Associate Professor Maryanne Reed will serve as acting dean of West Virginia University’s Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism for one year, Provost Gerald Lang announced today.
Reed will take over for Dean Christine Martin, who will become the WVU Vice President for Institutional Advancement April 1.
Maryanne brings a lot of energy and excitement to her work, and I believe that will benefit the School of Journalism as they continue to develop ways to make the school reach out to constituents beyond the campus,Dr. Lang said.I also think she’s a good fit to work with Dean Martin in this year of serving as acting dean.
Reed currently chairs the Broadcast News Program and teaches Broadcast News Writing, TV Reporting and Newscast Production. She created the school’s highly successful partnership with KDKA -TV News in Pittsburgh, in which students serve as off-air reporters for KDKA , shooting news and covering stories in the Morgantown area.
“I have complete confidence in Professor Reed’s ability to lead the school,”Martin said.”Her success over the past 10 years has helped guide the success of the School.”
Before coming to WVU , Reed worked in television news as a reporter, producer and anchor. She has worked in TV markets in Elmira, N.Y., Rochester, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa.
Reed currently produces TV documentaries and features for public and commercial television. Her award-winning documentary”Righteous Remnant: Jewish Survival in Appalachia,”originally aired on West Virginia Public Television in 1997 and was distributed nationally by PBS . Her feature on children and mountaintop mining aired on”Nick News”in 1999 on the Nickelodeon Cable Channel.
Reed recently directed students in the production of an 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.
She is currently working on a documentary about women correspondents who covered the Vietnam War.
Reed earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern University.