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Bill Kuykendall

Bill Kuykendall

Faculty Bio at the SOJ
Faculty Bio at the University of Maine

Status: Visiting Shott Chair of Journalism
Major: English
Role: Workshop Coordinator

Kuykendall is currently on sabbatical from the University of Maine, where he serves as Senior Lecturer in New Media and Cooperating Professor of Communication and Journalism. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Libra Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of New Media at the University of Maine.

Before joining the University of Maine, Kuykendall was chair of the photojournalism sequence at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he taught photojournalism and newspaper management courses, directed the annual Pictures of the Year contest and co-directed the Missouri Photo Workshop.

Kuykendall has served as photo director of the Seattle Times, freelance photographer, consultant, magazine editor and print and multimedia designer. He is a recipient of the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year award and Robin F. Garland Teacher of the Year awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Gold Quill award from the International Association of Business Communicators.



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