Seth Gitner - S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University

Seth Gitner teaches multimedia storytelling at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Gitner has a dual appointment in both the newspaper and online journalism and the multimedia photography and design departments.

He is the former head of the visual communication division for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and a former secretary of the national board of the National Press Photographers Association where he is currently the co-director of the NPPA Multimedia Immersion Workshop held each May at Syracuse University. He has received NPPA’s Joseph Costa Award, NPPA’s President’s Award and NPPA’s Robin F. Garland Educator Award, and has also been awarded two-life memberships for his volunteer work with the association.

Gitner is currently under contract to write the second edition of “Multimedia Storytelling of Digital Communicators in a Multiplatform World,” a textbook he published in fall 2015 with Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The first edition is currently being used in the COM117 classes at Newhouse.