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Association for Women Journalists


Michele Weldon
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
Author, Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page
National keynote speaker
Contact: 847-491-2064, m-weldon@northwestern.edu or micheleweldon@msn.com
For more information: www.everymannews.com, www.micheleweldon.com

An award-winning journalist for newspapers, magazines, websites and radio for more than 25 years, Michele Weldon’s third nonfiction book, Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page was released in January 2008 from the University of Missouri Press. 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. 

Her first book, a creative nonfiction memoir, I Closed My Eyes (Hazelden, 1999), has been translated into seven languages and was featured with her second book on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in June and October, 2002. Weldon’s second book, Writing to Save Your Life (Hazelden, 2001), has been translated into four languages and is used by therapists and medical professionals in the field of narrative therapy. She received a trademark for the term “scribotherapy” in 2004 and won the Chicago Women in Publishing 2002 Excellence Award in nonfiction for her second book.

This is the basis of her Writing to Save Your Life Workshops given in Chicago and around the country since 1999 and is considered important to the field of narrative therapy. Weldon was a co-investigator on a study at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University on the role of written narrative in the physical and emotional health of caregivers.   

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

As a popular public speaker, Weldon has delivered more than 150 keynotes across the country and Canada. She has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows in the United States, Europe and Canada including “Oprah,”  “Jenny Jones,” “NBC’s Later Today,” “ABC Sunday Morning,” CBS2 Morning News, and BBC-TV.

She received the Rainbow House Individual Courage Award in 2000, Women’s Peacepower Award in 2001 and the Visionary Award 2003 from Sarah’s Inn for advocacy work on behalf of women and children. In 2005, Weldon received the Donna Allen Award from the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication for feminist advocacy. In 2006 she received one of the “20 Heroes, 20 Years” award from Between Friends, Chicago, a domestic violence prevention advocacy program. In 2007, she won first place in the IWPA humor column category for her work at West Suburban Living Magazine.   

The mother of three sons, Weldon lives in Chicago. She is a member of Journalism & Women Symposium, an international non-profit organization for women in print, broadcast and online journalism as well as university-level educators in journalism, and has served on their board of directors. Weldon is also a member of Illinois Woman’s Press Association, the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications, Society of Midland Authors, Association for Women Journalists-Chicago, National Association of Women Writers and Chicago Women in Publishing.  

She is completing a fourth book, a creative non-fiction narrative about her sons’ involvement in high school wrestling and her own battle with breast cancer.

 
 
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