Humanisitic Journalism:
How Readers, Blogs, Reality TV and 9/11 Helped Change Newspapers Forever
Newspaper writing styles have become much more humanistic and inclusive in the last seven years – highlighting more stories about Everyman, more features on the front pages, pushing hard news off the radar screen and replacing it with soft news. The way reporters write these stories, editors place them and readers demand them has revolutionized what more that 200 million Americans read in their papers each day. What does this mean for journalism? And what does this say about us?
Duration: approximately 58 minutes
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About the Presenter
Michele Weldon (J79, GJ80), assistant professor, undergraduate editorial programs, Medill School of Journalism
An award-winning writer for more than 25 years, Michele Weldon is nationally recognized as an authority on the power of writing and an advocate for women’s issues. A journalist, author, keynote speaker and assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Weldon uses her words to inform and inspire.
Weldon travels around the country and Canada as a keynote speaker on women’s issues and has delivered more than 150 keynotes and lectures on a variety of topics since 1992. As a freelancer and contributing writer, Weldon has written personal essays as well as news, feature articles and columns for hundreds of newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Dallas Times Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago magazine, Woman’s Day, Parenting, Writer’s Digest, Dial and many other publications. She continues to write regularly for the Chicago Tribune, West Suburban Living, Chicago Parent and Writer’s Digest.
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