About your instructors
An Englishman who has lived most of his life as an American, Steve has for the past 12 years taught design and graphics courses at Indiana University. Before this, he worked for almost two decades in newspaper graphics departments, including 16 years at the Chicago Tribune, where he was Graphics Editor and later Senior Artist.
Steve has won numerous awards for his graphics and design work, which he keeps in a drawer somewhere, and in 2001 he was a small part of a large project on airline gridlock that was awarded that year’s Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism.
During his time at the Tribune, Steve took part in three major redesigns and witnessed firsthand and on a day-by-day basis the accelerating pace of change that continues to transform the world’s media companies.
He is a graduate of the University of Florida.
Danny Gutierrez is an IU Media School graduate and a second-year graduate student seeking a Master’s of Science in Media Management. He studied Media Advertising and Marketing during his undergraduate career. In his free time, Danny enjoys exercising, playing guitar and spending time with friends.
Gillian Paxton is a first-year master’s student in Journalism from Carmel, Indiana. She graduated from the Media School with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 2021 and received her teaching license in 2022 after student-teaching yearbook and newspaper classes at North Central High School in Indianapolis. She hopes to focus her research on media literacy education. In her free time, she likes to knit, play video games, and listen to music.