NNew media is now old. The time to converge online interactivity with journalism is now. Digital journalist Heather Faison has embraced this challenge. A passionate writer with a background in graphic design, Heather has long waited for these worlds to collide.
The Howard University graduate has been involved in all levels of journalism, from management as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington, D.C. community tabloid The District Chronicles to staff writer for the first HBCU daily newspaper, The Hilltop, to leading the design efforts of the campus paper.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 2007, Heather, a native of the Raleigh, North Carolina, received the Ford Foundation Black Press Fellowship.
Heather worked as a copy editor, layout designer, and entertainment contributor at The Philadelphia Tribune, 2008 NNPA newspaper of the year.
Fall 2009, she was awarded the Kiplinger Digital Media Fellowship, a residential fellowship for mid-career journalists based at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. She produced a four-part multimedia project on childhood obesity and the lack of healthy food access in North Philadelphia, PA. The project is slated to run on Philly.com summer 2010.
Heather also trained non-profit leaders, CEOs, educators and communicators on social media, online branding and corporate strategies at the program’s Digital Media KipCamps. She completed a range of art video courses and produced projects using Final Cut Pro, Motion graphics and DVD Studio Pro.
Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, the graphic artist has also designed eye-catching layouts for the Tribune Magazine and other clients. Heather is also skilled in basic HTML and CSS.
Refer to the Resume tab for a full list of her credentials.
