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CHRISTINE M. MARTIN

WVU Vice President Institutional Advancement and
former WVUP.I.ReedSchool of Journalism Dean
Chris.Martin@mail.wvu.edu
304-293-3857

Christine M. Martin is the Vice President for Institutional Advancement for West Virginia University. She is the former dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University (WVU) and is Co-Director of the News Reporting & Writing Fellowship program at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Martin was the 1999 Freedom Forum Journalism Professor of the Year, the 1998 CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachers, West Virginia Professor of the Year, the winner of the 1997-98 West Virginia University Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Prior to becoming Dean, Martin worked at WVU for 10 years as a print journalism professor and the Director of the Writing Program. Before that she worked as a reporter, education writer and news editor for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard. During her years as a reporter, Martin won the National Education Writers Association Award for investigative journalism and an American Cancer Society Award for health reporting.

Martin speaks nationally on writing and reporting, and offers workshops to newspaper groups across the region. She has taught and spoken at the Poynter Institute, Columbia University, the New York Press Association and the National Writers Workshop.

Martin is the recipient of two 1997-98 Freedom Forum Journalism Professors Publishing Grants - one to complete the publication of a collection of biographies and oral histories of 16 women correspondents who covered the Vietnam War, and the other to co-produce a documentary film on the same subject. Martin holds a BA in English from California University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Journalism from the University of Maryland and is currently completing a Ph.D. there in American Studies.

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	CHRISTINE M. MARTIN WVU Vice President Institutional Advancement and former WVUP.I.ReedSchool of Journalism Dean Chris.Martin@mail.wvu.edu 304-293-3857 Christine M. Martin is the Vice President for Institutional Advancement for West Virginia University. She is the former dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University (WVU) and is Co-Director of the News Reporting & Writing Fellowship program at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Martin was the 1999 Freedom Forum Journalism Professor of the Year, the 1998 CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachers, West Virginia Professor of the Year, the winner of the 1997-98 West Virginia University Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching. Prior to becoming Dean, Martin worked at WVU for 10 years as a print journalism professor and the Director of the Writing Program. Before that she worked as a reporter, education writer and news editor for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard. During her years as a reporter, Martin won the National Education Writers Association Award for investigative journalism and an American Cancer Society Award for health reporting. Martin speaks nationally on writing and reporting, and offers workshops to newspaper groups across the region. She has taught and spoken at the Poynter Institute, Columbia University, the New York Press Association and the National Writers Workshop. Martin is the recipient of two 1997-98 Freedom Forum Journalism Professors Publishing Grants - one to complete the publication of a collection of biographies and oral histories of 16 women correspondents who covered the Vietnam War, and the other to co-produce a documentary film on the same subject. Martin holds a BA in English from California University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Journalism from the University of Maryland and is currently completing a Ph.D. there in American Studies.