About Sean

Contact Info

O: 301-405-2530 * C: 202-590-2190
Email * Twitter @smussenden * LinkedIn * Facebook

(A note about Facebook: for some reason, Merrill college policy prevents me from accepting friend requests from students in classes I am currently teaching.  So, if you friend me and I don’t accept, that’s why.  I will accept all friend requests at the end of the semester).

Office Hours

3201 Knight Hall, in the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism building on the third floor.  I don’t really have office hours, so just pop in if you like.  I’m generally here from about 9 or 930 until 7ish.   You can also make an appointment.

Bio

Sean Mussenden is a Web developer and social media strategist at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

He came to the center from the Washington bureau of Media General News Service, where he helped lead the transformation of a print-only, one-deadline-a-day operation into a multimedia outfit operating on a continuous news cycle.

As a senior multimedia reporter and producer covering the White House, Congress and the presidential campaign for Media General, he blogged; wrote print and Web stories; shot, edited and produced audio slideshows and Web video; and produced on-air video packages for Media General’s 25 TV stations.  He also developed interactive online applications like dynamic maps and searchable databases, and spearheaded the bureau’s use of social networks.

A former print-only reporter who learned multimedia and Web production on his own with very little outside training, he is a new media evangalist who taught his colleagues and friends at other news organizations to create similar content.

Mussenden came to Washington from the Orlando Sentinel, where he covered the statehouse in Tallahassee, Fla.  Previously, he served as the paper’s state-roving general assignment reporter and the lead reporter covering the Walt Disney Co. on the business desk, where he covered (seriously) Tigger’s arrest and Pluto’s death.

Mussenden has bachelor’s degree in public policy and history from St. Mary’s College of Maryland (1999) and a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism (2000).  He is an adjunct professor at Maryland’s j-school, teaching news writing and online journalism.

He is a Master’s candidate in information management at the University of Maryland iSchool.

Oh, and the highlight of his professional career: interviewing Snoop Dogg.