Dawn Fallik
Academia

Academia

“Beginning reporting with Professor Fallik is like pledging a fraternity.  It’s a semester of hell, but then you’re set for life.”

– Student evaluation, University of Delaware

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My journalism classes at the University of Delaware mix real-world practice with creative exercises.  Students must write on deadline, in AP style and to word length – just like any newsroom.  They cover meetings, pitch features and decipher press releases to find the news.

I also want them to think about stories and sources beyond the basic writing and editing process.   They interview the families of murder victims to hear about what it’s like on the other side of the pen.  Medical writers dissect cadavers to understand the complexity of the body.  They visit a garden in winter and sit outside blindfolded so they can write a campus scene without the visuals.

In advanced classes, students take video and produce podcasts to accompany their written stories.

Here are links to various class pages.

1. Beginning journalism (307) 

2. Advanced journalism (308) 

3. Medical Writing (aimed at science majors)

4. Critical Writing 

5. Social Media 

Beginning students create written and video profiles.  The link to the channel is here.

1. The Engineer    2. Glass Blower   3. The Producer

Other:

Nieman Fellowship: In summer 2011, I developed “Professor’s Corner,”  an online site offering readings, lesson plans and tipsheets for journalism professors.

 Dart Fellowship: In June 2010, I received a Dart Fellowship at Columbia University. It was the first academic Dart conference.  We worked on introducing trauma coverage to journalism classes.

Salzburg Fellowship: I won a fellowship to the Salzburg Global Seminar, a conference on the changing role of photography in journalism.  February 2013,

Here is my academic CV.