Wally Dean is co-director of training for the Committee of Concerned Journalists, which over the past 7 years has trained nearly ten-thousand journalists from 150 print, broadcast and on-line news organizations in the U-S and abroad.
Dean is co-author of "We Interrupt this Newscast," published in April 2007 by Cambridge University Press. The book, which examines 34,000 stories on 2,400 newscasts in 50 markets, is the most extensive analysis of local TV news content ever undertaken. Dean was senior associate at the Project for Excellence for Journalism and a member of the PEJ team awarded the 2004 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism Research and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.
Dean consults the Associated Press Broadcast in Washington and has been a regular presenter at AP Managing Editor NewsTrain conferences. He has trained at several Univision Spanish-language stations, been a consultant to NewsLab, and been published in the RTNDA Communicator and the Columbia Journalism Review. He often briefs foreign journalists participating in U.S. State Department programs and has conducted workshops in The Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and Kazakhstan as well as one and two-week Washington seminars for journalists from Portugal and Norway.
Dean was previously associate director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism following a thirty-year career in broadcast journalism that included 14 years as a producer and news assignment manager at the Washington Bureau of CBS News and as a reporter, anchor, executive producer and associate news director at one of the country's most successful local news stations.