Walter Dean

Wally Dean is a 35-year broadcast news veteran who is a senior associate at the Project for Excellence in Journalism, director of broadcast training for the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and a consultant to NewsLab.

He was a staff producer and news assignment manager at the Washington Bureau of CBS News for 14 years. Prior to that, he was a reporter, anchor, executive producer and associate news director at WOWT-TV in Omaha, where he worked for 15 years. After leaving CBS News in 1998, he served two years as associate director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism where he produced "A Journalist's Toolbox," a series of training videos now being used in more than 2,000 newsrooms and classrooms across the country.

More recently, he created the broadcast version of CCJ's Traveling Curriculum and, as part of a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Knight Foundation, is coordinating its teaching in broadcast newsrooms. His work has been published in the RTNDA Communicator and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Wally is a graduate of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where he was a member of the Innocents Society, the senior men's honorary. He has taught broadcast news writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Creighton University and is a past president of the Omaha Press Club.