Steve Rice Convergence Journalism Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism Steve Rice is an assistant professor in convergence journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. Previously, he was a member of the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s news video team (2009-2010) that produced studio and news projects for the Star Tribune’s website. He helped produce a daily news program called "NewsBreak," a number of sports and entertainment weekly videos, plus breaking news and feature events. Rice worked as a still photographer and videographer for the Star Tribune’s feature sections (2007-2009) with an emphasis on food photography, video stories and general feature photography. Previously, he designed and directed the production of Knight Ridders’ book, “Come Hell and High Water,” on the flooding that devastated Grand Forks, N.D. He worked as a picture and project editor for Bill Gates’ digital imaging company, responsible for editing a photographer’s archive of work to be included in the Corbis stock collection. Under his leadership, the Miami Herald photography department won two photo Pulitzer Prizes and were finalists on three other occasions. The photo department’s work from Hurricane Andrew was part of the Gold Medal for Public Service in 1993. Judd Slivka Convergence Journalism Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism Judd Slivka teaches multimedia and mobile journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. He has worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Arizona Republic newspapers, as well as leading the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' communications and IT efforts.