John Temple

Associate Dean, Associate Professor, Print Journalism Program Chair
John.Temple@mail.wvu.edu
304-293-3505 x5418

In addition to serving as the Associate Dean of the WVU Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism, Associate Professor John Temple chairs the print journalism program and teaches reporting and writing courses. His specialty area is narrative nonfiction writing.

He is the author of two nonfiction books: The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates, forthcoming in November 2009, and Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office, published in 2005. More information about Temple’s books can be found at www.johntemplebooks.com.

In Fall 2008, Temple founded the “West Virginia Uncovered” project. In the project, students and faculty provide multimedia training and content for small rural newspapers around the state. The McCormick Foundation, the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the Ford Foundation have all supported the project.

Prior to teaching at WVU, Temple taught and studied creative nonfiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned an M.F.A. Temple worked in the newspaper business for six years. He was the health/education reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a general assignment reporter for the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., and a government and politics reporter for the Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Fla.