Kenneth Irby

kenneth_irby

Name: Kenneth F. Irby
Title: Visual Journalism Group Leader and Director of Diversity, Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Employer: Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a school for journalists, aspiring journalists and journalism teachers, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Experience: Founded Poynter’s photojournalism program after leaving Newsday in 1995. As a photo editor at the New York paper, Irby contributed to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. He chaired the 2007 photography awards for the Pulitzer. Irby also served as photo manager at two USA Olympic Games.
Education: Boston University School of Public Communication, Bachelor of Science in Photojournalism, May 1983.
Web site: www.Poynter.org
E-mail: irbyman [at] poynter [dot] org.

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