Visiting Professor of Visual Journalism

Position description

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is seeking a leading photo or video journalist to serve as the Howard G. Buffett Foundation Visiting Professor of Visual Journalism.

The Buffett Visiting Professor will join the award-winning and highly collaborative Cronkite School faculty and will teach, edit and mentor upper-level undergraduate and graduate journalism students producing enterprise visual storytelling in the Southwest and across the country.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, visiting faculty appointment on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix Campus. Dates of employment are January 1, 2025, through Aug, 16, 2025.

Duties and responsibilities:

●        Teaching an on-campus advanced skills course(s) for undergraduate and/or graduate students in producing photo and video enterprise projects. The specific teaching assignment will be determined based on the Visiting Professor’s experience, in consultation with the Cronkite School dean. (Spring 2025 semester)

●        Serving as a guest photo editor and coach in  Cronkite News, the student-powered, faculty-led news division of Arizona PBS. This involves meeting with photo and/or video students in the newsroom, editing their work and helping them develop stories. (Spring 2025 semester)

●        Mentoring student reporting fellows and editing visual storytelling content produced by student reporting fellows in the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, which draws top students from more than a dozen universities each year to produce one national enterprise reporting project. This is a highly energized newsroom environment at the Cronkite School, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Summer 2025 semester)

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