Email: jcarl@mediavia.com

J. Carl Ganter is managing editor of MediaVia. Carl is a photojournalist, writer, broadcast reporter and project coordinator. His work has appeared in most major magazines (including National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Paris Match, Stern, De Tijd), international newspapers and on CBS, NBC, ABC and NPR.

His positions on large-scale global projects have ranged from audio director, on-air reporter, international logistics coordinator and assignment editor. He is a founder of MediaVia, a company specializing in journalistic story telling. Besides project management and coordination positions, he has photographed for the "Day in the Life" book projects. He has been a contributing photographer to the international photo agency Contact Press Images since 1982; much of his travel archives are represented by Corbis. He has taught at the National Press Photographer's Association Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, the Mountain Workshops, and the University of North Carolina School of Journalism. He is a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute and a staff member of the Visual Edge workshops.

Carl holds a master's degree in magazine writing and investigative journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and graduated with honors in American Studies from Northwestern. He has been involved in a range of large-scale investigative journalism projects, including the Dowaliby murder case, where his master's project and a handful of journalists helped free David Dowaliby, a man wrongly convicted of murder. The project catalyzed the anti-death-penalty momentum in Illinois. Carl served as a consultant to the WMAQ-TV investigative unit in Chicago and remains a contributing correspondent for NBC5. He has won numerous awards for photography, publishing and radio broadcasting. He and his wife, Eileen, were awarded the Ben East Prize by the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, honoring them as "conservation journalists of the year." He currently serves on the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars "Navigating Peace" Water Working Group, which studies and produces policy papers on global water policies.

Carl enjoys the outdoors in all weather and is an avid skier and hiker. One of his goals is to stay one pun ahead of his wife, Eileen. He has traveled on assignment throughout South East Asia, Central and South America, Africa and Europe.

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