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  • Seth Gitner
  • Multimedia Editor, The Roanoke Times
  • The 59th Missouri Photo Workshop | Chillicothe, Mo.
  • Seth Gitner has been interested in multimedia journalism since 1998 when he first learned about pairing recorded audio with still photographs. Before working as multimedia editor, he was a staff photojournalist for The Roanoke Times.

    Seth graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1995 with a degree in photojournalism. He then spent 3 years as a photographer in Ocean City, Md. and then 2 years as a staff photographer at the Carroll County Times in Westminster, Md.

    He has taught multimedia at the Poynter Institute's Visual Edge Workshop and the North Carolina Photojournalism Workshop. Seth is past president of the Virginia News Photographers Association. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Press Photographer's Association