Michele Weldon

Journalism can be much more than reporting. An authentic, human narrative touches audiences and keeps them reading. Learn how to shape a human-centered news story, and the importance of f...

He is not the first politician to say the wrong thing. Nor will he be the last. Missouri's beleaguered Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin made - and by now most everyone on the planet likely knows - the "legitimate rape" comment. And the firestorm of push back has been relentless. What differentiates Akin's conundrum from the junkyard of...

In the media this week were several pairs of breasts belonging to the famous and the now infamous-- Adrienne, Kate, Rihanna, Kris-- as if each set was as important as all other critical b...

Award-winning journalist and author Michele Weldon offers a distinctly honest and articulate portrayal of the domestic violence she experienced in a nine-year marriage to a man many considered to be the perfect husband. As an assistant professor of journalism at the Medill School, Northwestern University since 1996, public speaker, journalist fo...

Using her background as a journalist, professor of journalism, author and storyteller, Michele Weldon masterfully outlines the steps for you to tell your own story. Whether you intend to ...

My three sons are happy to leave home -- and I'm fine with that.

Editor's note: Michele Weldon is an author and an assistant professor of journalism at the Medill School, Northwestern University. She is a seminar leader with The OpEd Project. She recen...

Unlike most of my peers in journalism school in the Watergate Era of the 1970s, I did not want to be like Carl Bernstein or Bob Woodward -- even though he was much better looking. I wante...