Daleen Berry is an award-winning author, editor, investigative journalist and public speaker. She has been a journalist since 1979, when she began reporting while still in high school. Berry was selected as her high school’s correspondent, and assigned to write for two local newspapers she later went to work for, The Preston County Journal and The Dominion Post. In that time, she has written more than 1,800 articles, many of which dealt with domestic violence and child sexual abuse. She won two second-place awards in the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association 2007 competition. Berry’s colu... View More »
Daleen Berry is an award-winning author, editor, investigative journalist and public speaker. She has been a journalist since 1979, when she began reporting while still in high school. Berry was selected as her high school’s correspondent, and assigned to write for two local newspapers she later went to work for, The Preston County Journal and The Dominion Post. In that time, she has written more than 1,800 articles, many of which dealt with domestic violence and child sexual abuse. She won two second-place awards in the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association 2007 competition. Berry’s column, "Many factors involved when mothers kill" won in the Local Column: Critical Thinking category, while another column, "Ashes to ashes, urns to trunks, Dad in limbo,” won in the Feature or Humor category. In June 2006, her memoir took first-place in the Appalachian Theme division at the West Virginia Writers’ Conference. In May 2005, she won second place in Fairmont State University’s M.M. Neely Persuasive Speaking Competition, for her speech regarding child sexual abuse and its link to domestic violence. While serving as editor of Fairmont State University’s student-run newspaper in 2004, Berry led her staff to a record number of awards in the Society of Collegiate Journalists’ annual competition. In 1990, the West Virginia Press Association presented her with a first-place award in investigative journalism, for her series about rural health care. Berry has reported and edited many newspapers during her long career, including The Charleston Gazette, The Dominion Post, Cumberland Times-News, The Tracy Press, The Preston County Journal, The Record Delta, and The Kingsville Record. She was also a stringer for The Associated Press. In 1991, Berry was editor-in-chief of publications she wrote and published for the West Virginia Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and the West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police. «View Less
Daleen Berry is an award-winning author, editor, investigative journalist and public speaker. She has been a journalist since 1979, when she began reporting while still in high school. Berry was selected as her high school’s correspondent, and assigned to write for two local newspapers she later went to work for, The Preston County Journal and The Dominion Post. In that time, she has written more than 1,800 articles, many of which dealt with domestic violence and child sexual abuse. She won two second-place awards in the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association 2007 competition. Berry’s column, "Many factors involved when mothers kill" won in the Local Column: Critical Thinking category, while another column, "Ashes to ashes, urns to trunks, Dad in limbo,” won in the Feature or Humor category. In June 2006, her memoir took first-place in the Appalachian Theme division at the West Virginia Writers’ Conference. In May 2005, she won second place in Fairmont State University’s M.M. Neely Persuasive Speaking Competition, for her speech regarding child sexual abuse and its link to domestic violence. While serving as editor of Fairmont State University’s student-run newspaper in 2004, Berry led her staff to a record number of awards in the Society of Collegiate Journalists’ annual competition. In 1990, the West Virginia Press Association presented her with a first-place award in investigative journalism, for her series about rural health care. Berry has reported and edited many newspapers during her long career, including The Charleston Gazette, The Dominion Post, Cumberland Times-News, The Tracy Press, The Preston County Journal, The Record Delta, and The Kingsville Record. She was also a stringer for The Associated Press. In 1991, Berry was editor-in-chief of publications she wrote and published for the West Virginia Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and the West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police. «View Less