Marion Callahan, Delaware Valley University, Pennsylvania
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Marion Callahan is a career journalist, visual storyteller, and assistant professor of media at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She teaches news reporting, social media, public relations, video production and podcasting. She is passionate about exploring innovations in community news coverage through social media and other multimedia platforms. Marion launched her career in print journalism at the Miami Herald and went on to work at The Charlotte Observer, The Morning Call, European Stars & Stripes, and USA Today Network news organizations in Pennsylvania. While she has covered conflicts across the globe, she spent much of her career diving into local news issues, reporting on the opioid epidemic, housing shortages and other major news topics in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In academia, she works to grow collaborations on campus and in the community and continues to build more opportunities for her students’ innovative storytelling.
Bio
Marion Callahan is a career journalist, visual storyteller, and assistant professor of media at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She teaches news reporting, social media, public relations, video production and podcasting. She is passionate about exploring innovations in community news coverage through social media and other multimedia platforms. Marion launched her career in print journalism at the Miami Herald and went on to work at The Charlotte Observer, The Morning Call, European Stars & Stripes, and USA Today Network news organizations in Pennsylvania. While she has covered conflicts across the globe, she spent much of her career diving into local news issues, reporting on the opioid epidemic, housing shortages and other major news topics in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In academia, she works to grow collaborations on campus and in the community and continues to build more opportunities for her students’ innovative storytelling.