience

Partner | Head of Post Production | Executive Producer

Victory Road StudiosLos Angeles, CA

Sep 2025Present

Lead and oversee post-production workflows across longform, shortform, and social media content, supporting multiple concurrent productions.

  • Design, build, and deploy post pipelines from project creation through final delivery, including editorial structure, asset management, delivery specs, and archival strategy.
  • Produce and edit original series and specials, collaborating directly with showrunners, directors, and executive producers.
  • Served as Assistant Editor, Editor, and Story Producer across all four episodes of the 4-part docuseries Strongman: The Brian Shaw Story.
  • Created and implemented the entire post-production workflow for Strongman, managing ingest, editorial turnover, versioning, and final deliverables.
Post Pipeline DesignExecutive ProducingEditorialAsset ManagementDelivery

Editor [Prod Ops — A+E Factual Studios]

A+E Global MediaNew York, NY

Jul 2022Sep 2025

Created original unscripted long-form programming for A+E Factual Studios, collaborating with story producers, archival producers, composers, colorists, and mixers to construct the best stories under demanding deadlines.

  • Design project structure and workflows that best serve the post team's objective.
  • Train contractor editors and assistant editors to A+E Factual Studios best practices.
  • Troubleshoot technical issues across the post pipeline.
  • Address internal and network notes through every cut stage.
  • Picture lock final offline sequences for delivery.
Avid Media ComposerLong-FormUnscriptedColorNetwork Notes

Jr. Editor [Prod Ops — A+E Factual Studios]

A+E Global MediaNew York, NY

Aug 2019Jul 2022

Trained the post production team on operations within the Nexis system, working in Avid native codecs and contributing editorial on A+E Factual Studios programming.

  • Trained the post production team on operations within the Nexis system working in Avid native codecs.
  • Assembled radio edits on all episodes, working extensively in ScriptSync and PhraseFind.
  • Addressed network notes through rough cut and fine cut stages.
  • Created graphic elements using third-party plugins within Avid.
  • Applied color effects and corrections to offline sequences using Symphony.
Avid SymphonyScript SyncPhraseFindRadio EditsColor Correction

Lead Assistant Editor [Prod Ops — A+E Factual Studios]

A+E Global MediaNew York, NY

Dec 2018Aug 2019

Owned media management and assistant-editorial leadership across A+E Factual Studios productions, training incoming team members and setting the technical floor for the post team.

  • Ingested, transcoded, organized, and managed assets ranging from production footage and audio to sound effects, music, graphics, archival, and narration recordings.
  • Trained assistant editors, associate producers, and additional editors on workflow designs and operations.
  • Troubleshot software errors and malfunctions across the post department.
  • Multigrouped and stringout multicam footage to editor specifications.
  • Conformed all final-lock episodic sequences to online vendor specifications.
Media ManagementIngest & TranscodeMulticamOnline Conform

Assistant Editor [Prod Ops — Marketing]

A+E Global MediaNew York, NY

Dec 2017Dec 2018

Supported the A+E Marketing promos department with media ingest, QC, tape layback, and onboarding for incoming Media Center assistants.

  • Ingested media for the PROMO department and QC'd and DFO'd final spots to Stamford.
  • Performed tape laybacks and reformatted short-form digital content.
  • Trained new-hire Media Center Assistant Editors.
PromosQC & DFOTape LaybackShort-Form

Education

Los Angeles Pierce College

Sep 2006 May 2008

Associate in Arts — Woodland Hills, CA.

Liberty Union High School

Sep 2001 Jun 2005

Diploma — Brentwood, CA.

Certifications

The Art of Editing Course

2016

The Edit Center — Brooklyn, NY

Avid Certified Professional

2019

Future Media Concepts — New York, NY

Awards

Emmy Nomination — Outstanding Narration

2022

Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil War

Editor Credits

Broadcast

  • Modern Marvels
  • Military Mysteries
  • Fight The Power
  • Adam Eats The 80s
  • Unidentified S1 & S2
  • The Proof Is Out There
  • History's Greatest Of All Time
  • Black Patriots: Buffalo Soldiers
  • The Toys That Built America S2 & S3
  • History's Greatest Mysteries S3 & S4
  • The Engineering That Built The World
  • Unidentified: UFO's In the Headlines
  • Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil War
  • Mysteries Unearthed
  • Dance Moms Reunion Special
  • 1000 Ways to Dine
  • Fasten Your Seatbelt
  • Interrogation Raw
  • Crime In Progress
  • Groundbreakers

Streaming

  • Benedict Men — Victory Road+
  • Ted Bundy: Dialogue with the Devil — Hulu
  • Dance Moms: A New Era S1 & S2 — Hulu
  • It's In the Game (Madden Doc) — Amazon
  • Strongman: The Brian Shaw Story — Amazon
  • Sex, Money, Murder — Hulu