- Michele McLellan is a journalist and consultant who works on projects that help foster a healthy local news ecosystem. Her principal clients are the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Knight Digital Media Center at the University of Southern California.
- Building on her fellowship at RJI, McLellan continues her independent research into the emerging community news landscape with support from The Patterson Foundation.
- From 2003-2007, McLellan was director of Tomorrow’s Workforce, a Knight Foundation project that developed tools and training to make newsrooms more adaptive. Based on that work, she was co-author of the book News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms Are Learning to Change.
- McLellan held a variety of posts as an editor at The Oregonian newspaper, including politics editor, special projects editor and public editor (ombudsman).
- As a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2001-02, McLellan focused on interdisciplinary ethics. She was principal author of The Newspaper Credibility Handbook for the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2001.
Michele McLellan
2009-2010
- Reynolds Fellow
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
Email:
michele.mclellan@gmail.com
Project: Community News Sites
As a Reynolds Fellow, McLellan developed Michele’s List of promising local news sites and organized Block by Block: Community News Summit 2010, a gathering of more than 100 local news entrepreneurs. A second annual summit will be held in Fall 2011.
Articles by Michele McLellan
Block by Block: 3 years, important lessons
November 19, 2012Why non-profit news sites need to act more like digital businesses
October 20, 2011Michele McLellan weighs in on getting local
October 18, 2011How did we do? Post-summit survey results
October 10, 2011
Articles about Michele McLellan
