Matt McClane is the design editor for the Chattanooga Times Free Press’ multiple award-winning magazines and regional special publications. As special projects designer and art director for the newsroom, McClane designs longform investigative and narrative features and a variety of accompanying websites, logos, marketing materials and information graphics. He also directs magazine and newspaper photoshoots and creates custom illustrations. Two of those projects were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and two received first-place awards from Editor & Publisher’s EPPY awards for digital journalism. With more than 25 years of experience in journalism and publication design, McClane has garnered multiple best of show and first-place awards from the Tennessee Press Association, more than 10 first-place design awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and earned an award of excellence from the Society for News Design’s “World’s Best Designed” competition for achievement in print and digital design. McClane champions storytelling of all kinds across all types of media, and he loves being the conduit pipe between a journalist’s keyboard, a photographer’s camera and a reader’s brain.