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Kim Newton is an associate professor for visual journalism and multimedia in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Newton has twenty-six years experience in photojournalism, beginning as a freelance photojournalist based in Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, South Korea covering Asian news, business and feature stories for the New York Times, Forbes, Business Week, People, Time, U.S. News & World Report and Le Figaro to name a few. Notable assignments include: documentation of China's Muslim Uighur minority in the remote western province of Xinjiang, political and social unrest leading up to and including South Korea's first free elections, culminating in Seoul's hosting of the 1988 Olympics, ceremonies and cultural reaction surrounding the death of Japan's Emperor Hirohito.

From Asia, he joined Reuters News Pictures in London as picture editor for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Newton then joined the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service in Washington, D.C. as senior photo editor for international news. While at Knight Ridder Newton oversaw the September 11 terrorist attacks, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo, conflicts in the Middle East, Indonesia and Russia.

Kim Newton is the son of British stage and screen actor Robert Newton.