Berlin in Black and White

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John Freeman

John Freeman has headed the photojournalism program at the University of Florida since joining the faculty in 1991. He previously taught a variety of journalism classes at Wichita State University between 1981 and 1991. Freeman’s research interest focuses on successful photojournalists and has been published in Visual Communication Quarterly and NPPA’s News Photographer magazine. His professional experience includes six years as a staff photographer at The Wichita Eagle in Kansas and college internships at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix and The Palm Beach Post in Florida. He has a master’s degree in communication from Wichita State University and a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Freeman was awarded an American Society of Newspaper Editors fellowship for six weeks of work at The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, during summer 2002. He previously updated his newsroom and photographic skills by shooting assignments as a staff photographer at The Los Angeles Times in 1995 and was awarded a fellowship for eight weeks of study at National Geographic magazine in 1996. Freeman is active in the National Press Photographers Association, where he was named NPPA Educator of the Year in 2001. He is a two-time winner of the College of Journalism’s Teacher of the Year award, and he was named College of Journalism International Educator of the Year in 2007. During Freeman’s tenure, the photojournalism program has won two national championships and seven second places in the Hearst Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition. He is active nationally in the AEJMC Viscom Division and teaches during UF’s Summer Media Institute for high school students. Since summer 2005, Freeman has conducted a two-week study-abroad journalism course in Berlin, where he lived as a high school student. The 2012 course website was awarded a first-place “Best of the Web” prize by the VisCom Division of the national journalism educators association (AEJMC). E-mail: [email protected]