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Highlights of Published Articles
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Jill Michaels, a native of Twin Falls, Idaho, decided in 1999 to establish a career as a freelance writer. Her first article was published in 2000 in TvZona, then a weekly TV guide in Tucson, Arizona. A tourist trip to view a space shuttle launch that same year landed her a cover story with TvZona.
That milestone event marked the beginning of Michaels’ fruitful media relationship with NASA. To date she has attended four space shuttle launches and followed those missions (STS-99, STS-101, STS-98 and STS-111) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida.
Michaels, a resident of Bay Area Houston since July 2007, has covered and will continue to cover shuttle flights (STS-120, STS-126, STS-119, and STS-125—the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission) from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in southeast Houston. She has conducted numerous interviews with current and former astronauts during the past nine years.
To date, Michaels has published 42 freelance articles in the U.S., Australia and the U.K.:
· 18 stories in 7 different U.S. newspapers (The Times-News in Idaho; Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and Star-Gazette in New York State; Cohasset Mariner in Massachusetts; Appeal Tribune in Oregon; The Bowie Blade-News in Maryland, and Camas-Washougal Post-Record in Washington State);
· 21 stories in 9 different U.S. magazines (TvZona and The Carefree Enterprise Magazine in Arizona; SW Aviator in New Mexico; Go and Life in the Finger Lakes in New York State; IDAHO Magazine; Bay Runner and The SCENE in Texas, and Air & Space/Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.);
· 1 in an Australian magazine (Qantas: The Australian Way), and
· 2 in British magazines (BOARDS and DIVER).
Of these 42 articles, 14 have been published as cover stories.
Her relocation to the southeastern area of Houston and her actual working experience at NASA have strengthened Michaels’ professional niche as a space-savvy freelance writer. Her writing references include:
· a former astronaut living in Arizona;
· David H. Levy—astronomer/writer and science editor of PARADE Magazine, and
· Sean D. Tucker—aerobatic pilot and seasoned airshow aviator.
Michaels welcomes e-mails or article commissions from magazine editors and newspaper editors from around the globe. She especially enjoys writing articles for astronauts’ hometown newspapers and for the airlines’ in-flight magazines. Michaels is also available as a consultant for any professional writing or editing needs (film or television writers must be represented by either an agent or an attorney).
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MAGAZINE CLIPS
MAGAZINE NAME
AND LOCATION |
ARTICLE TITLE
(NOTES) |
PUBLICATION DATE |
PAGES |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“Bookman’s: A Familiar ‘Third Place’ ”
(well-known used book store in Tucson) |
March 25-31, 2000
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16 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“Arizona Illustrated: The Best-Kept Secret in Town”
(PBS newsmagazine in Tucson) |
April 15-21, 2000
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16 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“Bobby & Brad: ‘Planned Spontaneity’ on 94.9 MIXfm”
(morning radio DJs in Tucson) |
April 22-28, 2000
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17 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“Launching the Space Shuttle: Rocket Science Is Not an Exact Science”
COVER STORY
(“Tucson in Space” series, part 1 of 9) |
June 24-30, 2000
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8 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“Watching a Space Shuttle Launch: Up on the Roof”
(“Tucson in Space” series, part 2 of 9) |
July 1-7, 2000
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16 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“The New ‘Glass Cockpit’ for Shuttle Atlantis”
(“Tucson in Space” series, part 3 of 9) |
July 8-14, 2000
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16 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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“Local News in a Metro Area”
(“Northwest Explorer” newspaper in Tucson) |
July 8-14, 2000
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16 |
TvZona Weekly:
Southern Arizona’s Media Guide
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(Kitt Peak Observatory; “Tucson in Space” series, part 4 of 9) |
July 15-21, 2000
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16 |
The Carefree Enterprise Magazine
Carefree, Arizona |
“David H. Levy: Comet Hunter at Large”
(originally written for TvZona’s “Tucson in Space” series, part 8 of 9; rewritten and placed elsewhere) |
October 2001 |
10-11 |
The Carefree Enterprise Magazine
Carefree, Arizona |
“STS-67: A Shuttle Bus Tour of the Universe” |
June/July 2002 |
12-13 |
SW Aviator
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
“Tucson: Moseying Around the Old Pueblo” |
November/December 2003 |
18-23 |
SW Aviator
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
“Bay Area Houston: Sailing in Water, Air and Space”
COVER STORY |
September/October 2004 |
14-17, 26 |
Qantas: The Australian Way
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
(Qantas Airways in-flight magazine) |
“Watch This Space”
(Australian astronaut Andy Thomas) |
April 2005 |
108 |
Go
New York, New York, and
London, ENGLAND
(AirTran Airways in-flight magazine) |
“Moonlighting to the Max”
(Max Q, astronaut rock-and-roll band) |
April/May 2005 |
40-41 |
Life in the Finger Lakes
Geneva, New York |
COVER STORY
(astronaut Eileen Collins, first woman shuttle pilot and subsequent shuttle commander) |
Summer 2005 |
40-46 |
Boise, Idaho |
“The Discovery Countdown”
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August 2005 |
50-57 |
BOARDS
The UK’s No. 1 Windsurfing Magazine
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(British-American astronaut Mike Foale) |
July 2006 |
69-73 |
DIVER
Britain’s Best-Selling Diving Magazine
Teddington, Middlesex, ENGLAND |
“How Scuba Helps Us in Space”
COVER STORY
(British-born astronauts Mike Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick) |
May 2007 |
28-29, 31-33, 35-36 |
Bay Runner
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“Max Q: Astronaut Band Wings Music at Mach 25”
FEATURE STORY |
October 2007 |
8-9 |
Bay Runner
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“Chris Hadfield—International Recording Artist Turned Astronaut” |
January 2008 |
8-9 |
Bay Runner
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“50 Years of Reaching for the Stars: NASA’s Golden Anniversary” |
Event Season 2008
(Summer 2008) |
16, 18 |
The SCENE
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“Charging Around the Z-Axis with Eric W.D. Tucker”
(aerobatic pilot and airshow aviator) |
November 2008 |
32, 33 |
The SCENE
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“Sean D. Tucker—Still Passionately Living His Dreams”
(aerobatic pilot and airshow aviator) |
November 2008 |
32, 33 |
Air & Space/Smithsonian
Washington, D.C. |
“Family Formation”
(Eric W.D. Tucker and Sean D. Tucker) |
March 17, 2009 |
WEB |
NEWSPAPER CLIPS
NEWSPAPER NAME
AND LOCATION |
ARTICLE TITLE
(NOTES) |
PUBLICATION DATE |
PAGES |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Helping Hands: More than 700 students help clean up Auger Falls” |
Saturday,
April 9, 2005 |
A-4 |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Children launch water bottle rockets”
(National Astronomy Day) |
Sunday,
April 10, 2005 |
B-1,
B-7 |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Council tables Canyon Rim Road question” |
Tuesday,
April 12, 2005 |
B-1 |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Going to College: Sixth-graders get a taste of higher education for a day” |
Wednesday,
April 13, 2005 |
B-1 |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Lego My Rover: Sawtooth students build Mars rovers out of Legos” |
Saturday,
April 23, 2005 |
A-4 |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Former Boeing engineer discusses a city in space”
(International Space Station) |
Sunday,
May 1, 2005 |
B-4 |
The Times-News
Twin Falls, Idaho |
“Hubble to Herrett: Astronomer loves to teach”
COVER STORY
(astronomer Chris Anderson) |
Tuesday,
May 3, 2005 |
A-1,
A-2 |
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport, New York |
“Bill Gregory looks back on his shuttle mission”
COVER STORY |
Sunday,
March 5, 2006 |
1A, 9A |
Star-Gazette
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Monday,
October 22, 2007 |
1A, 6A |
Star-Gazette
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“Hometown roots still run deep for Collins”
(astronaut Eileen Collins) |
Monday,
October 22, 2007 |
6A |
Cohasset Mariner
Cohasset, Massachusetts |
“Cohasset native part of Endeavour team”
(astronaut Steve Bowen) |
Friday,
November 14, 2008 |
7 |
Appeal Tribune
Silverton, Oregon |
“Silverton’s astronaut shares details of life in space”
COVER STORY
(astronaut Don Pettit) |
Wednesday,
November 26, 2008 |
1A, 8B |
Cohasset Mariner
Cohasset, Massachusetts |
“On top of the world: Cohasset astronaut shares experience”
COVER STORY
(astronaut Steve Bowen) |
Friday,
January 23, 2009 |
1, 7 |
Cohasset Mariner
Cohasset, Massachusetts |
“Astronauts attend post-flight briefing: Bowen could visit Cohasset”
(astronaut Steve Bowen) |
Friday,
January 23, 2009 |
7 |
The Bowie Blade-News
Bowie, Maryland |
“Local man blasts off in two weeks”
COVER STORY
(astronaut Ricky Arnold) |
Thursday,
February 5, 2009 |
A1, A2 |
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport, New York |
“Lockport astronaut discusses life after NASA”
COVER STORY
(astronaut Bill Gregory) |
Sunday,
March 1, 2009 |
1A, 5A |
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport, New York |
“Bill Gregory’s family and crewmate remember STS-67”
COVER STORY |
Monday,
March 2, 2009 |
1A, 4A |
Camas-Washougal Post-Record
Camas, Washington |
“Ready for takeoff”
COVER STORY
(astronaut Mike Barratt) |
Tuesday,
March 3, 2009 |
A1, A3 |
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