- Department:
- High School Journalism Institute
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Steve Layton has taught graphics and design courses at IU SOJ/MSCH since the Fall 2010 semester. Before teaching, he worked for almost 20 years in newspaper graphics departments, 16 of them 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 2004 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, he 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. Professor Layton’s classes in the Media School are skills-based and focused on graphic design, informational graphics and interactive media. Steve is a graduate of the University of Florida.