Instructor

B.A., Western Kentucky University

Steven King, former editor and director of video at The Washington Post, joined the faculty in July 2011 to teach multimedia courses.

At The Washington Post, King led a team of video journalists and video editors, creating multimedia stories while creating new business models to make the medium profitable for the news organization. Prior to that, King served as editor of innovations and special projects at washingtonpost.com where he pioneered new forms of storytelling and generated millions of dollars in new revenue.

In 2008, King was a coach for Carolina journalism students producing the multimedia website Andaman Rising which documented the lives and culture of people living in Phang-nga, a seaside province in Thailand hit hard by the 2004 Asian tsunami. The website won awards in competitions that included AEJMC Best of the Web,Horizon Interactive Awards, NPPA monthly multimedia competitions, Society for News Design Best of Multimedia Design and the Online Journalism Awards, among others. King also coached students for Reframing Mexico, a website that documents life and culture in Mexico City beyond the headlines of drug trafficking and gang violence.

He has been an overseas correspondent for the International Mission Board and a multimedia producer and picture editor at MSNBC Interactive.

King's video team was awarded eight regional Emmys this past year. He has won awards in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism competition for video, best use of multimedia and multimedia/photo editing; Pictures of the Year competition for best use of multimedia; and an Eclipse Award for Media from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association for his multimedia coverage of the 2007 Kentucky Derby.

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