001-E Reynolds Journalism Institute
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone: 573-884-2001
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JIM MACMILLAN joined the convergence journalism emphasis area at the Missouri School of Journalism in August 2009. Previously, MacMillan was the senior photographer, a photo columnist and the first solo video journalist at the Philadelphia Daily News, where he worked for 17 years and earned distinguished visual journalist honors from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association for his work on the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. He was a photographer and photo editor with the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo staff in Iraq and was individually honored with the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents. MacMillan was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. He has led photojournalism workshops at Tufts University and taught journalism courses at Temple University. For his recent experiments in social media, MacMillan was named one of the "Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet" by Photo District News and Philadelphia Magazine's 2009 Best of Philly "Nuevo Journalist."