Seth Prince is Student Media’s director and adviser of the department’s newsroom operations, including the OU Daily and Crimson Quarterly magazine. Since returning to OU in 2014, he has also been an adjunct instructor for Gaylord College.
He is a University of Oklahoma graduate who was a Chips Quinn Scholar at the Wichita Eagle and a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern at The Oregonian. He worked as a copy editor in Portland, copy editing the investigative project on the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that led the winning entry for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He also worked as a reporter and an assistant bureau chief before becoming assistant sports editor and then sports editor. He is an alumnus of the Poynter Institute’s Leadership Academy, the Maynard Institute’s Media Academy at Harvard University and the Newspaper Association of America’s PowerMind Fellowship. He has been named a College Media Association Honor Roll 4-year Newspaper Adviser and a CMA Distinguished 4-year Newspaper Adviser. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
He and his wife, Amy, live in Norman with their children, Jasper, Carter and Haddie.