Vikki Porter
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Vikki Porter is director of the Knight Digital Media Center and supervises professional development programs for new media journalists at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She was the founding director of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the Annenberg School.
During her 30-year journalism career, Porter started a newspaper, served as top editor for three community newspapers and shared a 1986 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal while city editor of The Denver Post. Most recently, she was executive editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, Calif. Porter was a Knight Professional-in-Residence at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas in 1987-88 and in 1988-89 a Knight Journalism Fellow in Studies of Law at Yale Law School, where she earned a master’s.
