Dawn Fallik

Dawn Fallik

Freelance Writer / Journalism Professor / Investigative Medical Reporter
Academia Journalism

Dawn Fallik

is an award-winning reporter specializing in database analysis, medical coverage and digital storytelling. She is an associate professor at the University of Delaware who worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Associated Press.  She was co-director of the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting.

She spent 15 years as a staff reporter 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.

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Associate Professor, University of Delaware

Fallik was director of UD’s journalism program for nine years between 2009 and 2022, at one point overseeing 250 students and coordinating with three other full-time faculty members.  She created the journalism internship program in 2007, developing endowed fellowships with The News Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer, before stepping down in 2022. Her students covered the Pope’s visit to Philadelphia, as well as White House credentials to cover  speeches by Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. President Donald Trump denied the request for credentials.

She was a visiting professor at the University of Kansas from 2013-2015 She served on the Ochberg Society Board of Directors, teaching journalists how to cover traumatic situations.

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Recent Stories

Fallik's work has appeared in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, Neurology Today, Poynter Institute and others.
Finding BugMan Vernard Richard Lewis, then a professor of entomology at the University of California at Berkeley, conducts a termite inspection under a house in Stockton, Calif. in 2008. (Robin Tabuchi)

Finding BugMan

Four-year-old Rebecca Varney loved bugs. Dr. Vernon Lewis helped inspire that love into a career.
Climate change is altering the smell of snow Climate change is altering the smell of snow

Climate change is altering the smell of snow

Its scent is getting stronger as both the atmosphere and the land get warmer, researchers say
Their cats took their Vitamix hostage. Three weeks later, the standoff continues.

Their cats took their Vitamix hostage. Three weeks later, the standoff continues.

Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves have tried everything to get their three cats to leave that Vitamix box alone.