Lorrie Lynch

Lorrie Lynch is the senior editor and personalities columnist for USA Weekend Magazine.She interviews entertainment figures and writes the lively Who's News column in the Sunday magazine, which has more than 23 million circulation, and produces a daily Who's News Blog (blogs.usaweekend.com). Lynch is a longtime celebrity writer whose conversations with George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Taylor and more have been USA Weekend cover stories. Lynch moved to USA Weekend from USA TODAY, where she was a founding staff member. As a reporter in the News section she covered national stories and Washington politics. As the paper's San Francisco Bureau Chief she covered Western issues and reported the beginning of the nation's AIDS crisis. As an editor in the Life section, she was responsible for the paper's daily celebrity coverage. Lynch worked for newspapers in Port Huron, Ypsilanti, Traverse City, Mt. Pleasant and Battle Creek, Michigan. She also worked for The Sacramento Bee and The Marin County Independent Journal, both in California.Lynch has a B.A. in Journalism from Central Michigan University, where she was editor of the award winning campus newspaper CM LIFE.Lynch told an Michigan Interscholastic Press Association press conference in August 2007 that she began thinking about writing in second grade because she would get encouragement from her grandmother about writing when she wrote letters.

Lynch also is the author of "Exploring Journalism and the Media", a high school journalism text book published by Cengage Learning in March 2008.

This information is based on an MIPA press conference on August 6th, 2007