DeWayne Wickham (Sp)

DeWayne Wickham is the founding dean of the School of Global Journalism & Communication. Prior to coming to Morgan State University, he was interim chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at North Carolina A&T State University (2010 – 2012) and served as a distinguished professor of journalism at Delaware State University (2000 – 2005) and a visiting distinguished professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2008). His journalism career began in summer 1973 as a copyediting intern with the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. Over the next 42 years, he worked for the Baltimore Sun, U.S. News & World Report, Black Enterprise magazine, CBS News, BET News and USA TODAY, where he wrote a nationally-syndicated opinion column for 30 years. He is the author of three books – “Woodholme, A Black Man’s Story of Growing Up Alone”; “Bill Clinton and Black America,” and “Fire At Will”; and the editor of “Thinking Black: Some of the Nation’s Best Black Columnists Speak their Mind.” He is a founding member and former president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and, in 2016, was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame. Wickham is also the 2012 recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists highest honor, the Fellow of the Society award, for extraordinary contribution to the profession.