Dawn Fallik is an award-winning reporter specializing in database analysis, medical coverage and digital storytelling. She is director of journalism for the University of Delaware.

She spent 15 years as a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She witnessed an execution, investigated medication errors and spent a month in India covering the tsunami rescue and recovery.

Reporting: Fallik left full-time reporting in 2007. She now freelances medical stories for The Wall Street Journal and Neurology Today.  Dawn Fallik resume.

Multimedia: Fallik worked on the multimedia desks at the Wall Street Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her latest project is a series on the New Jersey and Delaware shores.

Academia: In addition to coordinating the journalism internship program at UD, Fallik teaches beginning and advanced reporting, medical writing, social media sourcing and critical writing. In 2012 she joined the board of directors for the DART Society, which works with journalists who cover trauma and violence.

Blogging: Despite her years of investigative reporting on subjects that matter, Fallik has a pop culture problem. After correctly identifying a Project Runway designer’s dress on a Wall Street Journal editor, they hired her to blog a variety of programs including Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries and Project Runway. She interviewed Tim Gunn, reviewed U2 and forced herself to taste many samples at the Specialty Food Show in New York City.