Dr. Jennifer George-Palilonis is a professor in Ball State University’s Department of Journalism, and the Director of the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development. She holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the Indiana University School of Informatics & Computing. Since 2002, Jennifer has been a media design consultant and has worked on the redesigns of more than 30 newspapers nationwide. She is also the author of two books, The Multimedia Journalist (Oxford University Press, 2012) and A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting (Focal Press, 2016, 2006).