Steve Johnson

Gainesville, Florida United States

Visual Coordinator and Adjunct Lecturer

Education

Steve Johnson is a multimedia journalist and adjunct lecturer at the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. Specializing in backpack journalism, Johnson has worked some of the largest stories in the past decade including the 2012 London Olympics, the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a multitude of NCAA national championships. After receiving his bachelor of science in journalism from UF, he joined the staff at the College to develop his skills as a multimedia storyteller and lecturer. His classes (both at the undergraduate and master’s level) focus on the various levels of impact visual journalism has on readers using different platforms to consume n