Michele McLellan

Greater Chicago Area United States

Creator of Michele's List at Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism

Human Resources / Recruitment

I am journalist, editor and consultant who works on projects that help foster a healthy local news ecosystem. I founded the Block by Block: Community News Summit, a network of small, entrepreneurial local news sites, in 2010, based on my work as a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow in 2009-10. I also advise local online news projects on behalf of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and develop training programs for them at Knight Digital Media Center at USC-Annenberg. Previously, I 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 an