MaryAnne Golon

MaryAnne Golon is a professor of practice at the Newhouse School, teaching classes in visual editing following a decade-plus tenure at The Washington Post as director of photography. Golon has been a key member of the senior newsroom management team, overseeing all aspects of photography for the Post across all platforms. She managed 17 staff photojournalists and 25 photography editors, and her team assigned scores of freelance photojournalists worldwide.

Under her leadership, the Post has won a Pulitzer Prize for photography and several other Pulitzers that named the photo staff. Golon was previously Time’s director of photography and co-managed the international news magazine’s photography department for more than 15 years. Golon has received numerous individual and team picture-editing awards from Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism competitions. Communication Arts, Society of News Design, Society of Publication Designers, American Society of News Editors and American Photography have all recognized her work. She was 2013 Picture Editor of the Year at the Lucie Awards, an International Photography Award foundation.

Golon serves as chair of the executive board for the Eddie Adams Workshop; as a faculty member at the Missouri Photo Workshop; as a juror for the International Photojournalism Festival Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan; and as a lecturer and portfolio reviewer for multiple photography organizations around the world. Golon received a B.S. in journalism and communications from the University of Florida, where she is a distinguished alumna. She completed a fellowship in public policy and media studies at Duke University.