Will Sullivan (also known as "Journerdism"[1]) is a leading tech and journalism blogger[2], award-winning[3] multimedia journalist[4] and an educator.
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Sullivan was born in Toledo, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo where he worked on The Independent Collegian student newspaper [5]. He also attended[6] Northwestern University for his Masters degree in New Media at the Medill School of Journalism and The Poynter Institute for a Visual Journalism Fellowship.
In 2010, he was awarded a fellowship[7] with the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri where he studied mobile and tablet news development[8]. Also in 2010, he was elected the youngest ever member of the Online News Association board of directors[9].
He co-founded and co-lead the National Press Photographers Association's Multimedia Immersion[10] workshop over the past 5 years, which has trained hundreds of photojournalists multimedia storytelling skills, including Pulitzer Prize winners, and award-winning photographers from The Los Angeles Times' Carolyn Cole to Pete Souza, President Barack Obama's chief photographer and former Chicago Tribune staff photographer.
Sullivan was also a judge for the Society for News Design's 2011 "Best of News Design" competition[11] and he is co-chair of the 2011 SND conference, taking place in St. Louis on Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2011[12].