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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The March 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story written by veteran television photojournalist Doug Vogt, who along with ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff was almost killed a year ago by an IED in Iraq. Vogt tells about his new life, which doesn’t include war after what happened on his last news assignment. Living in the south of France with his wife and daughters, Vogt is now making the shift to cinematography and these days he’s traveling to the States for his medical care at the Navy hospital in Bethesda and training on Panasonic’s new camera in Burbank, CA.
Also in this issue, New York-based photography editor Kevin P. Coughlin asks editors why newspapers today are using more wire photos and agency photos instead of staff photos, when staff photographers are covering the same events. And photojournalist and writer David Hume Kennerly pens a remembrance of his old boss, President Gerald R. Ford, who loved photographers, knew them by first name, and was humble and secure enough in himself to let the lenses be around him even during his most private times. Other stories include a feature on Cutting Edge editor Ryan Borgman; combat photographer Jeremy T. Lock’s recent Bronze Star; NPPA’s mentoring program; and Doug Legore continues to track down former TV Photographers of the Year, including Colorado’s Sam Allen.
For TV members in the United States, this issue also includes the Best Of Photojournalism 2006 DVD of the winning stories. These features, and more, in the March 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The February 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by photojournalist and civilian soldier Anthony P. Bolante, a Seattle-based Reuters contract photographer who answered duty's call after 9/11 by putting down his cameras and picking up his National Guard helicopter. It hasn't been easy for him, or his wife, or the many soldiers in his command, but the long-time NPPA member has distinguished himself in service in Afghanistan in the war on terror while leading the helicopters and pilots of Task Force Phoenix. Also in this issue, the story of John Long of The Hartford Courant, who for 35 years has been a photographer and editor at the first newspaper he went to work for after graduating college and teaching high school English. For almost as long, he's been the NPPA's voice on matters of ethics and standards and led the organization through a complete re-write of the Code of Ethics to be in stride with the digital era. Now he's headed back to the classroom to teach, only this time it's photojournalism, ethics, and picture editing for the lucky students at Syracuse University.
Other stories in this issue include a look at Gary Harwood's new book Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community, by Kent State journalism instructor Teresa Hernandez; Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John Kaplan's photojournalism course at the University of Florida that teaches students how to perform international photojournalism by getting on an airplane and going on assignment together to Central America each year; and Doug Legore continues his 12-part series tracking down other former TV POYs to see what they're doing now. This month it's John DeTarsio, the 1994 title winner, who's globetrotting with his cameras from Egypt to Moscow and recently to Muncie, Indiana, for forty days and forty nights of shooting reality TV as "celebrities" became police officers. These stories, and more, in the February 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The January 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by photojournalist Steve Simon, a former Canadian Newspaper Photographer of the Year who is now based in New York, who is the author of several outstanding photography books including his most recent, Heroines & Heroes: Hope, HIV And Africa. Reading the results of a study that concluded that Canada is becoming more like the United States, Simon – armed with an NPPA directory – traveled across northern America searching for stories and subjects. Along the way, he looked up NPPA members who steered him to local interests, and photo possibilities. The results will be his next book, America At The Edge. Also in this issue, television writer Karin Schwanbeck takes a look at the continuing shift toward tapeless photography using digital cameras at television stations across the country in “Tapeless In Topeka (And Soon Everywhere Else).” And former Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year Doug Legore continues his 12-part series of tracking down other former TV POYs to see what they’re doing now. This month, he’s gone high in the Rocky Mountains to find Chris Wheeler, the 1987 title winner. These stories, and much more, in the January 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The December 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine is the annual Best Of Photojournalism edition, and thanks to Canon USA this issue of the magazine is polybagged to include a 34-page special “ride along” publication that tells all about their new Canon Photo Printers for Professionals. This issue of Best Of Photojournalism winners includes portfolios from the Photojournalists of the Year: David Guttenfelder of the Associated Press, winner of the larger markets title; and Josh Meltzer of The Roanoke Times, winner of the smaller markets title. There’s also a photo essay from Vincent Winter, winner of Cliff Edom’s “New America Award.” These features, and winners from all the still photography categories, and much more, in the December 2006 issue of News Photographer.
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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
