An appeal by photographer Bill Frakes contesting a Title IX complaint that he sexually harassed a female student while working as a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been denied.
Mathias Svold of the Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark has been named the 72nd College Photographer of the Year with the Gold award from the competition judged at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Mateusz Baj of the London College of Communication in London, England was named the Runner-up College Photographer of the Year with a Silver award in the Portfolio category.
Carlos Schiebeck, a former photo bureau manager for United Press International and Agence France-Presse, has died from esophageal cancer, according to friends. He was in his ‘80s.
The day of a police officer's funeral, the Buffalo News printed an 8-page broadsheet special section with live photos and stories from the service and hand-delivered 12,000 copies within an hour to those in attendance.
The National Press Photographers Association has extended its deadline to November 10, 2017, for accepting nominations for candidates for its Board of Directors and Regional Chairs.
Lennox "Red" McLendon, a longtime staff photographer for The Associated Press, died in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 24. He was 74. McLendon joined the AP in 1976 and covered major sporting events, politics and often the celebrities of Southern California. In the early '90s, he moved to Las Vegas as the first AP staff photographer for Nevada.
Journalists have been arrested without cause several times over the last few months while covering protests in St. Louis and press advocacy groups, including the National Press Photographers Association, have joined in asking the mayor to investigate these incidents.
