Michele Weldon

An award-winning journalist for newspapers, magazines, websites and radio for more than 25 years, Ms. Weldon’s third book, Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page, was released in January 2008 from the University of Missouri Press. Ms. Weldon is an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism teaching more than 200 journalism students each year in the fundamental skills courses on writing and reporting.

She has written new and features for scores of major daily newspapers,

websites and radio such as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Dallas Times Herald, New York Times and Minnesota Public Radio. She has also written for major magazines such as Woman’s Day, Parenting, Dial, Seventeen, Writer’s Digest and many others. She writes regularly for Writers’ Digest and West Suburban Living magazines.