Dale Willman

Who is Dale Willman?

Dale Willman is an award-winning American journalist and was a 2010-2011 Fulbright Program grantee. He is the co-publisher and managing editor of Sratoga Wire, a full-service on-line newspaper serving Saratoga Springs, New York. He also trains journalists, primarily overseas, on how to report on environmental issues; he podcasts for Slate.Com; and he is an adjunct professor at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He worked for NPR for more than 10 years, as a news anchor, reporter, producer and editor. He has also worked for CBS and CNN, and has anchored news for WCBS in New York and WTOP-FM in Washington, D.C.

The focus of his Fulbright was noted British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and Wallace's work in what is now Indonesia and Malaysia. Willman spent 10 months in Indonesia teaching journalism and researching Wallace, the most prominent naturalist of the 19th century. Wallace is considered the father of the scientific discipline now known as Biogeography. Willman is producing a series on Wallace's life, to be broadcast on the public radio program, The World.