Michelle Levander
Editor and Founding Director
Editor and Founding Director
My life has been enriched by work as a reporter, editor and, currently, as a journalism educator.
In 2004, I became founding director of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism. Before that I worked in daily journalism in California at the San Jose Mercury News and in Asia for the Asian Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine Asia. I also spent a year in Mexico, studying and later writing about immigrants and the tug North as an Inter American Press Association Fellow at El Colegio de Mexico and El Colegio de Michoacan. I'm a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and UC Berkeley.
To learn more about the initiatives I've launched and now manage at the Center, click here.
I welcome your feedback and ideas on the work we do. Please contact me at editor@centerforhealthjournalism.org.
With violent attacks proliferating, journalists have an obligation to root out hatred and racism.
Eight journalists will undertake ambitious explanatory or investigative reporting on underserved communities in the state.
Twenty one journalists from around the nation join the USC Center for Health Journalism this week to take part in the 2020 Data Fellowship. Welcome!
This week, we’re proud to welcome 23 journalists from around the nation to our annual 2020 National Fellowship.
As protests engulf our nation, now is the time to redouble our commitment to journalism that leads to a more just and equitable society.
Announcing “Covering Coronavirus,” a special webinar series that will provide urgent tips, resources and insights for anyone tracking the COVID-19 pandemic.
We want to know how the Center for Health Journalism can best support journalists who are covering the coronavirus. Please take this survey to share your thoughts.
Thanks to the promising ideas of 20 talented California reporters, we stand to see important new reporting through our 2020 California Fellowship, which we're hosting online this week.
The Center for Health Journalism has awarded $25,000 in reporting grants from our Impact Fund to help California journalists undertake ambitious explanatory or investigative reporting about health issues in underserved communities in the state.
Eighteen journalists from around the nation will join us this week for the Center for Health Journalism's 2019 Data Fellowship.