Mac McClelland

Mac McClelland.
Mac McClelland at the SPJ Awards Dinner, 2010.

Mac McClelland is an American author and journalist. She was formerly the human rights reporter for Mother Jones magazine.,[1] and has written for Rolling Stone,[2] The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.

She has covered both domestic and foreign stories, with international locations including Thailand, Haiti, Australia, Burma, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bhutan. She has won several awards for her coverage of the BP oil spill and feature writing, and has commentated for outlets including MSNBC,[3] PBS,[4] NPR,[5] Democracy Now!,[6] the BBC, and Al Jazeera. She has been described variously as trustworthy by Newsweek,[7] “a total bad-ass” by The American Prospect,[8] and “a profane young bisexual” by the Wall Street Journal.[9]

Recognition

In April 2011, McClelland was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.[10]

In April 2013, McClelland was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.[11]

In August 2011 she won 1st place in Outstanding Beat Reporting from the Society for Environmental Journalists for team coverage of the BP oil spill.[12]

In August 2011 the Dayton Literary Peace Prize named her book a finalist for that year's award.[13]

In June 2010, she received the Sidney Award for her coverage of the BP oil spill in “Depression, Abuse, Suicide: Fishermen's Wives Face Post-Spill Trauma,” published on MotherJones.com.[14][15]

In October 2010, she received two Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, one for her role in the breaking news coverage of the BP oil spill,[16] and she was also recognized as the 2010 Outstanding Emerging Journalist.[16] She received SPJ Awards for Feature Writing in 2012 and 2013 as well.

Also in October 2010, she received an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association as part of Mother Jones' team coverage of the BP oil spill for "Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Medium Site" [17]

In December 2010, her book was chosen as one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Bay Area-author books of 2010[18]

In 2013, she won a Clarion Award for Feature Writing,[19] and another in 2014.[20]

McClelland was a 2013 Webby Awards official honoree.

In 2013, McClelland was shortlisted for the MOLLY National Journalism Prize.

Controversy

In July 2011, McClelland wrote a personal essay about countering her posttraumatic stress disorder with violent sex, with some journalists defending it[21][22][23] and other journalists criticizing it.[24][25] When it was alleged that McClelland had written about a Haitian rape victim against that victims' wishes in the essay in question,[26] some who had initially praised the essay condemned her for a breach of ethics.[27][28][29]

Books

References

  1. ↑ "Mac McClelland". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  2. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/rupaul-the-king-of-queens-20131004
  3. ↑ Michael Nelson /. "Countdown with Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann". MSNBC. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  4. ↑ Archived August 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Talk of the Nation. "Op-Ed: Reporters Covering Oil Spill Stymied". NPR. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  6. ↑ "Media Clampdown in the Gulf Coast: Government and BP Place More Restrictions on Journalists Covering the Oil Spill". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  7. ↑ Dailey, Kate. DNA Who Can You Trust? Oil Spill Edition
  8. ↑ "What's in a Pen Name?". The American Prospect. 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  9. ↑ Delves, Philip (2010-05-14). "Book review: Four Books on Burma". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  10. ↑ Fund for Investigative Journalism. National Magazine Award Finalist
  11. ↑ http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/04/mother-jones-nominated-four-national-magazine-awards
  12. ↑ Society of Environmental Journalists Winners: SEJ 10th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment
  13. ↑ Dayton Literary Peace Prize Celebrating the Power of Literature to Promote Peace, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Announces 2011 Finalists
  14. ↑ "Mac McClelland Wins June Sidney for Mother Jones Story About the Impact of the Oil Spill on Fishermen’s Wives in the Gulf". Hillman Foundation. 2010-07-15. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  15. ↑ Mac McClelland (2010-06-25). "Depression, Abuse, Suicide: Fishermen's Wives Face Post-Spill Trauma". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  16. 1 2 "We Have a New Site!". Spjnorcal.org. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  17. ↑ http://journalists.org/news/51780/MSNBC.com-NPR-Pro-Publica-and-CNN.com-take-top-honors-at-2010-Online-Journalism-Awards.htm
  18. ↑ "Best of 2010 - Books by Bay Area authors". SFGate. 2010-12-19. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  19. ↑ http://www.womcom.org/awards/Clarion2013.asp
  20. ↑ http://www.womcom.org/wp/clarion-awards/2014-clarion-winners/#Magazines
  21. ↑ Gay, Roxanne. Still with the Scarlet Letters July 05, 2011.
  22. ↑ Reeve, Elspeth. "Reenacting Rape Is Fine, Just Don't Call Haiti a Hellhole", The Atlantic. July 02, 2011.
  23. ↑ Friedersdorf, Connor. How to Talk About Haiti's Rape Epidemic. The Atlantic.
  24. ↑ Haiti Made Me Do It The Root. July 03, 2011. Retrieved July 09, 2011.
  25. ↑ Various. "Female Journalists & Researchers Respond To Haiti PTSD Article", Open letter posted on Jezebel. July 2011. Retrieved July 09, 2011.
  26. ↑ Danticat, Edwidge (2011-07-10). "Edwidge Danticat Speaks on Mac McClelland Essay". Essence. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  27. ↑ "On Journalistic Malpractice, Mac McClelland, and Haiti". Mediahacker. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  28. ↑ "In Which I Wade Further into the McClelland Morass, Demonstrating That I Have No Sense of Self-Preservation". Wronging Rights. 2011-07-12. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  29. ↑ "Mac McClelland and ethical story-telling". Feministing. 2011-07-12. Retrieved 2013-12-05.

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