R.B. Brenner

Director, School of Journalism at UT Austin

Twitter: @rbbrenner
R.B. Brenner is the director of the School of Journalism and the G B Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he was the deputy director of Stanford University’s journalism program and taught courses on public issues reporting, digital journalism and narrative writing. He joined the faculty at Stanford in September 2010 after leaving The Washington Post, where his roles included metropolitan 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, and played a leadership role in merging the digital and print newsrooms.  

Brenner is panel chair for “Video everywhere: From live coverage to VR, 360 and other innovative formats” at ISOJ 2017 (April 21 at 4:55 p.m.)

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