Micheline Maynard

Author, journalist and scholar Micheline Maynard is the senior editor of the Upper Midwest Local Journalism Center, a multi-year project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She oversees Changing Gears: Reinventing the Manufacturing Belt, which will take an in-depth look at ways to revive manufacturing states. The project is co-administered by Chicago Public Radio, Michigan Radio and ideastream in Cleveland, and expects to have its first reports on public radio this fall.

She has written four books, including her latest, The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream which was published in October 2009 by Random House.

The book was excerpted in The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and featured on National Public Radio.

Maynard also wrote the acclaimed 2003 book The End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market, which foresaw the collapse of Detroit carmakers. Also published by Random House, it appeared in paperback in 2004.

Known as Micki, she most recently was a senior business correspondent for The New York Times, where her work has appeared since 2000.

She joined The Times staff in 2004 as a reporter in Business Day, covering the airline industry. She was named Detroit bureau chief in October 2005, where she directed the Times’ coverage of the automobile industry. Maynard became a senior business correspondent in 2008, and played a key role in the paper’s coverage of the automobile industry bailout.

In 2009, she was named the 11^th winner of the annual Nathaniel Nash Award, which honors a Times reporter who excels in business and economics coverage, at home or abroad. Maynard and a team of Times reporters shared two awards from SABEW, a business journalists’ group for their coverage in print and online of the General Motors bankruptcy. She is a six-time winner of the Times’ Publisher’s Award, and is a regular contributor.

She has written for Fortune Magazine, and she has been a staff writer or bureau chief at news organizations including USA TODAY, Newsday, U.S. News & World Report, and the Reuters News Service.

Maynard began her career as a legislative correspondent for United Press International in Lansing, Mich., and served as an intern in the White House Press Office.

She was named a media fellow by the Japan Society of New York in 2002, and also was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 1999-2000. And in 1989-1990, she was chosen as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University.

She holds an undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and a graduate degree from Columbia. Maynard is an adjunct faculty member at the Ross School of Business at Michigan, and has taught at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.