Major Profiles & Interviews
Deseret News
November 2011
Values-based filmmaker Micheal Flaherty takes the road less traveled
The most comprehensive profile of Micheal Flaherty published anywhere — a full-length feature covering the founding of Walden Media, the Charlotte's Web world record, the Steppingstone Foundation years, and the argument for why great stories and great business are not in conflict. Includes photographs from Salt Lake City meetings with the Deseret News editorial board.
Read →Ethix Magazine
December 2007
Walden Media: Movies That Matter
Extended interview covering Bridge to Terabithia ("took a real chance for us"), Amazing Grace, the founding mission, and Micheal's wife as schoolteacher-turned-breadwinner while he wrote the Walden Media business plan.
Read →Ethics & Public Policy Center
April 2011
Faith Angle Forum — Full Transcript
The single most detailed primary source document available on Micheal Flaherty — an extended Q&A with Washington journalists including Paul Farhi of the Washington Post. Covers the William F. Buckley connection, the origin of the "Micheal" spelling, the full education film strategy, Desmond Doss, global Christianity, and the argument for Les Misérables as the most successfully Christian Broadway musical.
Read full transcript →Boston Globe
September 2013
Walden Media — The Boston Globe Profile
The Globe's home-city profile of one of Boston's most unusual entertainment companies — run from Boston, not Hollywood, by a former educator who once taught in the city's most underserved school clusters.
Read →SPU Response Magazine
Autumn 2010
Walden Media Founder Wants to Turn Moviegoers into Readers
On the occasion of a Seattle Pacific University campus visit with footage from Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Waiting for Superman. Includes Micheal's argument that "grace" is "the last great incorruptible word" in the English language.
Read →The Washington Institute
2007
The Good Story, the Good Society: The Vision of Micheal Flaherty
Steven Garber's extended essay-profile, written after sharing a private screening of Because of Winn-Dixie at Fox Studios. "Bright-as-a-button and yet remarkably playful too, and in and through it all, a true Irish wit." Reprints the Hillsdale address in full.
Read →Publishers Weekly
February 2009
Walden Media Moves Into the Future
The trade paper's account of Walden's publishing expansion — Walden Pond Press joint venture with HarperCollins, the Mike Lupica partnership, and the next phase of the books-to-films strategy.
Read →For Media
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