Michelle Faust
Michelle 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 the health collaborative 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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The American Nurses Association reports 8 out of 10 nurses say they frequently work with joint or back pain. The nursing profession has the highest rate…
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Governor Cuomo announced today a milestone for the New York State of Health Marketplace. Of the more than 2 million New Yorkers who’ve signed up for…
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Three seniors in the nursing program at the College at Brockport follow Professor Jennifer Chesebro through a long nondescript room with eight occupied…
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Doctors are less likely to order unneeded repeat tests when they have patient information at their fingertips. A study in the American Journal of Managed…
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In last week’s State of the State Address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour across the state and…
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In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, a positive diagnosis was virtually a death sentence. Today, a person taking Anti-Retroviral medications can live…
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A month into the state’s second health insurance open enrollment period, officials say the state is on-track to getting more New Yorkers insured. WXXI’s…
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The national deadline to enroll in health care during the second year of open enrollment is today, December 15, but New York has extended the deadline…
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Barbara Dyskant joined 30 others who signed up to testify at a hearing in Rochester organized by Richard Gottfried, chair of the Assembly Health…
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Medical researchers are putting a lot of resources into understanding genes as both the causes and solution to many diseases.University of Rochester…