Michelle Faust
Reporter, WXXIMichelle Faust, MA, is a reporter/ producer whose work focuses strongly on issues related to health and health policy. She joined the WXXI newsroom in February 2014, and in short time became the lead producer on the Understanding the Affordable Care Act series. Michelle is a reporter with Side Effects and regularly contributes to The Innovation Trail. Working across media, she also produces packages for WXXI-TV’s weekly news magazine Need to Know.
Before coming to the Northeast, Michelle was Morning Edition Host and Spanish Language Producer at KAWC Colorado River Public Media in Yuma, AZ. At WXXI, she occasionally returns to the early shift as a fill-in host.
Michelle had press credentials before she had a driver's license, working for newspapers in both high school and college. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Romance Languages in 2002 from the University of Oregon. After a year teaching English in Nîmes, France, Michelle returned to UO to complete a Master of Arts in Spanish literature in 2005.
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A new study that associates antidepressant use in pregnancy with autism is no silver bullet.Researchers in Quebec published findings in JAMA Pediatrics…
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Raucous laughter fills a small communal kitchen as ten men shout and joke with each other in Spanish after a long day of picking apples on an orchard in…
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A few days into heroin detox—when you’re still in the throwing-up phase of withdrawal—is not a good time to learn your insurance is refusing to pay for…
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Addiction specialists argue that substance abuse is best treated when it’s managed like any other chronic disease—with specialist care. But the country…
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Victims of domestic violence can qualify to sign up for health coverage outside of the regular open enrollment period. The U.S. Department of Health and…
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AnneMarie Zagari found her teenage son unresponsive on the couch after he took too many opioid painkillers in 2011. She began pounding his chest and…
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The personal details of approximately 10.5 million health insurance customers have been exposed by the latest cyber-attack on the health care…
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The cost of health insurance premiums - the amount you pay each month for your plan - will likely go up in 2016. If state governments approve insurers’…
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Six-year old Jason Green squirms in a dental chair at a clinic in Sodus, New York while a hygienist probes his mouth with an unusual instrument. It looks…
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The rate of suicide among military personnel has more than doubled since 2005. A study released earlier this month in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry…