WVU :: Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism

BONNIE STEWART

Assistant Professor
Stewart@mail.wvu.edu
304-293-3505, ext. 5417

Bonnie Stewart comes to WVU from a California newsroom, where she wrote enterprise stories on everything from pet overpopulation and corporate environmental pollution to Mexican puppy smugglers, nursing shortages and museum thefts.

Stewart has been nationally and regionally recognized for her reporting. In 2001, she and a colleague earned a George Polk Award for metropolitan reporting and the National Society of Professional Journalists Award for public service for a series of stories called Destined to Die. The award-winning series uncovered the plight of unwanted dogs and cats in Indianapolis, the mismanagement of the city’s animal shelter and financial irregularities at the local humane society. As a result of the series, the animal care policies changed significantly, the city hired new shelter managers and the humane society fired its executive director.

Stewart has served as an enterprise reporter for The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif.; a projects reporter for The Indianapolis Star; an editorial writer and columnist for The Indianapolis News; and a copy editor for The Business Journal, Serving Greater Sacramento.

During a 10-year stint as the writing coach for the national Pulliam Journalism Fellowships in Indiana, she coached 100 fellows during their summer newspaper internships. She also taught composition courses and was a co-instructor for an editorial and column writing class at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Stewart recently directed WVU students and faculty in the reporting of a converged media project called “Starting Over: Loss and Renewal in Katrina’s Aftermath.” The work, which includes print stories, video and photos with audio, is on the Web at http://katrinaproject.journalism.wvu.edu. The site has won recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, taking first place in the regional competition and placing among the top three finalists nationally for online, in-depth news reporting.

She also is the faculty advisor for the WVU student chapter of SPJ.

Stewart earned her master’s in English from California State University in Sacramento and her bachelor’s from Marian College in Indianapolis.

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	BONNIE STEWART Assistant Professor Stewart@mail.wvu.edu 304-293-3505, ext. 5417 Bonnie Stewart comes to WVU from a California newsroom, where she wrote enterprise stories on everything from pet overpopulation and corporate environmental pollution to Mexican puppy smugglers, nursing shortages and museum thefts. Stewart has been nationally and regionally recognized for her reporting. In 2001, she and a colleague earned a George Polk Award for metropolitan reporting and the National Society of Professional Journalists Award for public service for a series of stories called Destined to Die. The award-winning series uncovered the plight of unwanted dogs and cats in Indianapolis, the mismanagement of the city’s animal shelter and financial irregularities at the local humane society. As a result of the series, the animal care policies changed significantly, the city hired new shelter managers and the humane society fired its executive director. Stewart has served as an enterprise reporter for The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif.; a projects reporter for The Indianapolis Star; an editorial writer and columnist for The Indianapolis News; and a copy editor for The Business Journal, Serving Greater Sacramento. During a 10-year stint as the writing coach for the national Pulliam Journalism Fellowships in Indiana, she coached 100 fellows during their summer newspaper internships. She also taught composition courses and was a co-instructor for an editorial and column writing class at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Stewart recently directed WVU students and faculty in the reporting of a converged media project called “Starting Over: Loss and Renewal in Katrina’s Aftermath.” The work, which includes print stories, video and photos with audio, is on the Web at http://katrinaproject.journalism.wvu.edu. The site has won recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, taking first place in the regional competition and placing among the top three finalists nationally for online, in-depth news reporting. She also is the faculty advisor for the WVU student chapter of SPJ. Stewart earned her master’s in English from California State University in Sacramento and her bachelor’s from Marian College in Indianapolis.