Michael Haddigan came to UCA after 20 years as an award-winning reporter and editor and 10 years in nonprofit communications.
In his journalism career, Mr. Haddigan reported for the Associated Press in Bangkok and Pittsburgh; The Washington Post; the Boston Globe; the Baltimore Sun; the Dallas Morning News; The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C.; the Arkansas Gazette, and the Arkansas Times.
Other reports appeared on ABCNews.com and Salon.com and in the Columbia Journalism Review and Nieman Reports at Harvard University.
An essay on Arkansas landscape changes was included in “A Rough Sort of Beauty,” an anthology of Arkansas environmental writing, University of Arkansas Press, Fall 2002.
He also served as Director of Research and Communications at Heifer International where he managed the quarterly World Ark magazine and led a team of 10 writers, graphic artists and others in planning and producing collateral for Heifer's communications, education and fundraising efforts.
Mr. Haddigan has reported from Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Canada, and the United Nations.
Mr. Haddigan has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Oregon.
He studied Advanced Thai at Chiang Mai University in Thailand and is fluent in the Thai language.
Other Activities
Covered Thai national elections Aug.-Sept. 1992
Covered closing of the last Killing Fields-era Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand, May 1993.
Covered peacekeeping efforts and U.N.-sponsored Cambodian national elections, May 1993.
Conducted oral history interviews for the University of Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History project on the Arkansas Gazette, 2000-2007.
Conducted research in Ecuador for an elementary school curriculum on the ecology of the Andean high grasslands for Heifer International, Feb., 2003.
Conducted research in Guatemala for Heifer International’s planned “Heifer Village” learning center, Feb., 2004.
Edited “One World, One Family,” a photo book about Heifer’s global work to end poverty and hunger, led the Heifer International team awarded the American Advertising Federation's first International Gold Addy for the book in May 2004.
Led the team that planned and installed a Heifer International photo exhibit at U.N. Headquarters in New York, Oct. 2004.
Led Heifer International Study Tour to northern Thailand and northern Laos to study sustainable development projects and old-growth tropical forests, Nov. - Dec. 2004.
Surveyed Heifer International sustainable development projects with former Khmer Rouge guerrilla families in northwestern Cambodia for articles in Heifer International’s World Ark magazine, Feb. 2005.
Reported from Indonesia’s Banda Aceh province on Heifer International projects one year after the 2004 tsunami, for articles in Heifer International’s World Ark magazine and for heifer.org, Dec. 2005.
Blogged for hungermovement.org from World Food Prize Conferences, Des Moines, IA, 2005, 2006, 2009.
Member of Heifer International delegation to the 16th Session of The U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development in New York, advocating for women in agriculture and other small farmers.
Prepared advocacy presentation materials and blogged for hungermovement.org, May 5-16, 2008.
Conducted oral history interviews with President Bill Clinton’s Arkansas gubernatorial staff members for the Arkansas Studies Institute and the Presidential Studies program, Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia, Jan. 15, 2012.
Taught Composition courses in University of Central Arkansas Writing Department, 2012-2014.
Awards and Honors
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, News Reporting Award, 2002
Society of Professional Journalists, Minority Affairs Reporting Award, 2000
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Distinguished Service Award, 1998
Associated Press Managing Editors Special Projects Award, 1988
Arkansas Press Association In-Depth Reporting Award, 1988
Southwestern Journalism Congress, Best Feature Story, 1982
Walter J. Lemke Scholarship, 1982-1983
Southwestern Journalism Congress, Best Investigative Story, 1981
Scripps-Howard Scholarship, 1981-1982
Arkansas Gazette Scholarship, 1980-1981
Memberships
Online News Association
Society of Professional Journalists
Association for Education in Journalism and Education
Phi Beta Kappa
Kappa Tau Alpha
In his journalism career, Mr. Haddigan reported for the Associated Press in Bangkok and Pittsburgh; The Washington Post; the Boston Globe; the Baltimore Sun; the Dallas Morning News; The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C.; the Arkansas Gazette, and the Arkansas Times.
Other reports appeared on ABCNews.com and Salon.com and in the Columbia Journalism Review and Nieman Reports at Harvard University.
An essay on Arkansas landscape changes was included in “A Rough Sort of Beauty,” an anthology of Arkansas environmental writing, University of Arkansas Press, Fall 2002.
He also served as Director of Research and Communications at Heifer International where he managed the quarterly World Ark magazine and led a team of 10 writers, graphic artists and others in planning and producing collateral for Heifer's communications, education and fundraising efforts.
Mr. Haddigan has reported from Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Canada, and the United Nations.
Mr. Haddigan has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Oregon.
He studied Advanced Thai at Chiang Mai University in Thailand and is fluent in the Thai language.
Other Activities
Covered Thai national elections Aug.-Sept. 1992
Covered closing of the last Killing Fields-era Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand, May 1993.
Covered peacekeeping efforts and U.N.-sponsored Cambodian national elections, May 1993.
Conducted oral history interviews for the University of Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History project on the Arkansas Gazette, 2000-2007.
Conducted research in Ecuador for an elementary school curriculum on the ecology of the Andean high grasslands for Heifer International, Feb., 2003.
Conducted research in Guatemala for Heifer International’s planned “Heifer Village” learning center, Feb., 2004.
Edited “One World, One Family,” a photo book about Heifer’s global work to end poverty and hunger, led the Heifer International team awarded the American Advertising Federation's first International Gold Addy for the book in May 2004.
Led the team that planned and installed a Heifer International photo exhibit at U.N. Headquarters in New York, Oct. 2004.
Led Heifer International Study Tour to northern Thailand and northern Laos to study sustainable development projects and old-growth tropical forests, Nov. - Dec. 2004.
Surveyed Heifer International sustainable development projects with former Khmer Rouge guerrilla families in northwestern Cambodia for articles in Heifer International’s World Ark magazine, Feb. 2005.
Reported from Indonesia’s Banda Aceh province on Heifer International projects one year after the 2004 tsunami, for articles in Heifer International’s World Ark magazine and for heifer.org, Dec. 2005.
Blogged for hungermovement.org from World Food Prize Conferences, Des Moines, IA, 2005, 2006, 2009.
Member of Heifer International delegation to the 16th Session of The U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development in New York, advocating for women in agriculture and other small farmers.
Prepared advocacy presentation materials and blogged for hungermovement.org, May 5-16, 2008.
Conducted oral history interviews with President Bill Clinton’s Arkansas gubernatorial staff members for the Arkansas Studies Institute and the Presidential Studies program, Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia, Jan. 15, 2012.
Taught Composition courses in University of Central Arkansas Writing Department, 2012-2014.
Awards and Honors
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, News Reporting Award, 2002
Society of Professional Journalists, Minority Affairs Reporting Award, 2000
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Distinguished Service Award, 1998
Associated Press Managing Editors Special Projects Award, 1988
Arkansas Press Association In-Depth Reporting Award, 1988
Southwestern Journalism Congress, Best Feature Story, 1982
Walter J. Lemke Scholarship, 1982-1983
Southwestern Journalism Congress, Best Investigative Story, 1981
Scripps-Howard Scholarship, 1981-1982
Arkansas Gazette Scholarship, 1980-1981
Memberships
Online News Association
Society of Professional Journalists
Association for Education in Journalism and Education
Phi Beta Kappa
Kappa Tau Alpha