By Eleanor Boswell-Raine,
Globe Associate Publisher

After six months of writing her weekly column, “Stirring the Pot,” Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig has been named as city editor of the Globe. Fitzhugh-Craig brings with her a broad spectrum of journalistic experience. Her keen interest in activities and issues affecting Bay Area ethnic communities makes her the right fit for the paper.
   Fitzhugh-Craig began her journalism career in 1998 with The Arizona Republic. She served as editor-in-chief for the AZ Examiner, Arizona’s Black Pages and Shades Magazine, an online publication that she created that celebrates and promotes all women of color.
    Since moving to the Bay Area in 2005, Fitzhugh-Craig has worked at the Tri-Valley Herald as a reporter; the San Mateo County Times as an assistant city editor; and most recently as city editor for the Oakland Tribune. Since June 2008 she has written for and edited several local and national publications.
   “I’m extremely excited about my new role with the Globe,” said Fitzhugh-Craig, whose column will continue to be published each week. “It not only will allow me to utilize my skills and knowledge at the community level but will permit me to better carry out the mission both Vernon (Whitmore) and Eleanor (Boswell-Raine) created for our newspaper.”
    Fitzhugh-Craig received her associate’s degree in journalism from Glendale Community College in Glendale, Ariz., and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in business. She is currently vice president of print for the Bay Area Black Journalists Association and an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
    Fitzhugh-Craig is co-author of Living in the Moment: A Guide to Living a Full and Spiritual Life and was a contributor to Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul and Making Shadow Boxes & Shrines.
    Her awards and recognitions include first place for investigative reporting for her work with the Chauncey Bailey Project; an Associated Press Managing Editors Award for column writing; a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship; a Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship; and participation in the Maynard Institute Media Academy at Harvard University and NABJ/New York Times Leadership Academy.