Thought Leader: Michele McLellan

Michele McLellan is a journalist and consultant who helps news and community organizations adapt in a dynamic online media environment. She coaches community start ups as a Knight Foundation Circuit Rider. She is lead programming consultant for Knight Digital Media Center at the University of Southern California. As a a 2009-10 fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, Michele founded Block by Block: Community News Summit, a network of independent online community news publishers.

Michele worked for more than 25 years as an editor and manager for newspapers, including at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, from 1984-2001. Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2001-2002, McLellan has taught journalism and journalism ethics nationally and internationally, developed online courses for News University at The Poynter Institute, and is an author of two books, The Newspaper Credibility Handbook and, with Tim Porter, News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change.

Michele has written the essay, The Value of Duty as part of the IVOH Voices & Values of Journalism Project - listen to and read the entire collection of essays here.

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