Micheline Maynard

Micheline is a contributing columnist at the Washington Post concentrating on business and culture. She has written about flooding in Detroit, tainted water in Benton Harbor, nationwide shortages of restaurant staff, and vaccine hesitancy.

My Latest Articles

Customers forced Keurig to backtrack

Keurig, the coffeemaker with the drop-in plastic cups, is everywhere. But when it redesigned its machines last year, it made a lot of customers angry.

The big dollars in Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is this Sunday (you still have time to buy a card). And, it’s become a big money holiday. According to the National Retail

Would you buy stock in Fitbit?

Fitbit has become ubiquitous among people aiming to get healthy. It makes those wristband and clipon devices that monitor your fitness activity, either through calories

Elon Musk, battery salesman

Would you buy a home battery from Tesla’s Elon Musk? Apparently, you would. On Wednesday, Musk declared that demand for Tesla’s new Powerwall home batteries

Monetizing the Royal Baby

You probably heard the joyful news from London on Saturday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka William and Kate, welcomed a bouncing baby girl.

Dan Gillmor and covering technology

In this episode, co-hosts Micki Maynard and Mark Remillard spend some time talking with long-time technology journalist and journalism professor, Dan Gillmor. They discuss the

Delta snags design deal

One of fashion’s hottest stars, Zac Posen, is taking on a new runway. Posen will design a collection for Delta Air Lines that will debut

Cost of an empty Orioles stadium

The Chicago White Sox will play the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards on Wednesday. Nobody will be there. With riots breaking out across the city,

Millennials and money with Rian Bosse

This week’s How to Cover Money episode discusses reporting on millennials and their financial behavior. Graduate assistant and student of the Walter Cronkite School of

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