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December 2009 Clip Contest Winners

February 3, 2010
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The December 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Alan Berner/The Seattle Times -- Abayneh winces as the prototype arm is placed on his right stump, the end of which is sensitive because nerve endings extend beyond the bone. The artificial arm will leave a gap or bubble at the end to take care of the problem.

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October 2009 Clip Contest Winners

February 3, 2010
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The October 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Andy Sawyer/Yakima Herald-Republic -- Eisenhower's Brooke Brown stretches for a dig during the Cadets' 4A district volleyball match against Walla Walla Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.

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    1st
    “Volleyball dig”
    Andrew Sawyer / Yakima Herald-Republic
    2nd
    “Fumble”
    Meegan Reid / The Kitsap Sun
    3rd
    “Chiawana”
    Richard Dickin / The Tri-City Herald

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September 2009 Clip Contest Winners

February 3, 2010
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The September 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Janet Jensen/The News Tribune -- Erika Napier, 6, attends the Citizenship Day Naturalization Ceremony at Fort Lewis, Friday, September 18, 2009. Maricel Napier, Erika's mother, from the Philippines was among the 31 participants from 23 countries who became U.S. citizens.

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August 2009 Clip Contest Winners

February 3, 2010
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The August 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Kai-Huei Yau/Tri-City Herald -- Mike Iverson of Pasco holds the hand of a trapped 15-year-old girl Tuesday at the scene of a rollover accident on westbound Highway 240 near the Columbia Center Boulevard exit. The girl's aunt, Irene Castro, was driving and was also trapped. Both suffered non-life threatening injuries and were transported to Kadlec Medical Center in Richland. "That's a good example of why you wear your seatbelts," said Washington State Patrol Sgt. Roger Wilbur. Iverson was one of several passersby who stopped when they saw the accident.

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July 2009 Clip Contest Winners

February 3, 2010
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The July 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Anne Raup / Anchorage Daily News -- Subsistence fishermen use dipnets to pull red salmon out of the Kenai River Tuesday July 14, 2009. Dozens of dipnetters found a healthy slug of fish beginning their journey up the river to spawn. In the distance, Redoubt Volcano continues to steam, although the eruption level has been downgraded.

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June 2009 Clip Contest Winners

September 3, 2009
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The June 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Alan Berner/The Seattle Times: Street performer Bruce Holton spends more time and effort moving his piano than playing. The arrow points the way to the Pike Place Market as Bruce Holton moves his 475-pound upright to the elevator for another one-hour gig in front of the original Starbucks.

Alan Berner/The Seattle Times: Street performer Bruce Holton spends more time and effort moving his piano than playing. The arrow points the way to the Pike Place Market as Bruce Holton moves his 475-pound upright to the elevator for another one-hour gig in front of the original Starbucks.

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May 2009 Clip Contest Winners

September 3, 2009
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The May 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Rob Kerr/The Bulletin: Bend High reacts to Lava Bear sophmore Chris Zelmer's walk-off grand slam against Hillsboro in the second round of the Class 5A state baseball playoffs. Bend won 9-8.

Rob Kerr/The Bulletin: Bend High reacts to Lava Bear sophmore Chris Zelmer's walk-off grand slam against Hillsboro in the second round of the Class 5A state baseball playoffs. Bend won 9-8.

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Getty Images’ John Moore to Speak at BVJC

July 9, 2009
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Getty Images’ John Moore to Speak at

Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference July 17-18

June 19, 2009

BELLINGHAM, Wash.  — John Moore of Getty Images, whose gripping photographs of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in late 2007, earned him two first-place World Press Photo awards, will be among the presenters at this year’s Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference.

Moore was the sole American journalist present when Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Earlier this year he was named 2008 “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and was awarded “Photojournalist of the Year” from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).

The conference will take place at Western Washington University on Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.
Moore joins a lineup of presenters that also includes Michel du Cille, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post; Seattle Times photojournalist Alan Berner, NPPA Region 11 2008 Photographer of the Year; Meredith Birkett, senior multimedia editor for special projects at MSNBC.com; and Scott Mc Kiernan, CEO/founder of ZUMA Press and publisher of DOUBLEtruck Magazine and zReportage.com.

Also presenting will be multimedia photojournalist Wes Pope, most recently at The Rocky Mountain News; Heidi de Laubenfels, deputy managing editor for strategy and product development at The Seattle Times; and Jim Seida, senior multimedia producer at msnbc.com.

The conference is co-sponsored by Western Washington University’s Department of Journalism and The Bellingham Herald.
Leaders in the field of visual journalism, including video and still photographers, multimedia producers, agents, and online editors, will share their expertise. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore new avenues for visual storytelling, upgrade their skills, and have their portfolios critiqued by professional visual journalists.

Two concurrent and intensive multimedia workshops, one on producing audio slideshows and the other on shooting video, will be offered Friday, July 17. Cost of each workshop is $100, and space is limited; registration is first-come, first-served.

The conference is offering free registration for Saturday’s speaker series and a catered lunch to all visual journalists who have been laid off from their jobs in the past year. Proceeds from a silent auction of photographic prints will help offset those costs. If you have been laid off and you are coming, please let us know so we can order enough lunch.

      • Both days (workshop and presentations): $150.
      • Professionals for Saturday’s presentations only (includes lunch): $75.
      • Students for Saturday’s presentations only: $50.

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More information: http://www.wwu.edu/visualjournalism/

Contacts:
John Harris, Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference director, (360) 650-6140, john.harris@wwu.edu;
Russ Kendall, BVJC Co-director, (360) 255-1014, russkendall@aol.com,
Marissa Doiron, event coordinator, (360) 650-4436, marissa.doiron@wwu.edu;
Carol Brach, journalism department manager, (360) 650-3252, cbrach@hope.journ.wwu.edu

Russ Kendall, Picture Editor

The Bellingham Herald and TheBellinghamHerald.com

1155 N. State St., Bellingham WA 98225

Voice: (360) 715-2265

Fax: (360) 756-2826

E-mail: russ.kendall@bellinghamherald.com

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Convergence ‘09 Live

June 9, 2009
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The NPPA Convergence in Las Vegas is live.  Check out several features from a constantly updated live blog, flickr account, and periodic live video stream.

Go to live.nppa.org for coverage of the national conference.

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Navigating the Downturn – It’s a wrap and a podcast

May 11, 2009
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Navigating The Downturn: Seattle

Listen to the panelists by clicking on the links below. The three podcasts will be provided over the next week and a half.  Each episode is straight from the workshop with audience participation included and are approximately an hour long.

Podcast Episodes
Introduction
 Part 1

SEATTLE — Region 11 of the National Press Photographers Association hosted “Navigating The Downturn: A Photography Survival Discussion,” on May 9, 2009, in downtown Seattle.

The event organized by past NPPA President, Tony Overman, to help Region 11 members who are feeling the impact of the economic downturn.

“A photojournalist who is out of work feels pretty alone,” NPPA’s vice president Sean D. Elliot, said. “Without the camaraderie of the newsroom we are prone to feeling disconnected. The Internet, a message board, a Webinar, an eMail list, can only help so much. Getting together, 10 or 15 or 30 of us at a time, to hear some advice on building a business plan and to ask questions and to complain and moan if necessary, is a lot more helpful to the individual. The idea is to help build local, grassroots connections.”

From left, freelance photographer Craig Mitchelldyer, former NPPA president Tony Overman, and freelance photographers Rod Mar, Karl Maasdam, and (not pictured) Rich Frishman speak during a NPPA seminar entitled "Surviving the downturn" Saturday May 9, 2009 in Seattle, WA. The speakers discussed changing focus from the newspaper market to the future of freelance photographer, in front of two-dozen photographers.

From left, freelance photographer Craig Mitchelldyer, former NPPA president Tony Overman, and freelance photographers Rod Mar, Karl Maasdam, and (not pictured) Rich Frishman speak during a NPPA seminar entitled "Surviving the downturn" Saturday May 9, 2009 in Seattle, WA. The speakers discussed changing focus from the newspaper market to the future of freelance photographer, in front of two-dozen photographers. (photo courtesy Daniel Berman)

“With the near-collapse of the newspaper industry there is a glut of former newspaper photographers determined to keep doing what they do best,” Overman said, “but they don’t have the training and knowledge of business ownership, proper pricing, negotiating, handling contracts and taxes, and determining the true cost of doing business. An influx of ill-prepared photographers into the freelance market is in no one’s best interest.”

Special thanks go to Navigating the Downturn’s panel, which included Craig Mitchelldyer, an editorial, portrait, and wedding photographer based in Portland, OR, who is a former newspaper staff photographer; Rod Mar, team photographer for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders, a former Seattle Times staff photographer to took a buy-out from the paper; Karl Maasdam, a portrait and wedding photographer who left his job as the chief photographer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times in 2004 to start his own business; and Rich Frishman, an editorial and annual report photographer from Seattle. Overman moderated the panel.

The workshop model set up in Seattle may be part of a larger national NPPA endeavor to host similar workshops in their regions based on a planned program template, of which the Seattle program is the first.

NPPA executive director Jim Straight says a request has been sent out to NPPA volunteers to organize similar programs in their own regions.

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Visual editor Charles Apple has written an excellent blog post about what to do if you’ve lost your job. It’s online here.

Text from this post was modified from the nppa.org site.

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