Gina Martino Dahlia

Associate Dean of Student Success and Enrollment / Teaching Professor of Journalism

304-376-1281 gina.dahlia@mail.wvu.edu

Gina Martino Dahlia is the Associate Dean of Student Success and Enrollment for the WVU College of Creative Arts and Media. In this role, Dahlia leads our ‘Student Services Success Team’ which consists of professional advisors, recruiters and a career specialist. Previously, she served as the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Reed College of Media. Prior to this position, Dahlia was the Journalism Program Chair at the College of Media. Dahlia is also a Teaching Professor at the Reed School of Media and Communications.

Dahlia has worked in higher education for 20+ years. She has taught thousands of students at WVU in all areas of journalism including television news producing, sports reporting, the history of mass communications, broadcast writing and reporting and journalism law and ethics. Dahlia is also the proud recipient of the WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching, the highest award for teaching at West Virginia University.

Dahlia has served as the executive producer of "WVU News", a student-produced weekly newscast. This newscast has received more than 150 National, International and Regional juried awards since 2013. This includes several regional and national Emmy awards and nominations.

Dahlia's journalism career spans 30+ years where she has held many roles in the field. First as a TV news anchor and reporter at a CBS affiliate and later as a weekly newspaper columnist, feature and business writer and restaurant critic. She’s an award-winning documentarian, for her documentary "The Monongah Heroine." Dahlia was also a researcher for a national PBS documentary, "The Mosque in Morgantown," which explored the larger dilemmas facing American Islam. In 2001, Dahlia was the Press Secretary for the campaign of current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin when he ran and won the office of West Virginia Secretary of State. She’s also a proud former West Virginia Women’s Commissioner.

Dahlia received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from West Virginia University, with a Master’s Degree in Journalism from the Reed College of Media with a minor in Political Science.