Wise is the senior multimedia producer for the Las Vegas Sun. He oversees the implementation of multimedia in terms of workflow, presentation and technology. He also is a multimedia storyteller who shoots and produces stories in multiple formats ranging from video to panoramas.
Before coming to the Sun, Wise was a visiting professor in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University teaching multimedia development and production. While teaching at Ohio University, he was the executive producer on the award winning Soul of Athens multimedia project and taught the classes that produced it. Soul of Athens has gone on to win: first place in Best Multimedia Package for NPPA Best of Photography 2008; second place in Best Use of Multimedia (Small) for Pictures of the Year International (POYi): The Society of New Design awarded Soul of Athens as a top 15 site; Information Technology Alliance of Appalachian Ohio (ITAAO) named the site the Best non-commercial Website.
Wise holds a master s degree in photojournalism from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and won several CPOY awards for his multimedia photojournalism projects there. In 2005, he won the Gold 2005 Horizon Interactive Award for Spit It, Quit It. In 2006 he was awarded Yahoo! site of the day (May 2006) for Losing Louisiana: Land Loss on the Coast, which was also a featured site on BBC Science and won the Talking Hands Award. Zach also runs the digitalartwork site.
Both Wise and Hernandez will team up to deliver a presentation on the relationship between newspapers and multimedia production.
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