News Photographer Magazine
September 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine
The September issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on Joseph J. Rosenthal, an NPPA Life member who took one of the most famous and iconic photographs in American history, of soldiers raising the American flag over Mount Surabachi during the bloody World War II battle for the tiny island of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific. Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for photography for the image in 1945, died in late August at the age of 94. Also in this issue, writer Mike Binkley tells how KSPT-TV's Jason Hanson "runs and guns and gets it done," a video editor who also still shoots and - it just so happens - also turns out to be NPPA's Best Of Photojournalism's 2006 TV Video Editor of the Year, with photographs by last year's NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year, Jim Gehrz. In Indiana for the past eight years, photojournalist Steve Linsenmayer has been documenting Burmese refugees who came to Fort Wayne to start new lives. Editors at The News-Sentinel decided it was time to show Hoosier readers the far-away homeland where so many of their new neighbors came from (the city has the largest Burmese refugee community in the States), so they sent Linsenmayer to Burma and Thailand to bring home the pictures. Other stories in this issue include the first of a twelve-part series as former TV POY Doug Legore searches for past TV POY winners to discover where they are now, and what they're doing with their storytelling skills; photojournalism student Gadi Schwartz takes readers on a Mexican Journey as he follows a family's ten-day illegal trek across the border and into Colorado where they annually look for work; Charles Abel dives into what editors are looking for in cover letters from job and internship seekers; and a look at three new photography books by Steve Simon, Neil Leifer, and some New York City high school kids, reviewed by Steve Wolgast and Marianne Fulton. These stories and more in the September issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The August 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on the 2006 Best Of Photojournalism Photojournalist of the Year for Larger Markets, David Guttenfelder of the Associated Press. He grew up as a high school wrestler living on a farm in Iowa, then college and photography turned the world into his beat. Guttenfelder’s spent the last ten years covering most of the world’s major conflicts and news stories. Also, television news cameraman Kurt Volkert – who covered the world for three decades for CBS News, and after his experience in Cambodia co-authored the book Cambodian Odyssey, a story about the deaths of journalists covering that war – compares the “bad old days” of Cambodia with the “bad new days” of Iraq and the dangers photojournalists face today in that conflict. In other stories, writer Jim Trotter tells the story of Janet Reeves, the director of photography for The Rocky Mountain News, who came into the newspaper as a lab tech and rose through the shooting and picture editing ranks to lead a department that now wins Pulitzer Prizes for photography; and in first-person accounts, some of the photographers who persevered and survived Hurricane Katrina and who have spent the last year in New Orleans covering the city’s recovery share their experiences. Also in this issue are reviews of Bryan Moss’s new book, Photosynthesis, and David Friend’s new book, Watching The World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11. These stories and more in the August 2006 issue of News Photographer.
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The July 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on the 2006 Best Of Photojournalism Photojournalist of the Year for smaller markets, Josh Meltzer of The Roanoke Times. Writer Mary Bishop tells how Meltzer was destined to be a photojournalist, even from his high school days. Also, 34 years after “The Naplam Girl,” photojournalist Nick Ut assures those concerned about Phan Thi Kim Phuc that “Everything is okay now." Cindi Christie tells how the Contra Costa Times tackled "Where We Live" monthly for more than two years, and Stephen Wolgast talks with Ken Light about his new book, Coal Hollow, and the photographs and oral history he's done of West Virginia's collapsed coal miners. There's a tribute to a great newspaper editor, the late Barry Bingham, Jr., of Louisville, KY, and Corey Dellenbach tells what it's like to be a one-man-band newspaper sports editor and staff photographer at the Shawano Leader. These stories and more in the July 2006 issue of News Photographer.
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The June 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on the 2006 Best Of Photojournalism Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, Stan Heist of WBFF-TV in Baltimore, MD. Heist is known for his storytelling and editing skills, but writer Kathleen Cairns tells about another side of Heist that only someone who knows him very well can see. Also in this issue, Jim Wooten, retired senior correspondent for ABC News, responds to the bombing in Iraq of his friends and cowokers – photographer Doug Vogt and ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff – by recalling the photojournalists he’s worked with over the years in “The Cameraman”; a look at this year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photography from The Dallas Morning News for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina and from Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News for “Final Salute”; Tom Van Dyke of the Chicago Tribune reports on the latest in Flash slideshows and multimedia authoring tools from a recent multimedia bootcamp at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism; and a slew of summer book reviews including Uncommon Valor by Hal Buell, State Fair by Arthur Grace, Indian Nations by Danny Lyon, and No Place For Children by Steve Liss. These stories and more in the June 2006 issue of News Photographer.
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The April/May 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine is a special edition that looks at NPPA’s 60-year history, from the circumstances that led organizers and founders Joe Costa, Burt Williams, and Charles J. Mack to sense a need for the organization back in 1946 until today, when NPPA faces a sea change in digital technology, publishing, and business practices. Author Marianne Fulton, former chief curator of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and author of the book Eyes Of Time: Photojournalism In America, writes about NPPA from the perspective of an editor and historian. Dave Wertheimer writes in Gain Is Good about how the NPPA changed the storytelling and ethics of television news. NPPA Ethics Chairperson John Long sees the ethical angst that many photojournalists struggle with today in a digital age that helped create an ethical fog that often challenges integrity. Common Cents author Mark Loundy sees how the business of editorial photojournalism has changed, and how some photojournalists were too slow to react and now may not survive the new economics. And photographic critic and curator Victoria Corcoran looks at photojournalism that has crossed over from newsprint onto gallery walls and asks, “But Is It Art?”These stories and more in the April-May issue of News Photographer.
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The March 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story about the five men who have photographed all 40 Super Bowl games since the first championship match at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles in 1967: Walter Iooss Jr., John Biever, Mickey Palmer, Tony Tomsic, and Dick Raphael. Also in this issue the story of what shooting conditions were like for several photojournalists at the Winter Olympic Games in Italy, and writer Stanley Leary takes a look at a great photographer's new book, Light: The Photojournalism Of Don Rutledge. Also, Davis Barber reports on photojournalism's slide "from a handshake to the dotted line" and reports on his survey results, describing the climate created for freelance photojournalists in the aftermath of Tasini v. The New York Times. These stories and more in the March issue of News Photographer.
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The February 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by author Ryan Reynolds about how the staff of the Courier & Press in Evansville, Indiana, responded to a midnight killer tornado that killed 24, injured 200 others, and destroyed hundreds of homes. Also in this issue the story of Elwood P. Smith, a photographer for the Philadelphia Daily News for more than six decades, a life-long NPPA member whose card was signed by NPPA's founder, Joseph Costa. Writer Oscar Palomo takes a look at what it means to be a TV chief photographer these days, and Jonathan Elderfield of the Chicago Tribune gives his perspective on "picture editor fatigue." Writer David Adams-Smith and photojournalist Jeanie Adams-Smith tell about the seven-year effort it took to produce their book, Children Of Divorce, as well as a look at this year's winner of the NPPA-Nikon Sabbatical Grant, Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu of Brooklyn, NY. These stories, and much more, in the February issue of News Photographer.
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January 2006 cover, inside spread
The January 2006 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by photojournalist Lara Solt of The Dallas Morning News, who has spent much of her career learning how to do top-notch storytelling in suburbia. She practices her craft now in McKinney, TX, in Collin County, a wealthy Dallas suburb, but earlier in her career she learned suburban storytelling and community photojournalism while working for Copley Newspapers and Sun Publications in suburban Chicago after freelancing in New York City. Solt talks about finding the soul of suburbia by meeting the challenge of making meaningful pictures.
Also in this issue, Karin Schwanbeck takes another look at “the VJ flap,” where things aren’t working out exactly as planned in Nashville, TN, with the “one-man-band” concept of video journalists at WKRN-TV, where at least 12 folks have decided to either leave the station or were laid off after VJ guru Michael Rosenblum’s concept to replace traditional two-person news crews was initiated. Also, Jenn Fields writes about the new kid on the block, Casey Templeton, the 60th College Photographer of the Year who won with a portfolio built after he took at trip last year to Columbia, MO, to watch the open judging and to learn what it takes to have a first-place portfolio. And John G. Morris, the undisputed dean of photojournalism these days, files a “Letter From London” from the new FRONTLINE Club. These stories and much more, in the January issue of News Photographer.
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December 2005 cover, inside spread
The December 2005 of News Photographer magazine is the annual Best Of Photojournalism edition, and for NPPA members who are associated with television this issue also includes a special Best Of Photojournalism DVD of the winners' stories and the contest judging that you can watch on your own TV. The December issue also includes a special 48-page "ride along" publication from Canon USA that tells all about their new Canon EOS Digital Systems for professional photojournalists. This issue of Best Of Photojournalism winners includes portfolios from Newspaper Photographer of the Year Jim Gehrz of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Magazine Photographer of the Year Chris Anderson of Magnum Photos, and a photo essay from Jon Lowenstein, winner of the Cliff Edom's "New America Award." These features, and winners from all the still photography categories, and much more, in the December 2005 issue of News Photographer.
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The November 2005 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Italian photojournalist and author Helen M. Giovanello, who spent last summer documenting refugee camps in North Uganda, along with “The Night Commuters” (children who walk miles, for hours, nightly, to sleep in the safety of groups in community centers to avoid being abducted, raped, killed, or forced into child soldiering by rebels, at dawn returning to their villages). In the IDP camps (for “Internally Displaced Persons”), Ugandans forced north and forever from their homes and families are now dying weekly at the rate of thousands. AIDS rates are soaring, despite government claims to the contrary, and alcoholism and disease have fertilized a new phenomenon that so far has been foreign to the African tradition: suicide. Giovanello asks, with so many people making so much money off the war, who could want to see it come to an end?
Also in this issue, television visionary and “VJ” (Video Journalist) guru Michael Rosenblum tells writer Karin Schwanbeck why he thinks that many traditional two-person TV news crews should be replaced with one-man-band VJs who shoot, report, write, edit, and voice their own stories. In northern Ohio, Allan Detrich of The Toledo Blade found out just how bad it can hurt when a photojournalist comes between Nazi marchers and their protesters. In a public park in Boston, photojournalist John Wilcox of The Boston Herald photographed heroin addicts shooting up, and one overdosed and then died despite the efforts of police and medical personnel who tried to keep the man alive. And from the Best Of Photojournalism 2006 contest committee, member Kenny Irby of The Poynter Institute for Media Studies explains the committee’s changes to the still photography contest’s categories and entry rules. These stories, and much more, in this issue of News Photographer magazine.
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The October issue of News Photographer magazine was a special issue commemorating the photographs of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, 116 pages with more than 70 photographs from newspaper, magazine, and wire service photojournalists who risked everything, many of them after losing their own homes, to cover the story. The cover photograph is by Richard Alan Hannon from The Advocate in Baton Rouge, LA. In the crush outside the Superdome in New Orleans on Thursday, September 1, 2005, a young woman lay dying on the ground. She was one of an estimated 20,000 people, evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, who during the night were walked from the Superdome through the lower level of a hotel and out to buses that were waiting to evacuate them from the flooding city. Hannon could see the scene through a window, but police would not let him go out for fear of what his presence with cameras in the crowd might instigate. So he shot through the glass as a young man cradled the dying girl, tenderly feeling a fading pulse in her neck, holding a crucifix over her, silently praying.
Louisiana State Trooper Jason Martel (standing just outside the frame, to the left) tried to help the girl, first bringing her an orange and then, moments after the picture was taken, picking her up and carrying her away for help – only to have her die moments later in his arms before they could reach a FEMA aid station. Martel told News Photographer, “It was a very difficult day that day between trying to have human dignity and common decency, but to also work so that it stayed safe.” This photograph, and more than 70 others, make up a special issue of News Photographer that you don’t want to miss.
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