Mike Wendland

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Mike Wendland, is a technology reporter for the Detroit Free Press. He also has published several books on the internet, appears frequently on Detroit radio stations and has features distributed to NBC affiliates.

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Wendland was born in Bay City, Michigan and has worked for the Bay City Times, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspapers, as well as various radio stations and WDIV-TV in Detroit. Since 1994, he has done a weekly technology report for all 215 NBC-TV affiliate stations across the country.

He was one of the first mainstream journalists to embrace the Internet as a tool in newsgathering and a powerful medium in its own capable of competing with and besting traditional "old media" like newspapers, magazines and broadcast outlets.

In 2000, he wrote "The Wired Journalist," a newsroom guide to the Internet for the Radio and Television News Directors Association. Wendland has been a fellow at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, FL, where he has been a frequent guest faculty member specializing in the Internet and broadcast journalism. Here's his biography from The Detroit Free Press: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/COL11/70206033 Here's his official references from the Poynter Institute, where he as been called a "master of all media.": http://www.poynter.org/search/results_article.asp?txt_searchText=mike%20wendland&txt_searchScope=all Wendland is a well known Bible teacher and a pastor at Woodside Bible Church in Troy, MI. Here's his biography from that site: http://www.woodsidebible.org/mwendland.htm