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Micheline Maynard

@MickiMaynard

<a href="http://michelinemaynard.com/">Micheline Maynard</a> is the senior editor of <a href="http://www.changinggears.info/">Changing Gears</a>. After joining the staff of The New York Times in 2004, she served as its Detroit bureau chief and aviation reporter. She became a senior business correspondent in 2008 and was a lead reporter in the paper’s coverage of the automobile industry bailout. She is the author of four books including her most recent, “<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307589439">The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream</a>,” published by Random House in 2009.

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