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Michele Weldon

@micheleweldon

Michele Weldon is an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the author of three books, and a journalist for more than 30 years. She is a seminar leader and mentor/editor for The OpEd Project and recently completed a second memoir, “Escape Points,” about raising three sons, their high school wrestling careers, and her recovery from cancer.

Journalists and Memoir: Reporting + Memory

‘The story must move beyond a verbal regurgitation of hastily recalled anecdotes. You need to report live from your life, researching with interviews, data and documents that support your recollections.’
December 8, 2011

Tips for Journalists Writing Memoirs

Several journalists have participated in Michele Weldon’s Writing to Save Your Life memoir writing workshops during the past decade. While she finds that journalists are at an advantage because of…
December 8, 2011

Digital Stories Are Being Chosen and Consumed à la Dim Sum

In the absence of a front page—or even a home page, will readers confront a crisis of context? Or will convenience and a self-confidence in judgment triumph?
March 30, 2010

It’s Not the Assignment: It’s the Lessons That Come From It

RELATED ARTICLE“Digital Stories Are Being Chosen and Consumed à la Dim Sum”– Michele WeldonMy students’ assignment seemed straightforward: take a front page of a newspaper and translate it into a…
March 15, 2010