Micheline Maynard
Biography
Micheline Maynard
Micheline Maynard
is a reporter with the New York Times, based in Detroit,
where she writes about the automobile industry and the airline
industry. A seasoned journalist, her work has appeared in
Fortune magazine, and she has been a staff writer with a
number of publications including USA TODAY, Newsday,
U.S. News & World Report, and the Reuters News
Service. She began her career as a legislative correspondent for
United Press International in Lansing, Mich., and she served
as an intern in the White House Press Office during the Carter
Administration.
Micki has been awarded three of journalism's most prestigious
fellowships. In 2002, she was named a media fellow by the Japan
Society of New York, which allowed her to spend three months in
Japan conducting research for THE END OF DETROIT. In 1999-2000, she
was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where
she began the work on the book. And in 1989-1990, she was chosen as
a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at
Columbia University.
She is the author of two other books. COLLISION COURSE: Inside the
Battle for General Motors, published in 1995, told the inside story
of GM's financial collapse and the boardroom coup that brought it
back to life. In 1998, her second book, THE GLOBAL MANUFACTURING
VANGUARD, was published. It outlined the strategies used by the
world's best manufacturing companies in expanding their operations
beyond their home countries.
Micki is a lecturer on the Global Auto Industry at the University
of Michigan business school, where she has taught MBA students
about the challenges that the industry faces. And, she has written
and performed in three cabaret productions.
Micki was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up nearby. She is a
graduate of Michigan State University. In her spare time, you will
find her tending the perennial garden of her 1920 Sears Craftsman
bungalow, practicing yoga, or indulging in her love of classic and
contemporary film.
Micheline Maynard
