Kevin Moloney, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Design and Development
Dr. Kevin Moloney is a transmedia scholar who consults with public and private news organizations on transmedia story design and has taught transmedia storytelling since 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in Technology, Media and Society from the interdisciplinary ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado, and an M.A. in Emergent Digital Practices from the University of Denver.
For 20 years he was a regular contributor to the New York Times covering the Rocky Mountain region. His images appeared on the Times front page 50 times, and on section fronts hundreds more. He has photographed more than 960 stories for the U.S. newspaper of record. Moloney’s work has also appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, Life, Time, Stern, The Chicago Tribune, The Independent, USA Today, Elle, Marie Claire, Business Week, the Christian Science Monitor, and National Geographic publications. He was one of two journalists selected as inaugural recipients of the Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship.
For 21 years Moloney was a lecturer of photojournalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2008 his students secured for him the Robin F. Garland Education award, given by the National Press Photographers Association in honor of achievement in photojournalism education. His students are winners of World Press, POYi, Best of Photojournalism, Hearst and CPOY competitions. They have been listed on PDN magazine’s 30 Emerging Photographers lists, and winners of Alicia Patterson, Getty, Inge Morath and Aftermath Project grants. Moloney also has extensive international journalism training experience having taught photojournalism workshops in Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands, Myanmar and most recently in Venezuela.
Highlights
- 2008 Robin F. Garland Education award winner for achievements in photojournalism education
- Work has appeared in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, National Geographic, USA Today and Marie Claire
Research Interest
- Transmedia journalism
- Photojournalism, photography
Publications
- Moloney, K. T. (2018). Designing Transmedia Journalism Projects. In R. R. Gambarato & G. C. Alzamora (Eds.), Exploring Transmedia Journalism in the Digital Age. IGI Global.
- Moloney, K. (2017). Multi-Platform Storytelling in Journalism. Webinar presented at the DigitalEd @ Mediashift, Online.
- Moloney, K. (2017). Transmedia Storytelling in Journalism. Webinar presented at the DigitalEd @ Mediashift, Online.
- Clendenin, L., Stuckey, D., Culpepper, M., & Moloney, K. (2016). Transmedia journalism expands storytelling for deeper impact.
- Moloney, K., Clendenin, L., Stuckey, D., & Culpepper, M. (2016). Transmedia Journalism. Professional Organization Conference presented at the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Washington, D.C.
- Moloney, K. (2015). Future of Story: Transmedia Journalism and National Geographic’s Future of Food Project (dissertation). University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
- Moloney, K. (2015). The Human Landscape: Documenting a sense of place through people, politics, culture and environment. Workshop, public lecture and solo exhibition presented at the Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografia, Caracas, Venezuela.
- Moloney, K. (2013). Transmedia Journalism as a Post-Digital Narrative. Presented at the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, Grand Valley State University.
- Moloney, K. (2018). Transmedia Photography. In Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies. New York, N.Y.: Routledge.
- Moloney, K. (2016). What’s the secret of this photograph? The Guardian.
- Moloney, K. (2015). Photography is Dead. Long Live Photography! Invited talk presented at the ATLAS Speaker Series, University of Colorado Boulder.
- Moloney, K., & Unger, M. (2014). Transmedia Storytelling in Science Communication: One Subject , Multiple Media, Unlimited Stories. In J. L. Drake, Y. Y. Kontar, & G. S. Rife (Eds.), New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement (Vol. 38, pp. 109–120). New York, N.Y: Springer International Publishing.
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