Maryanne Reed

Dean, Professor
Maryanne.Reed@mail.wvu.edu
304-293-3505 x5409

Professor Maryanne Reed has been a member of the WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism faculty since 1993. Before being named Dean in 2004, she chaired the broadcast news program and taught courses in broadcast news writing, television reporting and producing, documentary production and journalism history. She created the School’s highly successful partnership with KDKA-TV News in Pittsburgh, Pa., in which students serve as off-air reporters for KDKA, shooting news and covering stories for the top-30-market television station.

Reed has a background as a local news reporter, producer and anchor. She has worked in television markets in Elmira, N.Y., Rochester, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa.

Reed produces television documentaries and news features for public and commercial television. Her award-winning documentary, “Righteous Remnant: Jewish Survival in Appalachia,” originally aired on West Virginia Public Television and was distributed nationally by PBS. Her feature on children and mountaintop mining aired on “Nick News” on the Nickelodeon Cable Channel.

Reed directed students in the production of an Emmy award-winning documentary profiling five cancer patients, “Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss and Hope.” The documentary aired on West Virginia Public Television in December 2003 and has been distributed nationally by the National Education Television Association.

Reed is currently doing research about the history and impact of community radio. Her article, “Allegheny Mountain Radio and Localism in Appalachia,” was published in the Journal of Radio Studies. She is director of the Monroe County Radio Project, which was funded by a New Voices grant from J-Lab in 2006. For the project, WVU journalism students and faculty helped residents of Monroe County, W.Va., create regular news programming for the community radio station, WHFI-FM.

Reed holds a B.A. in history from University of Massachusetts and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University.