- Associate Professor
- Professor of Practice
Biography
Biography
Lisa Waananen Jones is a journalist and designer who’s taught Murrow College visual communication and journalism courses since 2014. She organizes the annual Rural Reporting Plunge and participates in other experiential learning opportunities and research related to rural and civic journalism. She frequently works with undergraduate students for independent studies and Honors Thesis projects related to photojournalism, documentary video, web design, and investigative and data reporting. She worked at The New York Times before returning to Washington state, and played a key data reporting role from 2020-23 in the Times’s coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, which was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She started her journalism career as a WSU undergraduate at The Daily Evergreen, and has also worked in local news for regional publications including The Spokesman-Review, The Inlander and InvestigateWest.
Education
- B.A. Washington State University, 2008
- M.S. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2010
Classes Taught
- COM 320 – Visual Communication
- COMJOUR 390 – Video for the Web
- COMJOUR 280 – Introduction to Photojournalism
- COMJOUR 333 – Interviewing and Reporting for Modern Media