Last updated: November 20th, 2009
AOL's CEO has told employees that he's looking for up to "2,500 volunteers" to be fired in December, hoping that fully a third of the company's payroll will step forward and take buyouts. Otherwise the AOL will have to ax people on its own. At this point it's too early to tell how many of AOL's photography department employees, as many as 40 people in the States and overseas and headed by Cathaleen Curtiss, may leave...."
Greg Kahn, a staff photographer with the Naples Daily News, has won the 2008 NPPA Monthly News Clip Contest title. This is the first year a MNCC National Photographer of the Year has been named, MNCC contest chair Denny Simmons said, "although we're pretty sure photographers have been keeping track of these points for decades, now it's official."..."
Photojournalist Alex Welsh, a 2009 San Francisco State University photojournalism graduate who last week won gold in the 64th annual College Photographer of the Year contest for his work in Hunters Point, has written a blog entry about his experience in NPPA's new student Web blog, "The Visual Student."..."
