
Journalist, educator and consultant at www.jimmacmillan.com
Greater Philadelphia Area

Journalist, educator and consultant at www.jimmacmillan.com
Greater Philadelphia Area
Jim MacMillan is an independent multimedia journalist, university educator and new media consultant based in Philadelphia.
Until recently,MacMillan was the senior photographer, a photo-columnist and solo video journalist with the Philadelphia Daily News, where he had worked since 1991. On leave from the Daily News in 2004-2005, he was a photographer and photo editor for the Associated Press in Iraq, personally covering over 200 combat missions and at times managing the AP's photo reports and staff development in Baghdad. MacMillan won the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, was included in the Associated Press photo team awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography, and is the recipient of numerous additional awards. MacMillan was a 2006-2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a 2007 Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He has taught at photojournalism seminars at Tufts University, his alma mater, and undergraduate courses at Temple University, including a new course in journalism and trauma in 2008.
New media, solo video journalism, photojournalism, journalism and psychological trauma, education and training.
(Online Media industry)
January 1995 — Present (14 years 11 months)
Jim MacMillan is an independent multimedia journalist, a university educator and a new media consultant based in Philadelphia.
Until recently, MacMillan was the senior photographer, a photo-columnist and solo video journalist with the Philadelphia Daily News. On leave from the Daily News in 2004-2005, he was a photographer and photo editor for the Associated Press in Iraq, personally covering over 200 combat missions and at times managing the AP's photo reports and staff development in Baghdad. MacMillan won the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, was included in the Associated Press photo team awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography, and is the recipient of numerous additional awards. MacMillan was a 2006-2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a 2007 Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He has taught at photojournalism seminars at Tufts University, his alma mater, and undergraduate courses at Temple University.
(Newspapers industry)
1991 — 2008 (17 years )
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
May 2004 — April 2005 (1 year )
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)
1988 — 1991 (3 years )
Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma 2007 — 2007
Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events — on crime, family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide — is among the greatest challenges facing contemporary journalism. The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship, now in its ninth year, was established by the Dart Center in order to better prepare journalists for this challenge.
The fellowship is named for the Dart Center Executive Committee's Chairman Emeritus, Frank Ochberg, M.D., a psychiatrist and pioneer in the understanding of violence and trauma.
The week-long Ochberg Fellowship program offers midcareer journalists a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the many dimensions of trauma, and to forge relationships with colleagues who share those interests. Fellows attend several days of seminars, then participate in the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (istss.org).
Knight-Wallace Fellow in journalism 2006 — 2007
The Knight-Wallace Fellows program provides outstanding mid-career professionals the opportunity to indulge in a sabbatical year of study and reflection. The Fellowship is designed to broaden perspectives, nurture intellectual growth, and inspire personal transformation. To this end, Fellows devise a plan of study and select classes from the full range of courses offered at the University of Michigan. Additionally, prominent journalists and leading academics give twice-weekly seminars. With no deadlines, a Knight-Wallace Fellowship frees you to explore the expanse of scholarship at the University of Michigan.
1978 — 1988
Photography 1978 — 1983