Veteran Reporter Paula Dobbyn Selected as Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism
The 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø Department of Science and Environmental Journalism is pleased to announce
the selection of Paula Dobbyn as the Snedden Chair for 2024-2027.
Dobbyn is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience in print, broadcast and digital news.
Mostly recently, Dobbyn was part of the Honolulu Civil Beat team nominated as Pulitzer Prize finalists for breaking news coverage of the devastating wildfire that leveled Lahaina, Maui, killing 102 people.
A longtime Alaskan, Dobbyn has reported for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska’s News Source television, and KTOO public radio in Juneau. Prior to Alaska, she worked as a producer, newscaster and reporter in public radio and television in Boston and Washington, D.C. After graduating from college, Dobbyn launched her career as a freelance radio reporter covering war and revolution in Central America.
Besides journalism, Dobbyn has worked in public relations and communications, freelanced as a magazine writer, and served as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
She is a registered yoga teacher and holds a certificate in victims’ rights advocacy.
Education:
LL.M International Human Rights Law, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast
B.A. Political Theory, Hampshire College