Seth M. Gitner has been Multimedia Editor for The Roanoke Times / roanoke.com in Roanoke, Va. since January 2005. Before entering the online news side of print journalism Seth was a still photojournalist for 10 years. Seth’s new role is to help integrate multimedia news gathering techniques into a traditional print newsroom. Seth has taught multimedia storytelling at the Poynter Institute’s Visual Edge
Workshop, The North Carolina Photojournalism Workshop , and the Truth with a Camera workshop. He is a past president of the Virginia NewsPhotographer’s Association and currently serves on the board of directors of the National Press Photographer’s Association as Chapter Board Representative where he also chair’s the newly established
multimedia committee for the NPPA.
Since his move to the online side of The Roanoke Times’ fully integrated newsroom. He along with the roanoke.com digital media team have earned numerous accolades including the 2005 ‘Best Internet Site under 1 million users’ award by Editor and Publisher magazine, the 2006 NAA Most Innovative Storytelling Award, The 2005 Scripps Howard Award for Web Reporting, the 2005 APME Online Convergence Award, and the 2006 General Excellence Award from the Online News Association.
Both his multimedia and photography have been recognized by the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism contest.
