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| Vin Alabiso,
Vice President and Executive Photo Editor, Associated Press He has overseen AP's global photo operation since 1990 and led the department to eight Pulitzer Prizes in nine years. Before rejoining AP, Alabiso had been Director of Photography for the Boston Globe which, during his tenure, was cited for best use of photography in the national Pictures of the Year competition. Prior to the Globe, he was AP's New England Photo Editor. He began his career as a staff photographer at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA and has also taught photojournalism at Boston University. He received a journalism degree form Northeastern University in Boston. The AP photo staff is comprised of more than 400 photojournalists around the world, providing images to nearly 1,100 newspapers in the U.S. and thousands more abroad. Alabiso directed the important transition to digital photography throughout the wire service and is regarded as a leading authority at seminars, workshops and universities around the globe. Bill Bieger, Imaging Specialist, X-Rite Technologies Bill Bieger will be their representative. He is the OEM Accounts Manager Digital Imaging for the Eastern Region. |
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William M. Boyd II, Leadership & Management Associate,The Poynter Institute,
Bill joined the Institute in 1991. He teaches and consults on leadership, group dynamics, organizational change, and managing technological innovation. He has a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in public administration from the University of California-Berkeley. Bill was Lombard visiting lecturer and research fellow at Harvard University in 1994-1995. Formerly, he was an independent consultant, executive vice president of WICAT Systems, a PBS reporter, and faculty member at Queens College-CUNY. Bill is the author of Thinking Clearly About New Media and "Lead, Follow, and Get Out of the Way" (Nieman Reports). |
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Breslauer, Imaging Consultant, Archives & Images David is an independent photo technology consultant. He primarily helps newspapers and small end users manage digital camera workflow, including digital camera training and integration, production Photoshop training, and color management implementation. He has worked as a Senior Technology Specialist for the Associated Press for five years. Breslauer was also an AP staff photographer for 10 years, and worked for the Houston Chronicle and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He graduated from The University of Texas with a degree in Radio,Television and Film production. Breslauer lives in Park City, Utah with his wife and son. |
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Roy
Peter Clark, Senior Scholar, The Poynter Institute
Roy joined the Institute in 1979 to direct writing programs after teaching English literature, language, and writing at Auburn University from 1974-1977. He has a B.A. from Providence College and his Ph.D. in English from SUNY at Stony Brook. Roy served as dean of the Institute faculty from 1988-1993. He worked at the St. Petersburg Times as a reporter, feature writer, and film critic. He is the author of Free to Write: A Journalist Teaches Young Writers, co-author of Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together, and author of two serial narratives, "Three Little Words" and "Sadie's Ring." He is also editor of the Poynter Papers, former editor of Best Newspaper Writing, and director of the National Writers' Workshops. |
| Bruce Cole,
Director of Photography, Interactive Picture Corp. Bruce has been a professional shooter for thirteen years and an avid participant in the silicon revolution since the days of Photoshop Version 1. In 1996, Mr. Cole became a founding employee of Interactive Pictures Corp. where he leads the creative and technological development of Immersive Photography. An ardent believer in process, his method of working with IPIX images involves all aspects of creation and production, from camera development to editorial assignments. Most currently, his images may be viewed on the Web sites of CNN Interactive, NASA, Travel Channel, Saab, Discovery Online, Kodak, and on The 1999 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM. |
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Jane Conner-ziser,
Imaging Consultant, Salt Lake City An independent consultant for the professional photography industry, Jane has an extensive background in all aspects of studio photography, color lab operations, and fine arts. She is a photographer, a fine artist, a photographic and digital artist, and a frequent teacher and lecturer at professional schools and conventions throughout the United States and abroad. She is one of the most versatile people in the photographic industry. Jane has written for many major industry publications and has created marketing and educational materials for many of our country's most prestigious labs. She designed a software program for production digital retouching for Dicomed Company and has been featured on Kodak's BMP video program "Portraits of Success". Jane is Project Coordinator for Art Leather's innovative Studio 2000 concept (the digital photography studio - digital capture, digital sales and marketing, digital retouching and art - and direct digital output). She is also part of Art Leather's networking team to link with other industry suppliers to help develop full circle digital applications for studios and labs, and producing a series of video tapes on desktop digital arts. |
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John
Curry, Chief Photographer, Athens (GA) Daily News/Banner Herald, John is director of photography at the Athens Daily News and Banner-Herald in Athens, GA. He joined the staff of Athens Newspapers in 1998 after 19 years as a staff photographer at the Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He pioneered the paperÕs use of digital photography and led its transition to the new technology, researching options, presenting recommendations to senior management and training the staff. John began his career while still a high school student, working as a photographer at the Ft. Myers (FL) News-Press. |
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Allan Detrich,
Project Photographer, Block Publications Allan Detrich is a native of Attica, Ohio, where he attended Seneca East High School. While attending the Ohio Institute of Photography in Dayton, Detrich crafted his own work-study program, earning academic credits by working as a photographer for the Kettering-Oakwood Times. He then began working for the Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette while in college. After leaving school, Detrich joined the Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune as chief photographer. From there, Detrich was hired as the sole photographer for the Sunday edition of the Lewiston, Maine, Sun-Journal, where he worked until 1989, when he was honored as New England Photographer of the Year. Detrich then went to work for The Toledo Blade. While at the Blade, Detrich won numerous awards, including the Ohio News Photographers Association Photographer of the Year award four times, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, and the National Press Photographers Association Region 4 Photographer of the Year. He has also won many national awards, including four Clarion awards, National Headliner awards and several National Press Photographers Association Picture of the Year awards. In 1996 Detrich left the Blade to became a project photographer for the Block News Alliance, which serves both The Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette He now researches, develops, shoots and occasionally writes stories for the two newspapers. He is based in Columbus, Ohio and lives with his wife, Dr. Mary Bower, and has two daughters, Alissa, 13 and Katrina, 11. In 1998 Detrich was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature photography for a five part series "Children of the Underground." Which was an in-depth look at a covert underground organization that hides sexually abused children. |
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Andrew
DeVigal,Visiting Professional, The Poynter Institute Andrew DeVigal is a Visiting Professional with the Poynter Institute for 1999, teaching and directing seminars in the area of New Media and Visual Journalism. He is also involved with the Stanford-Poynter Project, a research studying how users read online news using an Eye Tracking System. Formerly he was an interface designer for Knight-Ridder New Media in San Jose, designing many of the early verticals offered by Real Cities, a producer for chicagotribune.com, shaping the look and format of the original Internet version. In his other life, DeVigal was an informational graphic artist for the Chicago Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. DeVigal has also redesigned several online publications including Albany's (NY) The Times Union web site, timesunion.com. His work can also be appreciated from the design of Handelsblatt Interaktiv, Germany's financial daily, which was redesigned by Mario Garcia Media Group. |
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Alan
English, Photo Editor, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Alan English is assistant managing editor/photography at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY. In addition to overseeing their 100% conversion to digital in June 1997, his newsroom leadership includes a list of editorial ventures and a 1998 Best of Gannett supervisor award. Prior, he was photo director at the Fayetteville Observer-Times, NC. In the early 90s, he was photo director at the Westchester Gannett Newspapers in White Plains, NY. He moved into management after working as a staff photographer for newspapers in New Jersey and Tennessee. |
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Ricardo
J. Ferro, Consultant, Florida Fotobanc Inc. Ric was born in Cuba and educated as an engineer. His first contact with photography came in a photo lab in Tampa. Three years later he was a staff photographer at the Tampa Tribune and a picture editor and photographer at the The St. Petersburg Times for 32 years. His photo assignments have included earthquakes, hurricanes, invasion, wars, peace treaties, US presidential conventions, and the Olympics. His photos have received over 115 awards, and he has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize competition by The St. Petersburg Times. He was a member of the faculty of the prestigious National Press Photographer AssociationÕs Flying Short Course, in 1974 and a faculty member at the 1975 University of Missouri Photo Work Shop, held in Nevada, MO. He has been a member of the faculty for workshops at the Western Ky. University, The Mountain Workshops in 1975 and 1998. The Atlanta Seminar in Atlanta, Ga., 1976. The Southern Short Course in Photography in North Carolina,1976. He is invited regularly photo-journalism speaker at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fl. every year since 1985 As a panelist he has lectured for IFRA in London, HPR seminar in Photojournalism in Zurich, for SIP and SND in Guatemala, Mexico and Colombia, and most recently for the Society of InterAmericans Press in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also took part in the first NPPA and The Freedom Forum Photojournalism Seminar in Russia in 1990 and returned in 1991 to lecture in Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest for The Freedom Forum. He owns Florida Fotobanc Inc., a Photo Agency with stock photo service , editorial and corporate photo assignments, and photographic consultant services. His clients include over 42 newspapers in Central and South America. He has designed and written FotoCONTROL a photo organization database for newspapers that manages workflow of the visual report from the assignment, to the digital archive. |
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Gary Fong,
Director of Editorial Graphics Technology, San Francisco Chronicle Gary is currently converting the San Francisco Chronicle from traditional to digital photography, electronic picture editing, color workflow, and wireless communications using Virtual Private Network (VPN). Most recently he developed and implemented the ChronicleÕs photo and graphics digital asset management systems. He has also developed the Photo Sales operation for research and billing of live and archive material to other print, broadcast, and electronic publications. He improvised a disaster recovery plan and organized photo coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta 7.1 Earthquake for publishing the next mornings paper, without electricity, 2-way radios, or telephones. At the Chronicle he has been the Director of Photography and a Staff Photographer. He has taught photojournalism at San Francisco State University and photography at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a staff photographer at The Sacramento Bee and The Sacramento Union newspapers. He has won numerous awards, served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and served as Co-Chairman of the Digital Õ92 Conference in San Francisco, 1992. |
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David
Frank, Director of Picture Desk Technology, New York Times My first job as a photojournalist following college was at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Ms. I was a staff photographer from 1980 to 1982 and then became the director of photography from 1982 to 1983. Having grown up in Kentucky (which most consider the South) and working in Jackson (which I can assure you is definitely the South), I was ready for a new type of adventure. The end result was New York, New York. From 1983 to 1985, I worked for the Associated Press in New York as night monitor and supervisor. In 1985, I moved over to the New York Times. In the 14 years that I have worked at the Times, I have worn a number of hats. They include weekend picture editor (one year), assignment editor (five years) and director of picture desk technology (my current position). I have also been the picture editor on location at the last three Olympics (one summer and two winter) and the last three (1996,1997,1998) Yankees playoffs and World Series runs. IÕve also covered a multitude of other events among them include Presidential political conventions/campaigns, NFL playoffs and super bowls, NCAA Final Four, US Open golf and tennis tournaments, Tony Awards and the Oklahoma City bombing. A 1980 graduate of Western Kentucky University with a BA in Photojournalism. I am married to Marjorie Anders (who has her academic and journalistic roots in Florida) with one daughter, Charlotte, 7. |
| Eileen Ganter,
Senior Producer, Media Via LLC During her 13 years in public radio, Eileen E Ganter produced, directed and hosted a variety of award-winning radio programs, including the nationally syndicated "Music from Interlochen." She also served on the staff of "24 Hours in Cyberspace" as assistant audio director and as an interviewer, editor, and writer. She has been a coach/instructor at NPPA's Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, the Mountain Workshops and the Poynter Institute. She holds a master's degree in radio and television production from the University of Detroit. Eileen loves the outdoors, musicals and the stage. J. Carl Ganter, Senior Producer, Visuals, Media Via LLC J. Carl Ganter is a photojournalist, writer and broadcast reporter. His work has appeared in major magazines, newspapers and on CBS, NBC and NPR. He was audio director, audio technical team leader and an assignment editor for "24 Hours in Cyberspace," and photographed for the "Day in the Life" book projects. With his wife, Eileen, Carl is a founder of MediaVia, a company specializing in journalistic story-telling. He has been a contributing photographer to Contact Press Images since 1982 and has been involved in NPPA's Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, the Mountain Workshop and the Poynter Institute. Carl is an avid skier and outdoorsman. |
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Rob
Galbraith, Freelance Photographer and Author, Little Guy Productions Rob Galbraith is a freelance digital photographer and author based in Calgary, Canada. As a long-time Macintosh user and gadget freak, he quickly became the figure-out-how-all-this-stuff-works guy as a staffer in the Calgary Herald photo department during the newspaperÕs year-long transition to all-NC2000e digital photography in 1994-1995. In July of last year, Rob left the safe cocoon of a salaried position after 9 years with the Herald to form Little Guy Media Inc, a digital photography consulting company. Through Little Guy Media, Rob consults to news organizations on the use of digital cameras, Photoshop and transmitting in photojournalism. He is also the author of The Digital PhotojournalistÕs Guide, a book on the NC2000e, DCS3, DCS 520 and DCS 620 digital cameras as well as the webmaster of DigiNews, a page of regular digital photojournalism updates at . |
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Susan Gilbert,
Director of Photography, Charlotte Observer Susan Gilbert is Director of Photography at the Charlotte Observer, where she leads a staff of 22 photographers, editors and lab technicians. She joined the Observer, the largest newspaper in the Carolinas, in September 1996. The Observer Photo Department was named Staff of the Year in North Carolina for the past two years and won Staff of the Year at the Southern Short Course in Photojournalism for 1998. The Observer won 22 awards for photo and design in SND competition for 1998 and a Gold Medal in 1997 for a Sports photo page on the Junior Olympics. Susan directed coverage of Hurricane Fran, Billy GrahamÕs last Carolinas Crusade and the U.S. Open, among other major news stories. Susan began her career as a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle. She also served as a photographer and photo editor at New York Newsday. She worked as deputy photo director at the Miami Herald, photo team leader at the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis and director of photography at the Denver Rocky Mountain News. |
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Keith
Hitchens, Director of Photography, Ft.Wayne (IN) News Sentinel Keith Hitchens, is the Director of Photographer at the News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN. He has been in photojournalism for 26 years, and has also worked as a photographer for the Muncie IN, Star-Press, and the Binghamton NY, Press &Sun-Bulletin. Keith is a beta tester for PSI software, and a former national NPPA JIB Chairman. |
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Reed Hoffman,
veteran digital photographer, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle A staff photographer for the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle for nearly 20 years, Reed Hoffmann became the lead photographer for the papers total conversion to digital photography in May of 1997. He worked with editors in planning the conversion, and became the staff trainer in teaching how to get the most out of the new camera and implementing new procedures and workflow. His current responsibilities include being the digital troubleshooter, evaluating new hardware and software, and trying to get out on the street as much as possible. He's won Region 2 Photographer of the Year honors twice. Reed Hoffmann's Bio: Graduated University of Evansville (IN) with distinction in 1978, with degrees in Communications and Sociology. Worked at Evansville Sunday Courier and Press part-time, 1976-78. Full time at Birmingham (AL) Post-Herald during 1979. Started at Gannett Rochester Newspapers (Democrat and Chronicle and Times-Union) in Feb. 1980. |
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Julieanne Kost,
Photoshop Evangelist, Adobe Systems Julieanne Kost has been with Adobe Systems since 1993. She is the Graphic Arts Evangelist committed to educating and delivering Adobe's Professional Publishing Solutions to graphic designers, photographers, educators and fine artists. She is a master of both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and has used them extensively in graphic design, print and photography as well as cross media for online and multimedia productions. Prior to this position she was a Senior Instructional Designer in the Market Education Department at Adobe where she developed content for the "Classroom in a Book" series, the user guides, on-line tutorials, and printed tours across Adobe's product line. Her most recent projects included the Photoshop 5.0 and ImageReady 1.0 manuals as well as Photoshop 4.0 Classroom in a Book. Julieanne is a passionate photographer and has had several shows as well as many of her images published in books such as "Photoshop - Beyond the Basics", "Design Essentials" and "Imaging Essentials". She frequently lectures and teaches courses in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and ImageReady across the United States including, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the HOW Design Conference and the Palm Beach Photographic Workshops. |
| Russell Leseburg,
Quality Manager for Thomson Newspapers & President of Avail Technologies Russell owns a consulting company that specializes in publishing technologies. He splits his time between Thomson Newspapers as their quality manager and his other clients. He is chairperson for the implementation group of The NAA Newspaper Quality Reproduction Task Force. |
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Jerry
Lower, Director of Photography, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel While Jerry Lower has only been the Director of Photography at the Sun-Sentinel since June. In the past 12 years, he has worked as a photo editor, designer, pagination coordinator and systems trainer here for the last 12 years. Before the Sun-Sentinel, Jerry shot and edited at, The Urbana Courier, The Southern Illinoisan, and the Boca Raton News. Jerry admits he has a lot to learn about the potential of the web. |
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Simma Lieberman,
Lieberman Associates Simma Lieberman works with organizations to create environments where people can do their best work and enjoy it. Her processes include training, consulting, speaking and coaching. She specializes in the areas of diversity, gender communications and life-work balance. Simma coaches managers and supervisors to be team leaders instead of task masters. After completing training as a facilitator in New York City over 20 years ago, Simma Lieberman was hired to create working relationships amongst diverse racial and ethnic groups in and around New York. Today, along with a multi-cultural team, she assists her clients in providing environments that promote mutual respect, cooperation, and productivity among people, while respecting, valuing and utilizing differences. Her programs have helped people enhance productivity, improve communication, decrease burnout and get more enjoyment from their work and life. Her clients include: McDonalds, The Sacramento Bee, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, AT&T, Northern Telecom, California Dept. of Corrections, Chevron, Pillsbury, Bonneville Power Administration, Motorola, California League of Cities, Applied Materials, General Electric, and Indian Health Services. |
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Rick McKay,
Illustrations Editor/Photographer, Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau Rick photographs Washington area people and events, handles special requests for photo coverage from individual newspapers, processes and edits film from the Cox Newspapers foreign staff. He began his career as a staff photographer at the Hillsdale (Mich.) Daily News after graduating in 1976, moved to the Battle Creek Enquirer and News in 1977 and became chief photographer in 1980. He transferred to USA Today in 1983 as A-section photo editor and also photographed sports. In June of 1984, he joined the national staff of the Cox Washington Bureau becoming the first photographer on the staff. Besides his Washington work, he has photographed special projects around the country and abroad. Education: Central Michigan University, B.A. in Journalism, 1976. Personal: Born in Detroit, Michigan. Married to Carol McKay, a photo editor at U.S. News and World Report. They have a daughter, Ally, born in 1991, and a son, Nicholas, born in 1993. |
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Keith Meyers,
Photographer, New York Times Keith Meyers, on staff at the New York Times for 20 years, is a general assignment photographer who is assisting Technical Photo Editor David Frank in the development of a workflow for digital images and training photographers during the digital transition at the paper. Keith, who was named a Senior Photographer for both his photography and reporting skills, has developed several unusual photo specialties. As an active Òroad warriorÓ he pioneered the use of the digital camera at the paper while working as a national photo correspondent in the northeast US, is a licensed Captain who covered the waterfront in New York Harbor from his own boat, and is an accomplished underwater and aerial photographer who has worked extensively with the Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force and NASA. He also has worked as a fill in National Editor. From 1974 to 1980 he worked as a freelance photojournalist covering the Middle Atlantic States for the Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, Business Week and many other publications.From 1969 until 1974 he worked for seven small to medium size newspapers in Maryland and Delaware as a reporter, photographer and editor. He presently lives in Glen Ridge, NJ. |
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John G. Morris,
A veteran of the business (LIFE in the early days, Magnum, Washington Post, New York Times, National Geographic) John G. Morris is known in the media as the Picture Person, the man who has worked with the century's greatest photojournalists. From World War II to the Vietnam and Gulf wars, his job was to choose the pictures that tell the story of our times. A political science graduate of the University of Chicago, Morris began his career on the weekly LIFE, rising rapidly from office boy to Hollywood correspondent to Picture Editor in London and Paris. He later became the Picture Editor for Ladies' Home Journal in its great days, for the international agency Magnum Photos, for The Washington Post and The New York Times. Appointed Paris correspondent of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC in 1983, he has now published his memoirs: Get The Picture, A Personal History of Photojournalism, winner of this year's Infinity Award (for writing on photography) of the International Center of Photography. He has appeared on Sixty Minutes, on C-Span's Booknotes and has spoken from coast to coast. |
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Monica Moses,
Visual Journalism Associate, The Poynter Institute Monica Moses joined The Poynter Institute visual journalism faculty in 1999. Before coming to Poynter, she worked for 15 years at newspapers and magazines, 10 years as a visual leader. In cultural change work at The Charlotte Observer, Monica and her visual colleagues took on the task of making a traditional editor's paper visually coherent and powerful. Teamwork, skill-building and cross-discipline alliances transformed The Observer in the space of a couple of years, and the newspaper's newfound strengths in art direction, photography and design have won many awards and admirers. In her sessions, Monica pushes participants to approach their work with an editor's critical thinking skills and an artist's sense of wonder. Monica speaks not only with authority but also with heart and humor. She argues that the best creative work flows not only from confidence but also from compassion and supportive relationships. Monica has worked as a copy editor, page designer, assistant features editor, design director and assistant managing editor/visuals. She has a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in visual communication. She has won more than 30 Society for News Design awards, including multiple Gold and Silver medals. Her work has also been recognized by Print magazine, the Associated Press and several other press organizations. |
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Dave Pierson,
Photo Technology Manager, St. Petersburg Times Dave Pierson is the photo technology manager of the St. Petersburg Times. He oversees the operation of all computer systems used by the Times photo staff including digital cameras, remote transmitting, and photo editing/archive systems. Dave also manages the photo technicians, the reprint service, and the continuing education training seminars. For the past 6 years Dave has moved the St. Petersburg Times from the analog age into the digital age. For over 25 years Dave has always been part of the News Photo Department and has held positions that include: staff photographer, chief photographer, assistant photo editor and deputy photo editor. Current projects include managing of two new AP Preserver systems, the expanded use of digital cameras and publishing IPX and QTVR 360 degree photos on the Times web site. |
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Ron Reason,
Assistant Managing Editor for Design and Photography at the Chicago Sun-Times
(former Visual Journalism Director, The Poynter Institute) Ron Reason has been Director of Visual Journalism programs at the Poynter Institute since 1995, leading and teaching in seminars in newspaper design, art direction, graphics, type and web design. In October he will return to his Midwest roots as he takes on a new challenge as Assistant Managing Editor for Design and Photography at the Chicago Sun-Times (whose redesign he has been directing for a launch next winter). Ron has redesigned a number of newspapers including the Boston Herald and is "in progress" with redesigns including the Orlando Sentinel and The Dallas Morning News. He also has conducted staff training programs in visual journalism and creativity for papers including the Baltimore Sun and Wisconsin State Journal, and has served as a management consultant to papers including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the largest newspapers in both Brazil (Folha de S. Paulo) and Denmark (Jyllands-Posten). Before joining Poynter, Ron worked for the St. Petersburg Times for a decade, including five years as page one design editor and two years as design director. Ron has taught journalism at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and has taught typography and advanced graphic design studio courses at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota. He is a 1985 journalism graduate of Indiana University. |
| Michael Quan,
QuantumVR.com, Boston Michael Quan is a Boston-based freelance photographer/editor and principal of QuantumVR.com, http://www.quantumvr.com a company that produces interactive Quicktime VR content for websites. A recently completed virtual tour of Harvard University, complete with some 80 interactive "nodes" is the latest project for QuantumVR.com http://www.news.harvard.edu/tour/ A confirmed convert to the magic of interactive imaging on the Internet, Quan has been exploring methods for presenting interactive visual "experiences" for news website audiences. Quan photographs the Good, the Bad, and the really Ugly for The Boston Globe and The New York Times. |
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David
Snider, Executive Producer, The Digital Journalist web site David Snider is a freelance photographer and videojournalist based in Washington, DC. He recently produced a double-episode of ABC News NIGHTLINE about a survivor of the Nairobi Embassy bombing. He is the Executive Producer of The Digital Journalist website which is published by Dirck Halstead. Along with Halstead, he is on the faculty of the Platypus Workshops, which teaches still photojournalists how to become video storytellers. |
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Brian Storm,
Senior Producer, Multimedia, MSNBC Interactive Brian Storm received his masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and now works as Senior Producer of Multimedia for MSNBC.com. MSNBC, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC News, is a 24-hour cable and Internet news service. Storm began working at Microsoft as a picture editor for MSN News in July of 1995 and is now responsible for the audio, video and photography on the MSNBC web site based in Redmond, WA. While at Missouri Storm ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism, created Sight Photography (http://sightphoto.com), and produced CD-ROMs for Pictures of the Year and the Missouri Photo Workshop. Storm has presented ideas about the impact of new technology on journalism at dozens of conferences including the NPPA Annual Convention, Pictures of the Year, The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, The Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, and The Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop. |
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Lou
Tolman, Photographer, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel I started working at the Ft. Lauderdale News in 1957. It was a summer job while I was attending the University of Florida a journalism student. When it was time to return to college I was offered a full time job as a staff photographer. I took the job and I am still here. I was given a 4x5 Speed Graphic but went to a Rollie 120 camera, then, a couple years later, to a 35 mm Nikon rangefinder. I was the Chief Photographer for about 6 years in the 80's but preferred being out in the field. I now shoot with video camera (after training at the University of Oklahoma) for our internet edition and a digital camera. |
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Al Tompkins,
Leadership & Management Associate, The Poynter Institute Al Tompkins-specializes in teaching newsroom leadership, producing, reporting, writing and ethics at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Al has won many of journalism's top prizes in his 25 years as a journalist. Among the awards on his wall; The National Emmy, The Peabody Award, the Japan Prize, 7 National Headliner Awards, two Iris Awards and the Robert F Kennedy Award for international reporting. Al has worked as a photojournalist, reporter, producer, anchor, assistant news director, special projects/investigations director, documentary producer and news director. In 1998, Al co-produced a special hour-long Dateline NBC program "Saving Stefani." The 10-year documentary project told the story of a young girl that Al and a medical team found dying in a Guatemala hospital. In the last month, this project just won the national Clarion Award. Al is married to a psychotherapist (which has been key to his surviving in TV journalism.) He has three adopted children, one from Guatemala, one from China and one from Vietnam. In 1999, Al has presented his popular "One Day Producer's Workshop" to audiences in 6 states. Al also co-authored and teaches the RTNDF ethics workshops being presented in 16 U.S, cities in 1999 and 2000. He has been a frequent interviewee and author for NPR's All Things Considered, Broadcasting and Cable Magazine, Communicator magazine and Columbia Journalism Review. |
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Tracey
Trumbull, Multimedia Producer, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Tracey Trumbull has been a multi-media producer at the Sun-Sentinel for a three years, and also worked as the assistant director of photography here. He has been the Deputy Director of Photography at Knight Ridder Tribune. and was the Director of Photography at Boca Raton News during the 25-43 project. Tracey says likes cool technostuff and can't go a day without touching a MAC. |
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Chuck
Wing, Photojournalist, The Deseret News of Salt Lake City Chuck Wing, 32, Staff photographer at the Deseret News for 3 years. Chief photographer for the Santa Fe New Mexican for 2 1/2 years before and staff photographer at the Ogden Standard-Examiner for 2 years. Graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1992. Married to Julie Parker-Wing for 5 years. She's a R.N. at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Enjoy biking, hiking and landscape work. |