- Department:
- High School Journalism Institute
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
- Hometown:
- Liberty Township, OH
Dean Hume has been teaching high school or college-level journalism classes and advising publications for 36 years. A former reporter and columnist for various daily and weekly papers across the state, Hume currently teaches journalism at Lakota East High School (OH), where he is in his 25th year of advising the Spark, the award-winning news magazine that routinely features a staff of more than 125 students. Spark is a consistent CSPA Gold Crown, Quill and Scroll Gallup, NSPA Pacemaker winner as well as a two-time SPJ student publication of the year. A Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser, Hume serves as an adjunct professor of Journalism in the School of Informatics at Northern Kentucky University. He has earned the TAJE Trailblazer Award and was named a 2002 President Scholar Educator by the U.S. Department of Education.