Dale Willman

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Dale Willman, born in 1956 in Jamestown, New York, is an American journalist and NPR newscaster. He has spent more than 20 years at NPR as a news anchor, reporter, producer and editor, and he has also worked for CBS and CNN, anchoring for WCBS in New York and WTOP in Washington, DC. He began his broadcasting career in Ohio and moved to Washington, DC in 1986 to work on NPR’s Morning Edition. In 1991 he produced NPR newscasts from London during the Gulf War, the only NPR broadcasts to originate from outside the United States. Willman has won major awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN Radio and a Peabody Award for a Lost and Found Sound feature. He studied Alfred Russel Wallace as a Fulbright fellow in 2010–2011, spending ten months in Indonesia researching his work. He co-founded Saratoga Wire, an online newspaper in Saratoga Springs, and has taught journalism at Skidmore College. From 2017–2020 he led a climate resilience fellowship at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, after training journalists at the Earth Institute. In 2016 he returned from South Sudan, where he worked as Lead Trainer and Civic Education Advisor for Internews and helped journalists at Radio Mayardit in Turalei. He lives in upstate New York and remains active in journalism training abroad, including in Zambia and Malawi.