Will Sullivan

Will Sullivan

2010-2011

  • Reynolds Fellow
    Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
  • Sullivan has won more than a dozen awards for his innovative interactive work from organizations including the Online News Association, Editor & Publisher EPpy Awards, Pictures of the Year International and Society for News Design and National Press Photographer Association.
  • Sullivan is co-founder and co-director of the National Press Photographer Association Multimedia Immersion workshop, which has taught almost 200 professional photographers how to thrive in the multimedia environment. He's also taught and lead workshops around the country for organizations including South by Southwest Interactive, The Poynter Institute, APME, and guest taught at more than a dozen universities and consulted for several major journalism corporations.
  • Sullivan's news and technology blog Journerdism.com was selected as one of Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab as one of the 10 Best "Future of Journalism" blogs, he's one of the New York Times picks for the best Twitter users for interactive journalism and one of the top 15 minds on Mashable.com's journalism Twitter list.
Project: Mobile Technology for Newsrooms

Future Opportunities: Developing strategies for news organizations to use mobile technology to report deeper, faster and more accurately for and with their audiences.

"Key questions to answer:

  • What hardware and software tools are available and necessary for this new multi-layered, interactive form of journalism?
  • How can journalists use these tools to better, faster and more accurately report and interact with their audiences?
  • Where and when are users most interested in different forms of media content?
  • What technology can help efficiently and quickly curate information on these platforms?
  • What business models can be created around this type of journalism? How would one start an organization now from scratch optimized for using these techniques and technologies?"

 --Will Sullivan, June, 2010