‘NewsHour’ Names Kennedy ME Of Digital News

Visual journalist and multimedia editor Tom Kennedy has been tapped to lead the PBS NewsHour‘s online news operations as managing editor/digital news.

Kennedy brings over 35 years of print and online journalism experience, including positions as managing editor for multimedia at WashingtonPost.com and director of photography at the National Geographic Society. He has created, directed, and edited visual journalism projects that have earned Pulitzer Prizes, as well as Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow awards.

He also worked as deputy graphics director at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he directed two projects that earned Pulitzer Prizes for feature photography. Earlier in his career, he worked as a photojournalist at the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun and the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel Star.

Kennedy now teaches photo editing, including multimedia editing and storytelling, and visual journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He also works as a multimedia consultant with assorted corporations and nonprofits. He will begin work at the NewsHour in June.

Kennedy has served on the board of advisors for The Knight Center for International Journalism within the School of Communication at the University of Miami, and on the board of visitors for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has also been an adviser to visual journalism programs at the University of North Texas and University of Florida.

Kennedy graduated cum laude with a degree in journalism from the University of Florida.