Daleen Berry

Daleen Berry is an award-winning author, editor, investigative journalist and public speaker. Berry has reported and edited many newspapers including The Charleston Gazette, The Bridgeport News, The Clarksburg Exponent, The Dominion Post, The Tracy Press, The Preston County Journal/News, and The Kingsville Record. She was also a stringer for The Associated Press. In 1990 Berry received first-place for investigative journalism from the West Virginia Press Association. In 2006 her memoir took first place in the "Appalachian Theme" category of the West Virginia Writers' Competition. In 2005, she won second place in the M.M. Neely Persuasive Speaking Competition, at Fairmont State University, for her speech regarding child sexual abuse and its link to domestic violence.