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Mei-Ling Hopgood

Mei-Ling Hopgood

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William F. Thomas Professor

Phone:847-491-2185Email:mhopgood@northwestern.eduOffice: MFC 2-125

Mei-Ling Hopgood is a freelance journalist and writer who has written for various publications, ranging from the National Geographic Traveler and Marie Claire to the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe. She has worked as a reporter with the Detroit Free Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in the Cox Newspapers Washington bureau.

Awards And Honors: Hopgood is a recipient of the National Headliner Best in Show, ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and several other investigative and enterprise journalism awards.
Authored Works: She is the author of "Lucky Girl" (April 2009) and "How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm" (Feb. 2012).