Happy birthday, Josh Awtry
Let’s take a moment to wish the happiest of VizEds birthdays today to Josh Awtry, Assistant Managing Editor for Presentation at The Salt Lake Tribune. Josh turns 32 today.
A graduate of Hastings College (It’s in South central Nebraska; Yes, I had to look it up), Josh was previously Managing Editor for Presentation at The Independent in Grand Island, Neb. and Design Director for The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
According to his official bio, Josh lives in the ‘burbs of Salt Lake City with his wife, Karenna — an ex-copy editor — daughter, Ally, and son, Andrew.
Andrew was born on Jan. 16 of this year. Read Josh’s baby blog here.
Josh has created a high profile for himself in the news design world as one of our best evangelists for Alternative Story Forms. You’ll find his home page is a great resource for editors and designers craving handouts on how to create more ASF.
Josh has been on the visual storytelling bandwagon for a long time. Even back in 2003 — when he was still in Myrtle Beach — Josh was interviewed by Poynter’s Chip Scanlon on what Scanlon called “nonlinear narratives.”
A few samples of Josh’s work:
See more in his NewsPageDesigner portfolio.
Earlier this year, Josh’s staff provided some pretty impressive coverage of a mining accident. That same week, Josh’s staff also unveiled very nice new high school sports site. Read all about that here.
We all have our hobbies and Josh pursues his in a big way. He loves a role-playing game based on the movie Serenity — which, in turn, was an extension of a short-lived science fiction TV series Firefly. Being the always-organized type, he’s put together about a bajillion tips and resources for other players of the Serenity RPG.
Being a sci-fi geek myself, I really dig what Josh has done with his hobby site. Check it out.
Josh shares a birthday with a large number of big entertainment names: Jon Stewart, Ed Harris, Randy Newman, Paul Shaffer, Judd Nelson and Anna Nicole Smith.
Plus, today is Make Your Own Head Day. Seriously.
Best wishes, Josh, for the happiest of birthdays!
November 28th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Happy Birthday!
And Firefly is awesome - I rented the first and only season on DVD at the recommendation of a friend… and I loved it.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I can’t BELIEVE you dredged up my geek secret (geekret? you heard the word here first)! Not even my co-workers have unearthed my nerd life — sure, they suspect from time to time, but they don’t know how deep the rabbit hole goes!
Seriously — thanks for an unabashedly thoughtful and blush-worthy note, and for helping me to make my birthday memorable.
-Josh
November 30th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Happy “non-linear” birthday, Josh!
November 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Happy belated. Let these comments be considered “much charticle.” Hope the mountains and deserts are still bein’ good to ya, man.