Michele Weldon

Michele Weldon is an author, journalist, keynote speaker, and assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Biography

Education

Michele Weldon received both her BSJ (1979) and MSJ (1980) at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Career

Weldon has written feature articles and columns, personal essays, and news for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Dallas Times Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, Woman’s Day, Parenting, Writer’s Digest, Dial, and many other publications. At the Dallas Times Herald, she was a columnist and feature writer. She also worked as a Midwestern market editor for Fairchild Publications, associate editor for ADWEEK magazine, and managing editor for North Shore Magazine.^[1]

Weldon is the owner and instructor of Writing to Save Your Life Workshops and continues to work as a national and international keynote speaker. She is a contributor to the Chicago Tribune, West Suburban Living and womensenews.com.

Awards

• 2007 Illinois Women’s Press Association, First Place, column writing
• 20 Years, 20 Heroes Award from Between Friends for Advocacy for Women
• 2006 Association for Educators in Journalism & Mass Communications
• 2005 Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy
• 2003 May Sarah’s Inn Visionary Award
• 2002 Chicago Women In Publishing, Excellence Award, Nonfiction Book
• 2000 International Women’s Peacepower Media Award, Nonfiction Book
• 2000 Bread and Roses Individual Courage Award in Publishing
• 1997 First Place, National League of American Pen Women, Essay Contest
• 1996 First Place, Writer’s Digest 1996 Writing Competition, Personal Essay
• 1988 Best Newspaper Columnist, Dallas Psychological Association

Bibliography

• I Closed My Eyes (1999) ISBN 1568387423
• Writing To Save Your Life: How To Honor Your Story Through Journaling (2001) ISBN 1568387423
• Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page (2008) ISBN 082621777X

Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page

Everyman News deals with the shift of newspaper content from hard news to more personal, narrative feature journalism. The rise in the use of unofficial sources, the decline in the “inverted pyramid” form of news writing, and the humanization of news are all indicative of this transition. Weldon discusses American culture’s fascination with personal stories and how newspapers alter their content to the readers’ demands.

The book also takes a look at how forces outside of the newspaper, such as blogs, citizen journalism, and newsroom diversity have helped evolve the newspaper to become the story paper. Using hundreds of excerpts from newspapers and interviews with people connected to journalism, Weldon takes an in-depth look at the modern newspaper.

References

1. ^ http://www.micheleweldon.com/aboutmichele.html

External links

Biography portal

• Michele Weldon Home Page
• Michele Weldon Medill Faculty Page
• University of Missouri Press Page
• Everyman News Page

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