Washington Post video editor Steven King to join UNC journalism faculty

Steven King, editor and director of video at The Washington Post, will join the faculty at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media on July 1 to teach multimedia courses.

At The Washington Post, King has led a team of video journalists and video editors since July 2010, creating multimedia stories while creating new revenue 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.
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 the soon-to-launch 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 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.
King will earn a master’s degree from the University of Liverpool in Information Technology in July. He earned a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from Western Kentucky University in 2004.