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Full Name
Sung Park
First Name
Sung
Last Name
Park
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Professor of Practice
Phone
541-346-8458
Office
326 Allen Hall
City
Eugene
Departments
SOJC
SOJC-Journalism
SOJC-Journalism Master's
SOJC-Multimedia Journalism
Teaching Level
Masters
Undergraduate
Profile Section
Biography

Sung Park is a Professor of Practice in photojournalism and multimedia journalism. Prof. Park has taught multimedia storytelling to master’s students at the University of Ghana as a Fulbright Scholar and has taught seminars and workshops for media organizations in West Africa. Before joining the SOJC, he taught photojournalism and multimedia at Syracuse University and The University of Texas.

Park has over 25 years of staff and freelance experience doing journalistic and nonprofit work. He was an award-winning staff photographer, picture editor and multimedia producer at the Austin American-Statesman and is currently an active freelance visual journalist. He has been a coach and instructor for the National Press Photographer’s Association Multimedia Immersion Workshop and is a founding co-director of Story-Arc Cinematic Journalism Workshop. He holds two degrees from Syracuse University: a B.S. in Illustration Photography from The Newhouse School and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual and Performing Arts.

Education
  • MFA, Transmedia, Art Photography, Syracuse University, 2010
  • BS, Photoillustration, PhotojournalismSyracuse University, 1991
Areas of Expertise
  • Photojournalism
  • Multimedia journalism
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Member for

6 years 2 months