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Edward R. Murrow College of Communication

Wendy Raney

  1. Assistant Professor
  2. Professor of Practice
Email Addresswendy.raney@wsu.edu
LocationMurrow Hall 207

Biography

Biography

Wendy Raney is a scholarly assistant professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. Raney teaches Reporting Across Platforms (COMJOUR 333) and Writing in Communication (COM 300), and is the lead instructor for this foundational writing course. She has created two courses for Murrow College, Sports Journalism (COMJOUR 487) and Strategic Sports Writing (COM 388).

She prioritizes experiential learning in her classes and strives to get students outside the classroom into real-world situations so they can apply what they are learning in the classroom and get feedback. She presented her experiential learning projects at the National Communication Association’s annual convention in 2021, 2022 and 2024 and serves as the association’s Experiential Learning Division vice chair in 2024. She developed Murrow’s MLB Spring Training program and takes students behind-the-scenes at spring training to produce feature news stories.

Raney encourages her students to take charge of their education, ask questions and take advantage of opportunities.

Raney graduated from Vassar college with a bachelor’s degree in history and earned her masters in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her professional experience includes reporting and editing for a daily newspaper, serving as a public information officer in Montana state government and editing “We Proceeded On,” a scholarly journal of western expansion history.

Raney was born and raised in Montana, where she met her husband. Together they have three school-aged children.

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