PEOPLE: KIM NEWTON

Kim Newton
Office - Marshall 327
Telephone - (520) 621-5711
E-mail - newtonk@email.arizona.edu

Kim Newton has 26 years' experience in photojournalism, beginning as a freelance photojournalist based in Tokyo and Seoul covering Asian news, business and feature stories for The New York Times, Forbes, Business Week, People, Time, U.S. News & World Report and Le Figaro, among others. He most recently taught photojournalism and ethics in the visual journalism department at Brooks Institute of Photography in California.

From Asia, Newton 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.

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 coverage of 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.

Newton earned a B.A. in 1981 from the UA and an M.S. in photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography. He will teach the intro and advanced photojournalism courses and serve as visual adviser to the capstone publications.