WELCOME! I’m Mary Ellen Walsh, an
award-winning freelance writer (Zap Holiday Stress) 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—the
athletic golden retriever from the movies,
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 the
New York Daily
News, LI Pulse,
Long Island Press,
Newsday’s Wellness
magazine, e-zines and many others.
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 Laszlow 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. I
would stare at the lobby portrait of founder Alicia Patterson shoveling a
mound of dirt in a groundbreaking ceremony. I listened to Quality Control
Manager Bill Schindler tell stories of Newsday’s humble beginnings
produced on a shoestring budget out of a Hempstead garage. I witnessed a
euphoric day when Newsday went color. Resonating with the buzz of news
making, I spent decades in various media-related roles.
My father, a freelance graphic artist and mother, an
insurance manager, gave me a balanced creative/business upbringing where
words, whether in novels or news, were treasured, challenged and always
shared. Now, my three children have that same reverence for creativity
and language. (see
words my kids
have created)
Thanks for visiting! Enjoy browsing the site.
