Biography
<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <p align="justify">Kim Newton - Currently teaches Multimedia and Visual Journalism in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona in Tucson.</p> <p align="justify"><br /> Newton has twenty-eight years experience in photojournalism, beginning as a freelance photojournalist based in Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, South Korea covering Asian news, business and feature stories for the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Forbes</em>, <em>Business Week</em>, <em>People</em>, <em>Time</em>, <em>U.S. News & World Report</em> and <em>Le Figaro</em> to name a few. Notable assignments include: documentation of China's Muslim Uighur minority in the remote western province of Xinjiang, political and social unrest leading up to and including South Korea's first free elections, culminating in Seoul's hosting of the 1988 Olympics, ceremonies and cultural reaction surrounding the death of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. <br /> <br /> From Asia, he joined Reuters News Pictures in London as picture editor for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. At Reuters he was responsible for editing the region's news coverage that included the release of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first all race elections, Russia's democracy movement, the assassination of Israeli Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Britain's handover of Hong Kong to China, the death and funeral of Britain's Princess of Wales and wars in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia.<br /> <br /> Newton then joined the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service in Washington, D.C. as senior photo editor for international news. While at Knight Ridder Newton oversaw the September 11 terrorist attacks, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo, conflicts in the Middle East, Indonesia and Russia. In addition, Newton coordinated a number of award winning projects that included the "Health Gap," a series on minority health care issues and "A Taste of Slavery," a project that documented slavery in the Ivory Coast's cocoa industry.</p> <p align="justify">In 2003, Newton returned to school as a member of the Visual Journalism Faculty at Brooks Institute of Photography in California, where he received a Master of Science degree in Professional Photography. His thesis, "Does Documentary Photography Still Matter," is available upon request.</p></font></span><br>
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