Faculty
Russell S. Chun
Assistant Professor of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations
Degrees
MA, 1994, Johns Hopkins Univ Sch Med; BS, 1991, University Michigan
Bio
Russell Chun teaches design, multimedia, and data journalism.
He has more than 20 years experience in visual communication as a multimedia designer for the sciences and as a consultant to the news industry. Previously at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism, he established and led their curriculum in data journalism. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and was the Department Head of the Illustration program at Sessions College for Professional Design. He sat on the 2015 inaugural Data Advisory Group at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York to help build their data science curriculum.
He is the published author of over a dozen technical books and video products on multimedia software from Adobe, including their official training manuals.
At News21, a Carnegie/Knight-funded national initiative to improve the quality of journalism education in the United States, he trained journalists in interactive storytelling. As an independent developer, he's provided instructional design, art direction, storyboarding, and multimedia to organizations such as AsiaSociety, DNAInfo.com, NYTimes.com, QuantaMagazine.org, Pearson Education, and others. His writings have appeared in MacWorld, SBS Digital Design, Salon.com, Poynter, and PBS MediaShift, and in the peer-reviewed journals Visual Communication Quarterly and the Journal of Visual Literacy. He is the 2019 recipient of the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication.
Teaching Interests
Multimedia storytelling, data visualization, design, and interactivity
Research Interests
Data visualization and information design
Recent Courses Taught
| Course | Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| JRNL 001 | MEDIA ETHICS | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 010 | DIGITAL STORYTELLING TOOLS | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 055 | DESIGN AND VISUAL STRATEGIES | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 056 | DESKTOP PUBLISHING | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 080 | DIGITAL & MOBILE JOURNALISM | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 083 | DATA JOURNALISM | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 170 | INTERNSHIPS | Undergraduate |
| JRNL 299 | CAPSTONE PROJECT | Graduate |
