Judy Walgren

MSU J-School Associate Director and Professor of Practice Judy Walgren is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, photo editor, executive producer, curator and visual artist. She has worked on staffs at the Dallas Morning News, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post as a photojournalist and photo editor. She also served as the Director of Photography for the and at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she led a team of Emmy-winning photojournalists and filmmakers. In 2016, she received an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and began her exploration into the relationships between photography, historic archives and power structures. She joined the faculty at Michigan State in 2018.

• The influence of historic visual archives on the maintenance of stereotypes.
• The use and performance of authentic versus fabricated visual content in marketing.
• Non-fiction immersive storytelling and audience engagement.
• Ethical and moral considerations when creating and publishing immersive media.
• Creating powerful visual narratives informed by qualitative and quantitative research and data.