Kenneth Irby

Visual Journalism Group Leader, The Poynter Institute

RCCongress 2010 Workshop:

RCCongress 2010 Panelist:

Kenneth Irby is Poynter's Visual Journalism Group Leader and Director of Diversity. He is an integral figure in visual journalism education, known for his insightful knowledge of photographic storytelling, innovative management ideas, and steadfast ethical thinking. He founded Poynter's photojournalism program in 1995. He teaches in seminars and consults in areas of photojournalism, leadership, ethics, and diversity.

During his 14-year tenure at Poynter, Kenny has traveled to Nigeria, Amsterdam, Denmark, Canada, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa and Russia preaching excellence in photojournalism. He chaired the 2007 Pulitzer Prize (photography categories), lectured at the World Press Photos buddy training program, the International Center Of Photography, is a member of the Eddie Adams Workshop board, presented on the 2003 Flying Short Course, served as photo manager at two USA Olympic Games ('96 and '02), chaired the Unity '99 Visual Task Force and is Poynter's representative and a founding member of The Best of Photojournalism (BOP) Committee.

Kenny contributed as a photo editor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects while at Newsday. He is a recipient of numerous NPPA awards, including the 2007 Sprague Award (the organization's highest honor), 2002 President's Award, 1999 Joseph Costa Award and others. He has been a juror for the American Society of Newspaper Editor's Community Service Photojournalism Awards, the Society for News Design, Annual Pictures of the Year Competition, White House News Photographers' Competition, and the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards. As a leader and facilitator in the visual journalism arena, he is a frequent lecturer and author on photographic reporting issues, most recently for National Public Radio.

Communications Ethics Today

Converging media and cross-platform publishing require new approaches to photographic coverage and presentation. In this workshop, you'll learn about current convergence efforts, ethical tough calls, editing strategies, and explore ideas for developing ethical guidelines for photographic multi-media presentation.

You'll explore the power of photographic driven multimedia storytelling to convey information quickly and sharpen your ability to handle graphic and traumatic news coverage decisions. You'll also explore current issues of diversity and sense making in this age of "web first" and continuous news cycles.

Media Panel: How Social Change is Changing Media Coverage of Religion

Panelists will discuss how social, religious or media change has affected their work as journalists; how they've adapted reporting to new media models of communication; the role religion plays in today's media landscape; and the social (including religious) changes they anticipate reporting on in the next six months.