Michael Aaron Gallagher
Michael Aaron Gallagher is best known for his work as an entertainment journalist, celebrity photographer, actor, film producer, and international fine art collector. As the owner of a global entertainment news website for over 15 years, he interviewed and photographed some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
An award-winning writer, his work has been read by an audience of more than 75 Million readers around the world. He has been published in more than 50 of the Top 100 magazines and newspapers in the United States. He is a former Television Critic for the Sunday Edition of The Post Standard newspaper (an S.I. Newhouse publication) and Syracuse.com. He was also an associate editor of 18 community newspapers across New York State published by the Scotsman Media Group (the largest home-delivered publication in Central New York with a readership of more than 367,000) and the nationally award-winning women’s magazine Today’s CNY Woman, which, at the time, was the #1 women’s business and lifestyle magazine in Central New York.
With international business experience, he has worked in television, radio and film. His movie reviews have been quoted on official movie posters and DVD covers in the United States and Great Britain. His exclusive celebrity interviews have been liked and shared across social media for more than a decade. He has attended numerous entertainment industry events, movie premieres and special screenings. With VIP access, he has documented his adventures behind-the-scenes on film and television sets, as well as backstage at concerts in the United States and Canada.
Michael Aaron Gallagher was quoted on “Access Hollywood” with Billy Bush and Liz Hernandez about “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” on Dec. 15, 2015.
He has been quoted on Access Hollywood and his opinions have appeared in USA Today, New York Post, New York Daily News, The Saturday Evening Post, twice in People magazine (including the “Sexiest Man Alive” issue), TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Elle, Allure, Marie Claire, Nylon, Redbook, Self, Live Happy, American Songwriter, Country Weekly, Money, Business Week, Success, Smart Money magazine from The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Town & Country, Prevention, Good Housekeeping, House & Home, Style at Home, Kiwi, HGTV Magazine, Dwell, Experience Life, Family Tree Magazine, Life in the Finger Lakes, Men’s Journal, Motor Trend, Details, Maxim, Cigar Aficionado, Psychology Today, Skeptical Inquirer, Ideas and Discoveries, Scientific American Mind, Popular Science, New Scientist, Archaeology, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, American Scientist, Architectural Digest, American Journalism Review and Smithsonian. In February 2009, his TV review was featured in the television section of MSNBC.com. In the September 2011 issue, actress Rachel Bilson answered his fashion question in her column for InStyle magazine.
Michael Aaron Gallagher (center) poses with actor Russ Streiner (left) from “Night of the Living Dead” and screenwriter John Russo (right) to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the film.
Background
Michael Aaron Gallagher graduated from the elite prep school Manlius Pebble Hill in New York, where he attended on a full James E. Crosby academic scholarship. While in high school, he completed the Mini Medical School program through the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine.
The Biosphere 2 Center in Oracle, Arizona. Photo by Michael Aaron Gallagher.
At the age of 17, he graduated from Columbia University’s Earth Systems Field School at the Biosphere 2 Center in Oracle, Arizona, where he worked with scientists to study the loss of biodiversity within the marsh ecosystem. His white paper on the subject was published in Intertext Vol. 10 and received honorable mention for the Louise Wetherbee Phelps writing award. (Click here to read about his research and recent return to the Biosphere 2 Center).
As a soccer player for 13 years, he represented the United States at the 1997 World Scholar-Athlete Games, an event hosted by the Institute for International Sport that blended athletic competition with cultural events to foster the growth of future world leaders. Approximately 2,000 athletes from 144 countries around the world participated in the games with The Beach Boys performing at opening ceremonies. While at the games, he also participated in the 5K Peace Run at the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport. In 1999, he was one of the few athletes to return to the games a second time, participating in the Inaugural U.S. Scholar-Athlete Games, held in Kingston, Rhode Island. It was there that he played his final official soccer match.
He graduated with honors from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Marketing Management from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Michael holds a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia College, where his 150-page master’s thesis was a strategic audit of DreamWorks Animation SKG, with management recommendations for the Hollywood movie studio.
Michael Aaron Gallagher’s winning cartoon caption in the Fall 2015 Issue of Modern Dog Magazine.
In 2004, he was a semi-finalist in the Viewer’s Choice Challenge for the television show America’s Next Top Model hosted by Tyra Banks. In 2005, his weather photo was featured on the evening news on WTVH5 (CBS). In 2007, he was quoted on the television show The Ivory Tower Half Hour on WCNY (PBS).
In 2011, he was asked to be a special guest speaker during opening ceremonies at a Native American festival in Upstate New York, where he read his poem celebrating the culture of The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee people).
GT’s Gingerade Kombucha with “Words of Enlightenment” quote by Michael Aaron Gallagher on the bottle.
In 2013, Michael Aaron Gallagher’s short story “The Crystal of Oz” based on The Wizard of Oz books came in Fourth Place in the writing contest at the Oz-Stravaganza festival, the longest running Wizard of Oz festival in the world, held in Chittenango, New York (birthplace of author L. Frank Baum).
In the fall of 2015, he wrote the winning caption for a cartoon in the Fall issue of Modern Dog magazine.
Michael Aaron Gallagher’s quote on Gingerade bottle of GT’s Raw Kombucha.
In 2018, his short story “When Dorothy Met Alice” received First Place at the 41st Annual Oz-Stravaganza festival, where it was read to the audience by special guest Tom Hutchison, Co-founder of Big Dog Ink Comics and the writer/creator of “The Legend of Oz.”
In 2024, his “Words of Enlightenment” were featured on the 16-ounce and 48-ounce Gingerade bottles of GT’s Synergy Raw Kombucha. The quote by Michael Aaron Gallagher reads, “Love more than you need to, give more than you are asked.” His pet photography was also printed in the Thousand Islands Sun newspaper, which has been published weekly since 1901.
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