Pailin Wedel

I’m a photojournalist at the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. Born and raised in Asia, I came to the United States for college. Upon graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill with a Biology major and a Photojournalism minor, I worked as a photographer on a multimedia website, chiloestories.org, in Chile with other recent graduates and UNC students. The site won numerous awards including “First Place – Online News Association Best Student Online Journalism – 2003-04” and “First Place, Multimedia, Independent, Best of Photojournalism Competition, 2005.” In 2004 I interned with the Charlotte Observer and moved on to freelance in the North Carolina Triangle area. In the summer of 2005 I received the Poynter Recent Graduate Summer Visual Journalism Fellowship. After completing the fellowship I traveled to Ecuador as a video/audio content producer for a multimedia website funded by the Morehead Foundation. I joined the News & Observer photography staff in August of 2005 and continued my multimedia work there. I am one of the contributors to the newspaper’s photo column, “Acts of Faith,” which focuses on striking expressions of various religious faiths in North Carolina. I have done coaching and multimedia training for the Poynter Institute, the News & Observer and Special Olympics International.