Christine M. Martin
The former dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at WVU, Chris Martin was appointed vice president for University Advancement and Marketing in 2004.
Martin began teaching at WVU in 1990 after an eight-year career as a journalist. Prior to joining the WVU faculty, she worked as a reporter, education writer, and news editor for regional newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Greensburg Tribune-Review and the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard. She won the National Education Writers Association Award for investigative journalism and an American Cancer Society Award for health reporting.
As a professor in the WVU School of Journalism, she co-directed the Poynter Institute's Summer Newswriting and Reporting Fellowships, from 1997 to 2005. She was named 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, and winner of the 1997-98 WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching.
She speaks nationally on writing and reporting, and offers workshops to newspaper groups across the region. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the California University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, where she is currently completing a Ph.D. in American studies.
