Stan Heist joins the 2012 Faculty

Stan Heist joins the 2012 NSC faculty.  Heist is a veteran of broadcast newsrooms, working for network affiliates in Dayton, OH, Richmond, VA, Baltimore, and Washington as a newsroom manager, photojournalist and editor. In addition to his work at Merrill, he works as a freelance videographer, editor, writer, and consultant.

Stan received ten regional Emmy awards for his work, twice named a Regional Photographer of the Year, and is the 005 National Press Photographers Association National Television News Photographer of the Year. He has taught more than 25 seminars in video journalism to professionals, students, and the military in the United States and abroad, and is the co-director of the NPPA’s annual News Video Workshop on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Outside of Merrill, Stan serves the community as a Skywarn weather spotter for the Baltimore/Washington forecast office of the National Weather Service.