Tara Pixley
Director, Master of Journalism Program
Assistant Professor, Journalism
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Tara Pixley is a Director and Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University. As a visual journalist, her images have been published by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, ESPN, Allure, The Atlantic, ProPublica, People, Apple, Vogue, Wired, Adobe, and many more. She has worked as a photo editor for the New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, and The 19th. Though she photographs a multitude of subjects, her long form visual journalism projects reframe media representations of borders/immigration, gender, race, sexuality, and environmental justice through a solutions lens.
As an educator, she has created and led award-winning college news media while teaching critical media production to emerging journalists and photographers at R1 universities, art schools, community colleges, and liberal arts colleges.
Her photography, films, research and writing have been awarded by: Pulitzer Center; Reynolds Journalism Institute; World Press Photo; Knight Foundation; Folio Awards; Nieman Foundation at Harvard University; LA Center of Photography; and the Southern California Journalism Awards, among many others.
Combining her two decades of visual media production experience with a Ph.D. in Communication, she specializes in helping organizations (non-profits, corporations, newsrooms and film/TV productions) understand their social impact and strategize effective engagement/communication with diverse audiences. She also offers organizational strategic planning and project management as well as workshops + trainings on visual storytelling, visual ethics, organizational equity practices and team dynamics, and strategic public/audience communication practices.
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