Josh Meltzer began teach­ing as a Photojournalist-in-Residence at West­ern Ken­tucky University’s pho­to­jour­nal­ism pro­gram in the Fall of 2009.  There he teaches mul­ti­me­dia and pho­to­jour­nal­ism to under­grad­u­ate stu­dents in one of the nation’s top pho­to­jour­nal­ism programs. 

After 9 years as a staff pho­tog­ra­pher and mul­ti­me­dia jour­nal­ist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Vir­ginia, Josh Meltzer accepted a Ful­bright Schol­ar­ship in August 2008 to work and teach in Guadala­jara, Méx­ico  for one year where he worked on a doc­u­men­tary pho­tog­ra­phy and mul­ti­me­dia project about the migra­tion of indige­nous fam­i­lies within Méx­ico.  In addi­tion to his own pho­tog­ra­phy, he taught pho­tog­ra­phy to a group of 18, 11–16-year-olds through a pro­gram called Lis­ten to My Pictures.

While at The Roanoke Times, Josh cre­ated his first audio slideshow in 1999, and over the next decade cre­ated over a hun­dred audio slideshows, both on daily dead­line, and for long-term projects.  A few years later he began using video in his report­ing, and now uses a mix to cre­ate sto­ries through the voices of his sub­jects and nat­ural sound.

At the end of his time at The Roanoke Times, his long-term mul­ti­me­dia project from 2008 on those who pro­vide care for the elderly, called Age of Uncer­tainty, won the First Place Best Doc­u­men­tary Prize from the POYi, the com­mu­nity ser­vice award from the Vir­ginia Press Asso­ci­a­tion, and the 1^st place con­ver­gence award from the APME.  The project, shot over 9 months was made up of 8 mul­ti­me­dia stories.

His still and mul­ti­me­dia work has been rec­og­nized by the NPPA’s Best of Pho­to­jour­nal­ism com­pe­ti­tion where he was the national 2006 Pho­to­jour­nal­ist of the Year for mar­kets less than 115,000 cir­cu­la­tion.  His audio slideshows, video sto­ries and port­fo­lios have been rec­og­nized by the Atlanta Pho­to­jour­nal­ism Com­pe­ti­tion, North­ern and South­ern Short Course and the Soci­ety of News­pa­per Design.