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Dunne worked for newspapers in [[Alabama]], [[Florida]], and New Orleans, as well as ''The Alexandria Town Talk'' in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana. He was a second assistant city editor on the former ''Baton Rouge State-Times.'' He moved to general reporting and the copy desk at ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'' in the early 1980s. He became an investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge but in 1993 returned to ''The Advocate.'' He taught journalism as an adjunct professor in the Douglas Manship School of Mass Communications at LSU.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=90472803|title=Michael Patrick Dunne|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 10, 2007|accessdate=May 23, 2015}}</ref>​

Dunne worked for newspapers in [[Alabama]], [[Florida]], and New Orleans, as well as ''The Alexandria Town Talk'' in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana. He was a second assistant city editor on the former ''Baton Rouge State-Times.'' He moved to general reporting and the copy desk at ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'' in the early 1980s. He became an investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge but in 1993 returned to ''The Advocate.'' He taught journalism as an adjunct professor in the Douglas Manship School of Mass Communications at LSU.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=90472803|title=Michael Patrick Dunne|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 10, 2007|accessdate=May 23, 2015}}</ref>​

Dunne won journalism awards for general assignment reporting and coverage of the police, courts, education, city hall, and the environment. In the late 1980s, Dunne and ''The Advocate'' reporter Bob Anderson received national honors three times in a year for stories on coastal erosion]and a series on air pollution. Dunne was a two-time winner of the Scripps-Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award, named for a prominent [[Tennessee]] journalist. In the spring of 2007, with his health in decline, Dunne received the first "America's Wetland Conservationist of the Year" award for stories on threats to the Louisiana [[Gulf Coast]].<ref name=bio/>​

Dunne won journalism awards for general assignment reporting and coverage of the police, courts, education, city hall, and the environment. In the late 1980s, Dunne and ''The Advocate'' reporter Bob Anderson received national honors three times in a year for stories on coastal erosion]and a series on air pollution. Dunne was a two-time winner of the Scripps-Howard Foundation's [[Edward J. Meeman]] Award, named for a prominent [[Tennessee]] journalist. In the spring of 2007, with his health in decline, Dunne received the first "America's Wetland Conservationist of the Year" award for stories on threats to the Louisiana [[Gulf Coast]].<ref name=bio/>​

A founding member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Dunne was co-author of the book ''America's Wetland: Louisiana's Vanishing Coast'' with [[photographer]] Bevil Knapp.  R. King Milling, the chairman of America's Wetland Foundation, said that Dunne had a "no-nonsense approach to reporting on the issue of coastal land loss."<ref name=bio/>​

A founding member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Dunne was co-author of the book ''America's Wetland: Louisiana's Vanishing Coast'' with [[photographer]] Bevil Knapp.  R. King Milling, the chairman of America's Wetland Foundation, said that Dunne had a "no-nonsense approach to reporting on the issue of coastal land loss."<ref name=bio/>​