Quarterly TV Contest 2nd Quarter 2008
September 19, 2008
Filed under TV Results 2008
- Spot News
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- 1st
- Shawn Wilson, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “It Made that Noise”
- 2nd
- Adam Sotelo, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Low Clearance”
- 3rd
- Bill Skok, KIRO/Seattle, WA: “Gator in a Tree”
- HM
- Adam Tischler, KGW/Portland, OR: “Train Derail”
- General News
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- 1st
- Kenneth McCormick, KGW/Portland, OR: “I Love Goodwill”
- 2nd
- Joshua Godfrey, KHQ/Spokane, WA: “Seven Pounds of Cinnamon”
- 3rd
- Adam Sotelo, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Rescue Training”
- HM
- Kurt Austin, KGW/Portland, OR: “Damon’s New Ride”
- 48 Hour Feature
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- 1st
- Shawn Wilson, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “Valet Parking”
- 2nd
- Katie Johnson, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Andre Needs a Kidney”
- 3rd
- Carolyn Hall, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “They’re Like Part of the Family”
- HM
- Zac Gooch, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “The Sidelines”
- In Depth
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- 1st
- Scott Jensen, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “One Road United, Two Towns Divided”
- 2nd
- Scott Jensen, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “James Addiction”
- 3rd
- Douglas Pigsley, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Youth Garden Works”
- HM
- Douglas Pigsley, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “T-Ball Kids”
Quarterly TV Contest 1st Quarter 2008
September 19, 2008
Filed under TV Results 2008
- 48 Hour Feature
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- 1st
- Ryan Coe, KHQ/Spokane, WA: “Cougar Pride”
- 2nd
- Adam Tischler, NWCN/Portland, OR: “Culver Mini Dribblers”
- 3rd
- Bill Goetz, KVAL/Eugene, OR: “Romance Bookstore”
- General News
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- 1st
- Katie Johnson, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Hass House Burn”
- 2nd
- Ryan Coe, KHQ/Spokane, WA: “The Timekeeper”
- 3rd
- Adam Sotelo, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Goners”
- HM
- Shawn Wilson, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “Ready to Fire”
- In Depth
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- 1st
- Scott Jensen, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “Shawn’s Long Wait”
- 2nd
- Adam Sotelo, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Tyson’s Playground”
- 3rd
- Scott Jensen, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “Back Where She Belongs, In the Mountains”
- HM
- Bill Skok, KIRO/Seattle, WA: “Seattle’s Murals of Colors”
- Spot News
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- 1st
- Kenneth McCormick, KGW/Portland, OR: “Smells Like Wet Dog”
- 2nd
- Carolyn Hall, KTUU/Anchorage, AK: “Veteran’s Memorial Vandalized”
- 3rd
- Stephen Ramaley, KOMO/Seattle, WA: “Tree vs. House”
2007 Region 11 Clip Photographers
September 18, 2008
Filed under 2007 Print, Special Features, Top 10
Top Ten List for 2007
| SARA GETTYS
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Sara Gettys is a staff photographer at the Yakima Herald-Republic, where she started working in 2005.
She grew up in Oklahoma and went to Hollins University in Virgina for her undergraduate degree in English and the University of Missouri for her graduate degree in journalism |
| ALAN BERNER
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Alan Berner, a staff photographer at The Seattle Times, believes Robert Frank’s “The Americans” is the most influential work in photography of the past five decades.
He wishes he had the first French edition—and a print, signed. He believes every photographer should have this book on their shelf. Berner has been R-11 POY five times. |
| DAN DELONG
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Dan DeLong has been a staff photographer at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1998. Prior to that, he worked at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa.Dan resides in Seattle with his wife, Vanessa Ho, a reporter at the P-I, and his two daughers, Kalena and Lola. |
FInal 2007 Region 11 Clip Results
1. Janet Jensen, The News Tribune, 584
2. Drew Perine, The News Tribune, 444
3. Danny Gawlowski, The Bellingham Herald, 424
4. Sara Gettys, The Yakima Herald-Republic, 374
5. Bob Hallinen, The Anchorage Daily News, 354
6. Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 324
7. Dan DeLong, The Seattle P-I, 284
8. Andy Rogers, The Seattle P-I, 268
9. Larry Steagall, The Kitsap Sun, 264
10. Kevin Clark, The Register-Guard, 232
For a full list of clip results list click here
NPPA11 POY 2007 speaks at BVJC
September 16, 2008
Filed under Other
NPPA Region 11 Photographer of the Year 2007, Janet Jensen speaks at the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference, July 2008.
(More videos are to come, this was a first run test of playing video in the blog)
McClatchy to make deep cuts in the Northwest
September 13, 2008
Filed under Featured Stories, Regional News
TACOMA, WA (September 9, 2008) – Publishers of The News Tribune in Tacoma, WA, and The Olympian in Olympia, WA, yesterday announced more job cuts in their newsrooms as well as a reduction in the number of hours their remaining employees will work.
Voluntary buy-out deals were offered to 189 of The News Tribune’s 350 full-time workers on Monday, and work-week reductions will be imposed on all hourly workers at the newspaper, which is majority owned by the McClatchy Co.
In the newsroom at The Olympian, 38 buy-out offers were made to the 45 full- and part-time print and online employees, and hourly employees will now work a 37.5 hour workweek. The reduction in newsroom jobs is the second cutback since June. The Olympian is also owned by McClatchy Co.
At both papers the publishers blamed the continued decline in advertising revenue and a worsening economy.
“Unfortunately, despite our progress, the economy continues to worsen and we must reduce expenses further,” Olympian publisher John Winn Miller wrote in an eMail to employees. At Miller’s paper there are also one-year pay freezes.
In Tacoma, publisher David Zeeck told the Associated Press, “The first order of business is any expense reduction that doesn’t involve people.
Companywide McClatchy job reductions in June had already cut 1,400 jobs across the newspaper chain, including 17 at The Olympian and 82 at The News Tribune.
A story in The Olympian today reports that newsroom morale was already low at the time of the announcement of more job cuts because their leader of 10 years, executive editor Vickie Kilgore, is retiring Friday.
The Olympian is making these cutbacks while it’s still profitable, the publisher told employees in his note, but told employees there is “a point at which a business must head off future losses when it sees costs rising and revenue falling.”
McClatchy Co., based in Sacramento, CA, is America’s third largest newspaper chain. It announced in July that its consolidated revenue fell 16.4 percent that month and advertising revenue was down 19.3 percent when compared to the previous year. Their companywide cuts are intended to save McClatchy $100 million a year at 30 newspapers, they say.
– nppa.org
2008 NPPA Flying Short Course ready for Portland
September 13, 2008
Filed under Regional News
NPPA’s 51st annual Flying Short Course is ready to take off in a few weeks with three national stops and a line-up of mini-workshops and speakers who will address topics that are relevant for visual journalists in today’s changing journalism market and climate.
The Flying Short Course will kick off Friday, September 26, at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC.
Saturday’s stop on September 27 is at the University of Texas in Arlington, TX.
Sunday’s final stop, on September 28, is at the University of Oregon in Portland, OR.
The NPPA Flying Short Course is sponsored by Canon and Nikon and the National Press Photographers Association.
Speakers traveling on the national FSC faculty this year include John Harrington, Regina McCombs, David Honl, and Kelly Jordan.
Harrington will talk about the strong business practices visual journalists need to know and practice to succeed in the industry today. The Washington, DC, photojournalists is the author of of the book, “Best Business Practices For Photographers.”
McCombs will talk about how to use multimedia to improve your marketability. Until her recent move to The Poynter Institute, she was the leader of the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s multimedia team where she coordinated audio, slideshow, and video coverage for the newspaper. Before that, she was a photojournalist and producer for KARE-TV in the Twin Cities for more than a decade.
A freelance photojournalist since 1986, Honl will conduct training on how to do location lighting. Covering the world for more than 20 years, early in his career he photographed Prince at Paisley Park, and presidential campaigns, and world news. Honl’s photographs have appeared in Newsweek, People, The New York Times, Washington Post, Paris Match, and many other publications. Early in this decade his work was featured on the Times Square Kodak billboard, and most recently he’s been working in Iraq shooting “Club Baghdad: War Zone Workout” for Newsweek and ZUMA Press.
Jordan will share techniques for producing multimedia. She’s a video producer for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, FL, where she coordinated the photography and video department’s multimedia coverage, shoots and edits her own video stories, and edits the staff’s work. She also produces audio slideshows and coordinates staff training. On the Flying Short Course she’ll also talk about how photojournalists struggle with the demands for content while dealing with limited training, resources, and production time.
Plans also call for each stop to have a local speaker, and the Portland stop plans to also have a second day of regional and local speakers and workshops.
For more information go online to www.flyingshortcourse.org.
– nppa.org
