The November 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on photojournalist Lynsey Addario, an NPPA member who has won a very prestigious honor indeed, a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius award." Writer Bruce Young takes a look at Addario's career, and what she's doing today in Afghanistan, continuing her work as one of fewer than 10 photographers to ever receive the MacArthur grant.
Also in this issue, writer Robert Brandon looks at KUSA-TV in Denver who, despite the economy and some radical changes in the way they've done business in the past, decided to roll up their sleeves and to "still care" deeply about the quality of their work, an attitude that certainly helped them win NPPA's Station of the Year (Large Markets) honor again (for the 11th time) in the Best Of Photojournalism competition. In "Dover Revisited," Bruce Young ask why, after the 18-year photo ban was lifted, the media turned out in full force to witness the initial "dignified transfer of remains" but then, over time, their attention faded until now, on most days, a lone AP photographer witnesses the unloading of flag-drapped shipping caskets. And in September, some photographers in Pittsburgh were treated to mace in the face as police cracked down on G-20 economic summit protesters. These stories, plus a look at four new books, are featured in the November issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The October 2009 issue of News Photographer features a cover story written by author Bruce Young about photojournalist Lucian Read, who from Haiti to Iraq to Afghanistan, from shooting stills to HD video, is in it for the long haul. Also in this issue, the retired director of photography for the Associated Press, Hal Buell, writes about "Tough Pictures", some of history's graphic images that have moved the public to reaction; from Memphis, a feature story by Devin Greaney about Photojournalism & Spirituality; author and journalism educator Stephen Wolgast reviews the new Rick Smolan book Obama Time Capsule; and Multimedia Moments columnist Seth Gitner writes about a Newark Star-Ledger print and Web project that had five photographers covering six surgeries in two states for "Chain Of Life." These and many more features are in the October 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The September 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on multimedia ethics, what still photographers who are making the switch to shooting Web video are discovering about it, and what college professors are teaching about the topic. Also in this issue, author and teacher Stephen Wolgast reviews the new book "Humanity In War" that features text by James Nachtwey; Detroit's Rodney Curtis ruminates on his new Life In Layoff Land; photography editor Jim Michalowski investigates the complex relationship between photographers' understanding of image metadata and orphaned pictures; and the University of Missouri's David Rees and John Dengler write about the life and the many contributions of America's consummate photojournalist and photojournalism educator, Angus McDougall, who died in August at the age of 92. These and other stories are in the September 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The August 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a first-person cover story by photojournalist Ramin Talaie about his three-week assignment in Tehran, Iran, covering the days leading up to the presidential election and the violence and protests that followed. Also in this issue, news on the second anniversary of the deadly Phoenix news helicopter midair tragedy that killed four of a lawsuit settlement along with new safety recommendations; a feature about three Nebraska photojournalism students who are spending the summer on the road in a travel trailer with one of their professors, Bruce Thorson, searching for the impact of the Great Recession on Nebraskans; and Rino Pucci writes from Milan, Italy, about the historical and propaganda issues surrounding photographing "power." These features and more in the August 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The July 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by writer, director, and filmmaker Turk Pipkin about how to make a feature documentary film. Pipkin, whose writing credits include more than 100 hours of prime time network television comedy and eight books, along with an acting role on The Sopranos as Janice Soprano's narcoleptic, born-again boyfriend during the show's third season, has now made two significant documentary films, "Nobelity" and - releasing this Fall - "One Peace At A Time."
Also in this issue, Multimedia Moments author Seth Gitner takes a look at what happened in June in Las Vegas at NPPA's Multimedia Immersion Workshop held during Convergence '09, and editor Sue Morrow conducts a Q&A with Geri Migielicz, the former director of photography for the San Jose Mercury News who is now one of the founders of a new video production company, Story4. Photographer Jeff Widener looks back on the twentieth anniversary of his Tiananmen Square "Tank Man" photograph and remembers how a young American college student was the link for making his famous picture possible, and author Bruce Young's Commentary piece, "The Awards Pool," about what judges pick as winners in the big contests, will surely start a few conversations. These stories, and much more, in the July issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The June 2009 issue of News Photographer magzine features stories about how photojournalists cover the Kentucky Derby horse race; a look at what some photojournalists are doing to discover a new professional life after newspaper careers; freelance photojournalist Walter Astrada's journey from the soccer fields of Argentina to the ethnic clashes he's covered in Haiti, the Congo, and Kenya; and a feature about Cutting Edge editor of the year Ryan Delamater. These stories, and more features, in the June 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The May 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story about Patrick Farrell of the Miami Herald and Damon Winter of The New York Times and their 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning portfolios. Also in this issue, Bruce Young reviews the documentary film "The Death Of Kevin Carter" about a controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph widely known as "The Vulture" and the photographer who shot it and committed suicide soon afterwards; a story about the photographers who at one time made up the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before it stopped printing; a story about the lifting of the Dover Photo Ban and how fallen soldiers historically have been treated photographically; Brian McDermott takes a look at possible reasons why college photojournalism program enrollments are on the rise despite today's economy and the plight of newspapers; U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock is the first person to win the Military Photographer of the Year title a record four times; and Stephen Wolgast reviews Richard Street's new book, "Everyone Had Cameras," about the photographic depiction of America's farm workers. These and other stories in the May 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The April 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story about this year's new Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year that's written by a former Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year. WBFF-TV's Darren Durlach from Baltimore is this year's winner and he's profiled by Stan Heist, who won the same top Best Of Photojournalism honor in 2006. And there are three DVDs included with this issue for all NPPA members, discs that feature the 2008 Television Photography and Editing winners from last year's Best Of Photojournalism competition.
Also in this issue, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jim Sheeler looks at why the quiet photographs that graced the pages of The Rocky Mountain News were so successful day in and day out, and how the photography staff specialized in daily coverage of everyday people. (Sheeler and Todd Heisler won Pulitzers for their special series "Final Salute" in the Rocky in 2006). Also in this issue, Stephen Wolgast reviews Ed Kashi's new book, "Three"; author Dave Bolster writes about how photojournalist Anthony Suau has moved back to the United States and is in the process of "rediscovering America"; and Jamie Rose writes about her first-person experience with teaching documentary photography. These and other stories are in the April 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The March 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by John Hubbell about $5 Cover, a unique partnership between The Commercial Appeal in Memphis and MTV as newspapers search for a profitable path away from print. Also in this issue, Pulitzer Prize-winner Preston Gannaway talks about the trust and support she's received from her mentor and stepbrother, photojournalist Ross Taylor; Stephen Wolgast reviews Eddie Adams' new book on Vietnam; Bruce Young writes an ethics piece about "The Hand Of God And You"; and Seth Gitner writes Multimedia Moments about photographers turned filmmakers. These stories and other features in the March 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The February 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story that's an essay of a few of the most interesting photographs from the recent inauguration of America's 44th President, Barack Obama. Some of the other stories in this issue include photojournalist David Proeber's first-person account of his encounter with a fleeing gunman that ended in tragedy; Stephen Wolgast's review of Eugene Richards' new book "The Blue Room," the documentarian's first book in color; writer Julie Washington chronicles photographer Herral Long's six decades as a staff photographer at The Toledo Blade; and writer Heather Graulich conducts a question-and-answer session with New York photographer Donna Ferrato. These and other stories are featured in the February 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The January 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Alisa Booze Troetschel about shooting for non-profits and charities and NGOs as a career-building and portfolio-expanding exercise, as well as nurturing the photographer's soul while also building some new business.
Other stories in this issue include Times Union editor Rex Smith's essay about how a photojournalist's job is to present a true picture of the world, even if sometimes it isn't pretty; Sandy Huffaker's first-person account of covering a Marine Corps jet that crashed into his neighborhood, killing four; Stephen Wolgast's review of Reza's new book, "War + Peace"; Photography editor Joanne Ciccarello's first-person account of what's going on at The Christian Science Monitor as the newspaper shifts from a daily print product to the Web and a weekly tabloid; Bruce Young's take on WUSA-TV dropping the traditional three-person crew and shifting to VJs in Washington, DC; and a feature on the photojournalism students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who have started their own picture agency under the guidance of associate professor Bruce Thorson. These, and other stories, in the January 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The December 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine is the annual Best Of Photojournalism edition. This issue includes portfolios from the Photojournalists of the Year: John Moore of Getty Images, winner of the larger markets title; and Denny Simmons of the Evansville Courier & Press, winner of the smaller markets title. There’s also a photo essay from Mario Tama of Getty Images, winner of Cliff Edom’s “New America Award.” These features, and winners from all the still photography categories, and much more, in the December 2008 issue of News Photographer. And some good news: DVDs of the Best Of Photojournalism television photography and television editing winners will be included for all NPPA members in an upcoming issue of News Photographer magazine this Spring.
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The November 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on the Saturday Feature, a page one weekly picture story at The Herald in Jasper, IN, where they're celebrating its 30th anniversary. Herald editor John Rumbach writes about how the Saturday Feature got started, and what they've learned over the years about what it means to the southern Indiana community where the Rumbach's publish their third-generation family-owned newspaper. Reflecting on the Saturday Feature, photojournalist and editor Bryan Moss looks at how good photojournalism makes a community stronger through shared, intimate connections.
Also in this issue, Fox 21's news director Julie Moravchik writes about "The Little Station That Could," as she and her crew started two newscasts from scratch, first in Ashland, WI, and then again a few months later in Duluth, MN. Eugene Richard's new book "A Procession Of Them" is out now, and writer Stephen Wolgast finds in Richards' photographs why documenting human rights is such an important issue. In Texas, photojournalist Dave Garrett and pilot John Downhower died when KTRK-TV's news helicopter crashed into a state forest, and investigators are searching for what happened. And NPPA's two-time Video Editor of the Year title winner Shawn Montano in Denver has had "a shift in attitude" this second time around. These stories, and more, in the November 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The October 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on some of the photojournalists who were arrested while covering protesters at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN, and the fallout afterwards, along with some pictures from the clashes that you may not have seen before. Also in this issue, in his Multimedia Moments column Seth Gitner talks about point-and-shoot video cameras that are being used by some newspapers today to create Web-based multimedia content and the new DSLR cameras from Nikon and Canon that shoot digital still images and HD video. There's a new documentary film out about Eddie Adams and it features Adams telling salient parts of his life story in his own words, and writer Stephen Wolgast offers some insight into this new movie.
In a new book by National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, "The Life of a Photograph," he reveals that emotions, not events, are his subjects as he offers readers some alternative views to several of his best-know images. Photojournalist and college instructor Pat Davison shares how he and a group of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill multimedia students went to Phang-Nga, Thailand, almost four years after a tsunami leveled all life there and they documented the region's return to normalcy in a new Web site they created called "Andaman Rising." And on the twentieth anniversary of Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan, France, author and editor John G. Morris writes about the two decades of the festival's "thriving on disaster," with photographs by Kent Kobersteen. These stories, and more, inthe October 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The September 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story written by Bruce Young about photojournalist Mario Tama, and about how Tama kept going back to New Orleans to visually report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina long after other media moved on. Also in this issue Seth Gitner takes a look at the variety of multimedia workshops that have been created by the demand for training. In other stories, writer Stephen Wolgast reviews Pete Souza's new and well-timed book, "The Rise Of Barack Obama," and Jim Michalowski pulls together the numbers to paint a sobering picture of how many job losses, cut backs, buy-outs, and layoffs have hit newsrooms and photography departments in recent months. In a story that looks back on the life of a small boy who was caught up in a big, complicated war that eventually took his life, Bruce Young writes about a child that was photographed first by Chris Hondros in Iraq, then by Michele McDonald in Boston, before the young Rakan Hassan was killed by a bomb that targeted his home back in Iraq. And now that the torch has been extinguished in Beijing, some photographers who covered the Summer Olympic Games share a collection of a few of their favorite images that you may not have seen in print before. These, and other stories, in the September 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The August 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Frank Folwell about how Chinese photojournalists covered the deadly May earthquake. Also in this issue, Brian McDermott writes about how Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times covered one Chinese village's loss of an entire generation of school children in the disaster. Other stories include a feature by Heather Graulich about how a photograph of a Navy wife's pink shoes by Rich-Joseph Facun fired up a controversy among readers of The Virginian-Pilot; Seth Gitner writes in his monthly Multimedia Moments article about B-Roll.net founder Kevin Johnson; writer Stephen Wolgast reviews Bill Eppridge's latest book, A Time It Was, about the tragic presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968; and Alicia Wagner Calzada takes a break from studying law in Innsbrook, Austria, to bring us up to speed on the latest developments in Orphan Works legislation. These stories and more in the August issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The July 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Brian McDermott about some of the photojournalists who have been living on the road with the presidential candidates during the campaign. Also in this issue, Seth Gitner takes a look at what participants learned at NPPA's Multimedia Immersion workshop in May in Louisville; Karin Schwanbeck writes about what's happening with HDTV in local television newscasts; Tamara Welter reports on video cameras that can make high-quality frame grabs for publishing still images in print, and some of the newspapers that are using them; Bruce Young revisits David Douglas Duncan in an examination of this summer's upcoming political conventions; John Blodgett writes about 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Photojournalist of the Year (Small Markets) Denny Simmons of the Evansville Courier & Press; Stephen Wolgast reviews Ed Kashi's new book, "Curse of the Black Gold"; and much more in the July 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The June 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on television photojournalist Scott Jensen of KTUU-TV in Anchorage, AK, who is the 2008 Best Of Photojournalism's Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, the second time he's won the title. Jensen made the right choice going back to Alaska, writer Beth Bragg tells readers, where he's flourishing as a visual journalist and storyteller.
Also in this issue, a survey of young photojournalists by Scott Reinardy delivers a surprising result: more than a third of them are leaving the profession, and half of them don't know if they'll stick with it. Reporter Brian McDermott talks to three photojournalists who have found new lives after leaving. From Hanoi, Justin Mott takes a look at the impact of photo stories, and how photographers never really know what might happen after they put their work "out there" and readers respond. Also, J. Bruce Baumann takes a look at that photograph that lurks in the contest and assignment categories called "The Pictorial." What is it? Should it be a part of photojournalism? And writer Stephen Wolgast reviews a new book on documentary human rights photojournalism called "My Brother's Keeper," and Todd Maisel of the New York Daily News recounts how the Pope wore out New York's media during a three-day Manhattan visit. These and other stories in the June 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The May 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on National Geographic photojournalist Karen Kasmauski and her first-person account of a journey around the world to document the care and compassion, health and hope, of the nurses who care for the world's sick and injured. The result of her efforts are a new book, "Nurse: A World Of Care."
Dith Pran, the New York Times photojournalist who worked alongside Times' foreign correspondent Sydney H. Schanberg covering the Cambodian civil war in the early 1970s, and whose story of his amazing escape from forced labor camps in Cambodia during the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge became the basis for the movie "The Killing Fields," died in April. His lifelong friend Schanberg delivered the photojournalist's funeral eulogy, and penned a heartfelt remembrance of his friend for this issue.
Also in this issue, author Heather Graulich wrote a feature story about the new Military Photographer of the Year, Stacy Pearsall, who's now back from the war in Iraq and is ready for a new shooting job (maybe this time, one without bullets);the co-directors of the Missouri Photo Workshop, David Rees and Jim Curley, look back on the 60 years, 2,500 photographers, and 42 small towns that have made up the history of the annual workshop; and a look at this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs. These, along with other stories, are in the May issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The April issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on photojournalist Tim Hetherington, whose search for "the human" in the violence of the world landed him atop this year's World Press Photo awards. From his studio in London during a break from shooting, Hetherington tells writer Dave Bolster that he's a storyteller and talks about why some of the stories he chooses to tell are, for the most part, disturbing.
Also in this issue, Henri Cartier-Bresson once said that no one since Goya portrayed war like his Magnum Photos peer Philip Jones Griffiths, who died in March in London at the age of 72. Author Stephen Wolgast takes a look at the great photographer from Wales and the more than twenty years that Griffiths spent covering the Vietnam war and its aftermath, and the man who died as he so desperately wanted the world to live: in peace.
In other stories, filmmaker Laurence L. Levin explains how "Stryker's America," his new film about the great Roy Stryker and the FSA's depression era photography, was the birth of American documentary photography as the result of a "New Deal" public relations effort; photojournalist Jamil-Kareem Jones and writer Alexandra Burghardt share their first-person experience of visiting Tent City New Orleans; multimedia guru Seth Gitner tells how Tim Rasmussen and The Denver Post are staking out a base camp in the Web's new storytelling frontier from the Mile High City; and NPPA's ethics chair John Long takes a look at HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography and its impact on photojournalism and ethics. These and other stories are in the April issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The March 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on "Defining Moments" by author and photojournalism historian Hal Buell, who writes that it takes more than a great photograph to earn the designation of a "defining moment." Buell says, "Photographs called defining moments abound in such significant numbers these days that the phrase is in danger of losing its cachet." Also in this issue, author Stephen Wolgast writes a review of Jim Lo Scalzo's book "Evidence of My Existence." The U.S. News & World Report photojournalist penned the book not to promote his pictures, but to his explain his choices over the years as he covered stories in more than 60 countries. Other features include a look at solo video journalist Scott Rensberger through the eyes of the BBC's Laura Ellis. Rensberger's been storming London working with the BBC to teach video storytelling, and Richard Pyle tells the story behind the recently-discovered death photograph of World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle. These and other stories in the March 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The February 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features two covers, and which cover you receive depends upon whether you've listed your NPPA membership as a "still" photographer or as a "television" photographer. Those on the television membership mailing list will receive a cover featuring WDTN-TV's Bob "Scoop" Phillips, who has been on the street covering news in Dayton and Central Ohio for more than 50 years in the same job. Writer Julie E. Washington and photojournalist Skip Peterson followed Phillips on his beat to tell the story of the reporter/photographer who's been bringing Dayton viewers breaking news for five decades.
The magazine's other cover story is on the growing problem of homelessness and poverty in America, and what some newspapers and photojournalists have been doing to cover the story, and what they may do in the coming months as the economy heads toward a recession and the problem grows even larger. Featured in this package are photojournalists Michael S. Williamson of The Washington Post; Kuninori Takahashi of the Chicago Tribune; documentary photographer Brother Vincent Reyes O.F.M. Capuchin of Detroit's Capuchin Soup Kitchen; "Season to Share" by The Palm Beach Post; and others who are making an effort to not only cover homelessness and poverty in their communities, but to make a difference in the lives of people who are in need.
Also in this issue, "Pictures Of Massacre" by author Bruce Young, who examines whether what happened in Haditha, Iraq, and the photographs by Lucian Read are an extension of what happened in My Lai, Vietnam, and photojournalist David LaBelle writes "Thank you, Mr. Mac." These and other stories in the February 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The January 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on the 62nd College Photographer of the Year, Travis Dove of Ohio University, who's off to intern this summer at The Boston Globe before enjoying the big opportunity that comes with winning the CPOY title, a Fall internship at National Geographic magazine. Writer Heather Graulich found out that early in his career Dove learned an important lesson about succeeding in photojournalism: "Work hard, and always be working." Also in this issue, author Stephen Wolgast reviews Bill Burke's legendary book I Want to Take Picture, originally published by Nexus Press in 1987 and now re-issued by Twin Palms. Burke tells his tale of being a photographer who missed the Vietnam War, but a decade later went anyway. In Cleveland, author Julie Washington profiles Ohio photojournalists Ron Kuntz and his son, John Kuntz, who's followed in his dad's rather big footsteps, in "Like Father, Like Son." Former Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year Art Donahue, who was also an NPPA Regional POY for five consecutive years, writes from Boston about "Solo Video" and how to do it on your own. Donahue says that journalism students today should get used to the fact that they'll be working alone. "In the future, the crew will be you," he says. These stories, and a look at some of the dramatic photographs that came out of California's recent week of devastating wildfires, in the January 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The December 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine is the annual Best Of Photojournalism edition, and for television members the issue will also include two DVDs of the Best Of Photojournalism television photography and television editing winners. This issue includes portfolios from the Photojournalists of the Year: Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times, winner of the larger markets title; and Mary F. Calvert of The Washington Times, winner of the smaller markets title. There’s also a photo essay from Sarah L. Voisin, winner of Cliff Edom’s “New America Award.” These features, and winners from all the still photography categories, and much more, in the December 2007 issue of News Photographer.
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The November issue of News Photographer magazine features photojournalist and NPPA member David Stephenson's first-person account of the four years he spent documenting Fayette County's new Drug Court program by following the life of one of its subjects, Dawn Smith, a Kentucky mother addicted to pain pills, for the Lexington Herald-Leader. The newspaper published the work as a six-part series with 18 full inside news pages, and online as a six chapter multimedia gallery with story resources. "A New Dawn?" was a project Stephenson initiated as the result of a routine daily news assignment to cover a graduation ceremony at his county's new Drug Court, and it's a story he's lived with between regular assignments since late 2003.
Also in this issue, Ed Breen of The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana, takes a look at David and Peter Turnley's new book McClellan Street, a neighborhood long gone that was the subject of the Turnley's first serious photographic effort as young men who grew up in the northeastern Indiana town. And writer and college journalism professor Lee Anne Peck writes about three Croatian photojournalists who became war photographers almost by default: Darko Bandic, Filip Horvat, and Nikola Solic. These, and other features, are in the November issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The October 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on news helicopter safety issues, training, pilot experience, and what can be done right now to make HENG work safer. The story follows up on September's cover story about two news helicopters that collided midair over Phoenix and crashed, killing four journalists who were covering a police car chase. The accident raised questions about whether what some television stations are doing with news helicopters, and the use of pilots as reporters who are flying while broadcasting live, is safe- or if there are changes that need to be made before federal regulators step in and make the changes for them.
Also in this issue, writer Heather Graulich untangles the tarnished legacy of photographer Joe O'Donnell, who for many years claimed that some famous photographs taken by other photographers was his own work. In other stories, David Frank of The New York Times has made the move from still photography and editing to shooting video for the newspaper's Web site. Writer Scott Robinson takes a look at what Frank's doing with the switch. When Jacob Bailey was a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and combat photographer in Iraq, he was always aware of the children that surrounded him. Bailey reflects on them and his experience in "Children Of War." In other features, Brian McDermott examines the media's relationship with social networking Web sites; Stephen Wolgast reviews Thomas Dworzak's new book, M*A*S*H* I*R*A*Q*; and Doug Legore looks at some of the television Photographers of the Year who decided to keep shooting, and not to move on, after winning the title. These stories and more in the October issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The September issue of News Photographer magazine looks at what happened in Phoenix, Arizona, when two news helicopters from KNXV-TV Channel 15 and KTVK-TV Channel 3 collided and crashed while covering a police chase, killing four journalists onboard, and asks the question about whether what some TV stations are routinely doing with news helicopters today is safe. Also in this issue, Dan Habib of The Concord Monitor writes a first-person account of making his first documentary film, "Including Samuel," an examination of the practice of inclusion of people with severe handicaps, such as cerebral palsy, in daily life. Television photojournalist, editing software instructor, and recent graduate student Peg Achterman wrote "The Good Life" about her career in TV after reading another essay that she felt was the opposite of her experience, and former TV Photographer of the Year Doug Legore concludes his 12-part series on other former TV POYs and where they are now. This month's subject: Doug Legore himself. And now that the NFL season is underway, another look at those red vests that the NFL says aren't for advertising, but are for security purposes. These and other stories in the September issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The August issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on Mary F. Calvert, the 2007 Best Of Photojournalism Photojournalist of the Year for Smaller Markets, who was a college student with a camera hanging out with the news photographers outside George Washington University's hospital after President Ronald Reagan was shot when it became clear to her what she wanted to do with her life. Today she covers the White House and world news for The Washington Times. Also in this issue is a feature story by writer Kevin P. Coughlin about life after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, as he talks with four former winners about their images and experiences with journalism's top honor. Photojournalist Todd Mizener writes about an idea he had to get the community, its new library, and the newspaper involved in a common project, and Doug Legore continues his ongoing series of tracking down former television Photographers of the Year to see what they're doing now. This month he focuses on the legendary Darrell Barton. And radio personality and former television reporter Francene Cucinello confesses in "Reel Love" that she can't date or fall in love with a photojournalist until she's seen his demo tape. These, and other stories, in the August issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The July 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on Andy Shilts of KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, the 2007 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, who works hard on every story to find a new way to begin his storytelling. The feature was photographed by Jim Gehrz, one of NPPA's former Newspaper Photographers of the Year. Also in this issue, a look at what came out of the NPPA Photojournalism Summit and Multimedia Immersion program in Portland in June, and the big things that are coming on the horizon in newspaper multimedia. Writer Julie Washington, who writes about television for the Cleveland Plain Dealer in Ohio, takes a look at why a couple of stations in Denver and Minneapolis seem to be the ones setting the standards for television photojournalism, but are other stations around the country following in their footsteps or not? And does good TV photojournalism equate to ratings? In other stories, Doug Legore continues his year-long series of tracking down other former TV Photographers of the Year, and this month it's Scott A. Rensberger who won the title in 1992; Brian Patrick Lehmann wins the Hearst Photojournalism Championship in San Francisco; North Carolina's Stewart Pittman takes a look "Through A Lens, Darkly" and wonders what kind of karma he's piling up as a TV news photojournalist; and attorney and former photojournalist Mickey H. Osterreicher, NPPA's general legal counsel, takes a look at the current situation for cameras in New York courts. These, and other features, in the July 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The June issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on photojournalist Carolyn Cole from the Los Angeles Times, her career as a news photographer and the gift she brings to photojournalism. Also in this issue, "Going HD In Nashville" by WTVF-TV's Clint Smart and "Final Foal" by Francene Cucinello in Louisville, about WLKY-TV photojournalist Scott Eckhardt's fast daily assignment about a horse that turned into a three-year documentary, are features about TV photojournalism. And former TV Photographer of the Year Doug Legore continues his series of tracking down other former TV POYs to see what they're doing today. This month, Legore catches up with the 1992 Ernie Crisp Television Photographer of the Year title winner, Mark Anderson. Meanwhile in Florida, writer Heather Graulich tells readers how photojournalist Michael Laughlin of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is turning tragedy into triumph in Haiti, and in Bloomington, Indiana, the novelist and essayist Scott Russell Sanders reviews the latest book from photojournalism professor and National Geographic photographer Steve Raymer, Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora. These stories, and more, in the June issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The May 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a look at this year's Pulitzer Prizes for Photography won by Renée C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee and Oded Balilty of the Associated Press. Photojournalist Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times was also a Pulitzer winner this year, as he and two Times reporters won the Explanatory Reporting category for their five-part series, "Altered Oceans."
Also in this issue “Truth Will Out,” an in-depth look at the ethical disaster at The Toledo Blade created by photographer Allan Detrich’s serial digital alteration of images, and what the Blade's editors found when they continued to dig back several years into their archives after he resigned. Following these and other digital alterations in The New York Times, People magazine, the New York Post, and others, some editors are taking a fresh look at the issues surrounding photojournalism ethics and wondering if there isn't a bigger problem out there than many suspect.
In other features, Marianne Fulton reviews Colin Finlay’s new book, Testify; J. Bruce Baumann retires in Evansville; photojournalists from The Intelligencer and the Bucks County Courier Times volunteer along the Gulf Coast to replace cherished family portraits destroyed by Hurricane Katrina; and Doug Legore continues his series of tracking down other former TV POYs to see what they're doing now. This month he profiles Bob Brandon, a two-time TV POY who won his first title in 1975 with stories that were shot on film and spliced together with tape. These stories, and more, in the May issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The April 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a roundup of the top winners in NPPA's Best Of Photojournalism 2007 competition as the judging concluded at the end of March. Also in this issue is a feature story on photojournalist James Whitlow Delano, an American-born Tokyo-based photographer who sees the world through one - and only one - lens, the 35mm f2 that's always on his Leica M-2. In addition, combat photojournalist USAF Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall writes about what it's like to survive an ambush in Iraq armed with a camera, a gun, and a medical kit, and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Jerry Gay tells about helping kids at a Seattle cancer center's school learn how to use disposable cameras to discover and express their own views of the world.
Also, Alabama photojournalist Bryan Bacon tells what it was like to cover a school bus tragedy, and former TV Photographer of the Year Doug Legore continues his series of tracking down other former TV POYs to see what they're doing now. This month he profiles Lisa Berglund, the first woman to win NPPA's top television photography award. These stories, and more, in the April 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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While his phrase, "the decisive moment," is probably the first thing we think of regarding Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographic historian and journalism professor Claude Cookman says the photographer's death reminds us of the huge debt we photojournalists owe to the French giant who stopped actively photographing more than 30 years ago. John G. Morris wrote a remembrance of his friend and coworker Henri Cartier-Bresson for News Photographer and it was edited for length to fit the magazine, but it is published in its full length here.
Karen Kasmauski has been on the frontlines of the world's health struggle for at least fifteen years, first with The Virginian-Pilot, and now with National Geographic. In Having an Impact, News Photographer tells the full story of this photojournalist's fascinating journey in her own words.
Photographers with little or no experience covering wildfires might not know what gear to have ready to go at a moment's notice. What's In Your Fire Kit?, a web extra from News Photographer, provides you with some guidance.
News Photographer magazine supports the efforts of the National Press Photographers Association in its role as the voice of the photojournalist by communicating news, identifying trends, delineating issues, and providing information, and recognizing the work of photojournalists. The columns and articles that appear in the monthly magazine are often cited as "the authority" on topics ranging from law and ethics to technology. A subscription to the magazine is a benefit of NPPA membership, but non-members can also order a subscription.
Donald R. Winslow
