What a legacy newspaper journalist has learned, and had to unlearn, while diving headfirst into virtual reality, and why many of his most valuable collaborators are not journalists.
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R.B. Brenner is a professor and the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas.
He arrived at UT-Austin in August 2014 four years earlier after leaving The Washington Post. At The Post, his roles included Metro Editor, Sunday Editor and Deputy Universal News Editor. He was one of the primary editors of the newspaper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and played a leadership role in merging the digital and print newsrooms. His journalism career also included reporting and editing jobs at newspapers in California, Florida and North Carolina.
At UT-Austin, he leads a team of journalism, film, computer science and engineering students working on virtual reality projects in partnership with The Washington Post. In addition, the team received a grant from the Knight Foundation Prototype Fund to develop an open-source VR publishing framework for journalists who lack the engineering skills to publish their own immersive stories.
