Wilson Journalist

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I’m currently an Associate Editor at Audubon magazine and Assistant Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

I’ve been at Audubon since February 2009, where I head the magazine’s social media efforts, and write and fact-check for the print publication and our blog, The Perch. My feature about volunteers helping after the oil spill became the Nov-Dec 2010 cover story.

For the past four years, since I graduated Columbia with a Master’s degree in Journalism, I’ve been the managing editor for one of two student-run publications. In this role, I create the production schedule, help students with story ideas, and do anything else that producing a magazine entails. At the end of the semester, the students come away with a real publication. In 2011, the class wrote, produced, and ran StarringNYC, an all-digital magazine and the site on which the 2012 class will build. In 2009 and 2010, the class created the print magazines MagNet and Link, respectively.

I’m also a freelance writer and editor. I’ve written articles for publications such as (201) Magazine (my piece about the Apollo Theater’s musical director was the cover story for the April 2009 issue) and for HealthLeaders Magazine. Recent editing projects include the books The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Unfurling: A Mixed Media Workshop, and Typography Referenced, all from Quarry Books and scheduled for release in late 2011 or early 2012. For that publisher, I’ve also edited several food books including The Art and Craft of Coffee, Wine Lover’s Devotional, and The Cook’s Book of Intense Flavors.

In addition to appearing in Audubon and (201) Magazine, my work has run on CJR.org, The New York Review of Magazines, FIT Magazine, The Queens Ledger and the Queens Chronicle. You can reach me at michele [at] wilsonjournalist.com.

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last updated January 2012