Elizabeth Mehren

Professor of Journalism

BA, MJ, University of California, Berkeley

As a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Elizabeth Mehren wrote news, feature, and magazine stories about events ranging from presidential politics to the Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal to the Olympic Games and the Academy Awards. Mehren worked for the paper in California, covering state and regional news. As a member of the paper’s Washington bureau, she wrote about politics and the White House. In New York, she pioneered the paper’s publishing beat and also produced feature and hard-news stories. For 15 years she served as New England bureau chief, reporting from a six-state region. Mehren previously served as a reporter and news editor at the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and the Hayward (California) Daily Review. She has written for many national magazines. Mehren is the author of After the Darkest Hour (Simon & Schuster) and Born Too Soon (Doubleday/Kensington Books), which was made into a television movie. She is the co-author of Overcoming Infertility. Professor Mehren also has extensive experience in radio and television, appearing on The Today Show, Fox News, CNN, and elsewhere. She was won several national awards and was a fellow at the University of Maryland’s Casey Journalism Center, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism.