WELCOME! I’m Mary Ellen Walsh, an
award-winning freelance writer (Zap Holiday Stress,
Scenes of Loss) specializing in
women’s issues, health, lifestyles, children and general news. Along with
my expertise as a public relations executive, I have written about
everything from cockroaches to
tobacco laws, doggie Olympics, Air Bud,
children’s food allergies,
cat shows with Jack Hanna,
empty nest syndrome,
healthy dining
out, school board and tax issues,
mobile homeowners' eviction battle,
women entrepreneurs to the
healing power of music.
My work has appeared in
Newsday,
New York Daily
News,
LI Pulse,
Long Island Press,
Wellness, Family,
Canvas,
LI Parenting News,
e-zines and many others.
See my column MEWsings in AOL's new local news
initiative
Patch.com.
Known for reliability and digging deeper into issues,
I combine “a nose for a good story” with resourcefully disseminating
information, crafting publicity pieces or reporting the facts. Timing is
everything! I cover news with tight deadlines as well as having long-term
vision to keep magazine topics fresh.
Check out some of the officials, doctors and
celebrities I’ve interviewed.
Mariel Hemingway, All
My Children's Alicia Minshew and Beth Ehlers,
Dr. Oz,
Joe Frazier, Leslie Sansone,
authors: Julia Cameron,
Jeannette Walls,
Joshua Henkin,
Victoria Lustbader,
Meg Wolitzer, cinematographer of “First Blood”
Andrew
Laszlo and more.
At 18, I fell in love. While working during college
for Newsday (Long Island, New York’s daily newspaper) I served as
the office gopher between production and other departments. There I would
watch stories form in editorial, get pasted up in the composing room,
printed on the giant newsprint rolls, collated and distributed on trucks
and into readers’ hands—news from thought to tangible product. The smell
of ink wafting through the hallways was perfume to me. Afterwards, I
spent decades in various media-related roles.
Feel free to browse about
words my kids created,
excerpts from diaries and my love for Long
Island.
Thanks for visiting! Enjoy browsing the site.
