Michele McLellan
consultant, Knight Digital Media Center
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On Twitter: @michelemclellan
Michele McLellan is a consultant who helps news organizations, online news startups, and news entrepreneurs adapt to a dynamic emerging local media environment. She is lead programming consultant with Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg and KDMC News Leadership 3.0 blogger. As a 2009-10 Reynolds Journalism Fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism, she developed Michele's List of promising online community news start ups and is organizing Block by Block: Community News Summit 2010 Sept. 23-24 in Chicago. Michele also works as a Circuit Rider for the Knight Foundation, advising foundation-funded news and information projects around the United States. From 2003-07, she directed Tomorrow's Workforce, a $2.5 million Knight Foundation project that demonstrated the link between strategic newsroom training, newsroom culture and a news organization's ability to adapt and innovate. She is a journalist who worked for more than 25 years as an editor and manager in newspapers, most recently at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2001-02, she has taught journalism and journalism ethics nationally and internationally, developed online courses for News University, 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." She has been invited to make presentations at the conventions of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press Managing Editors. She has been an Ethics Fellow and guest faculty in leadership at the Poynter Institute.
KDMC Sessions
Next Steps
July 31, 2010, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Video: Michele McLellan: Next Steps
Presentation: Michele McLellan: Next Steps
SEMINAR: Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute
Opening Lunch
July 29, 2010, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Video: Welcome and introductions; Discussion of Institute plan and expectations
Presentation: Michele McLellan: Welcome and introductions
SEMINAR: Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute
Next Steps
March 25, 2010, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
SEMINAR: Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp
Presentations—Show Time!
March 25, 2010, 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
SEMINAR: Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp
Welcome and Introductions
March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Archived boot camp live blog
SEMINAR: Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp
Break-out Groups and Work Sessions With Coaches
July 20, 2009, 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
SEMINAR: News Leadership 2009
Break-out Groups and Work Sessions With Coaches
July 19, 2009, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
SEMINAR: News Leadership 2009
Welcome and Introductions: Who You Are and What You Plan to Do
July 19, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
SEMINAR: News Leadership 2009
Why Am I Afraid This Won’t Work – Managing People and Resources
June 07, 2009, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Leading Change in Your News Organization
SEMINAR: Transforming Ethnic News Organizations for the Digital Now
Project Discussions: Participants work with teams in break-out sessions with mentors/coaches
June 06, 2009, 3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
SEMINAR: Transforming Ethnic News Organizations for the Digital Now
Laying the Foundation
July 15, 2008, 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
SEMINAR: Transforming News Organizations for the Digital Now
