Deborah Pastner

Deb Pastner is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Texas, Deb spent 24 years at the Minnesota Star Tribune, the largest media company in the state. During Deb’s tenure as Director of Photography and then Assistant Managing Editor/Photography, the Minnesota Star Tribune photo and video department was recognized by the Pulitzer Prizes, the World Press Awards, Pictures of the Year, the Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Online News Association, and Deb was named one of the best visual editors by both Pictures of the Year and NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition. During the 2021-2022 academic year, Deb was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Deb is a proud alumna of Wellesley College ( B.A.) and the Missouri School of Journalism (M.A.). Continuing the work she began with her master’s thesis, Deb is interested in researching how culture and technology are disrupting photojournalism’s norms and practices, and what the implications of these changes will be.

Email: dpastner@my.utexas.edu