Ferrell Wellman is an award-winning broadcast journalist who brings the greatest amount of real-world experience of any BEM faculty member to his position at EKU. He was a reporter for 18 years at WAVE-TV, Louisville. During that time he was named “ Kentucky’s Outstanding Broadcast Journalist” and won numerous state and national awards for his coverage of state and national events and issues. He was the news director for WVLK-AM/FM, Lexington, Ky. and worked as a news reporter for WNOR-AM/FM in Norfolk, Va. He was a member of a documentary reporting team at WHAS-AM, Louisville, which won national Scripps-Howard and Headliner awards for an investigation of issues in Appalachia.

Wellman is still active in broadcast journalism in Kentucky. He has a 30-year relationship with Kentucky Educational Television and has appeared as a host or guest on more than 600 productions. He has served as the political analyst for WLEX-TV in Lexington since 2000. In addition, he won an Edward R. Murrow Award from RTNDA (Radio Television News Directors Association) for 2006 for his anchor work on WLAP-AM's coverage of the crash of Comair flight 5191. The regional award was for best spot news reporting in five southeastern states.

He was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2006. He was only the fifth TV reporter or videographer (non-anchor) to be inducted and the only TV reporter who did his own videography to be inducted since the Hall opened in 1981.

Wellman joined the Department of Communication in 1994.