Winship has written for crooner and actor Frank Sinatra, Bill and Hillary Clinton, actress Julie Andrews, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and historian David McCullough, among many others. The topics he has covered range from Native American history to theories on the origin of the universe to the Korean War.
Winship was nominated for the Writers Guild Award for Excellence in Writing nine times, receiving it in 2004 and 2009 for commentaries written with Bill Moyers. He is co-editor of the book Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues (Public Affairs Television, Inc., 2011).
As union president of the Writers Guild of America, he was a key player in the tumultuous and public 100-day strike from November 2007 to February 2008 that sent TV shows into repeats and halted movie production.
Winner of a 2009 Emmy for writing, Winship has worked for The Discovery and Learning channels, major PBS stations, CBS and National Geographic, among others.
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Schumann Senior Writing Fellow at "Common Dreams"
Immediate past president of Writers Guild East
Honors
Canandaigua native Michael Winship is the Schumann Senior Writing Fellow at the progressive news website Common Dreams, where he writes and edits political analysis and commentary; immediate past president of the Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO; and immediate past chair of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds.
Mr. Winship is a veteran television writer and producer who has created programming for America's major PBS stations, CBS, the Discovery and Learning Channels, A&E, Turner Broadcasting, the Disney Channel, Lifetime, Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) and National Geographic, among others.
In 2008, he joined his longtime friend and colleague Bill Moyers at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and their writing collaboration has been close ever since, working together on the Journal, as well as the public TV series Moyers & Company, the book Bill Moyers: The Conversation Continues and the BillMoyers.com website. They share an Emmy and three Writers Guild Awards for writing excellence. Winship's television work also has been honored by the Christopher, Western Heritage, Genesis and CableACE Awards.
Essays and commentary by Winship, solo or in collaboration with Moyers, have appeared in Salon, Huffington Post, Common Dreams, Truthout, Alternet, Raw Story and many other publications in print and online. From 2011-2015, he was senior writing fellow at the public policy think tank, Demos. As one of the two leaders of the successful, 2007-08 Writers Guild strike against the Hollywood studios and networks, he received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Officers Award.
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