PHOTON 36
Michael Mally
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NORTHERN SHORT COURSE
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Reed Hoffmann <Reed...@AOL.COM> reports that the 1995 Northern Short Course in
Photojournalism will held March 16th, 17th & 18th at the Omni Biltmore Hotel in
Providence, Rhode Island.
Speakers and team leaders include: Bill Ostendorf, Director of Photography for
The Providence Journal, Bob Lynn, AME/Graphics at The Virginian-Pilot Karl
Kuntz, ME/Graphics at The Columbus Dispatch, Ken Spencer of Newsday will start
J. Kyle Keener, staff photographer for Detroit Free Press Magazine, Dan Habib,
Michelle McDonald, Michelle McNally, Michael DuCille of The Washington Post;
Gary Haynes former AME/Photography & Graphics of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tom
Gralish of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ron Cortes of The Philadelphia Inquirer;
Joe Marquette of The Associated Press, Gene Roberts of The New York Times, Gary
Settle of The Seattle Times; Suzanne Kreiter of The Boston Globe, Isadore
Bleckman of CBS-TV, Mickey Osterreicher and Stephen Boyd, a
photographer/reporter team from WKBW-TV/Buffalo, Mike Fisher of
WFSB-TV/Hartford & Tom Fletcher,.
To register: call, fax or write:
Ken Bizzigotti
NSC Registration Chairman
198 Rochdale Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
(914) 473-4113
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1995 SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE
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The 46th Southern Short Course in News Photography, a three-day photojournalism
conference featuring speakers, workshops, trade show, portfolio critiques, and
aslide competition with categories similar to that of NPPA's POY, will be held
this year Friday April 28 through Sunday April 30, 1995 at the Radisson Hotel
in Asheville, NC.
For more information call Mark Dolejs, Director at (919)419-6677.
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DIGITAL 95 ON THE WEB
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Reports of NPPA's Digital '95 Imaging Conference is available on the World
Wide. Kurt Foss of the University of Wisconsin <kf...@doit.wisc.edu> lead a
team of student journalists from the University of North Carolina, San
Francisco State University, and San Jose State University in live coverage on
the World Wide Web. To see the hit the "Digital '95" icon on the NPPA home
page <http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa>.
In addition to session coverage , there are inteverviews with seakers, and
digital images from the Canon/Kodak EOS DCS-3.
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WINNERS OF THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL PICTURES OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
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Brian Storm <st...@SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU> reported to NPPA-L the results of the
52nd POY contest in a message called "52nd Annual Pictures of the Year Winners"
(or as it appeared in my subject field "52nd Annual Pictures of t") it's a long
file so the result are only abstract here.
The contest was judged February 21 through March 2 at the University of
Missouri-Columbia. It is ponsored by the National Press Photographers
Association, The University of Missouri School of Journalism, with grants from:
Canon U.S.A. Inc., and Professional Printing & Publishing Imaging, Eastman
Kodak Company
Newspaper Photographer of the Year
Michael Williamson, First Place, The Washington Post
Magazine Photographer of the Year
James Nachtwey, First Place, TIME Magazine/Magnum Photos, Inc.
Canon Photo Essayist Award
Gideon Mendel, First Place, Network Photographers (London), "De Aar Duststorm"
Kodak Crystal Eagle Award
Flip Schulke, First Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, "Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the Southern Civil Rights Movement"
Overall Excellence in Editing Award for Newspapers
Detroit Free Press
Newspaper Spot News
David C. Turnley, First Place, Detroit Free Press, "Rwanda"
Newspaper General News
Corinne Dufka, First Place, Reuters, "Determination"
Newspaper Feature Picture
Peter Harris, First Place, The Washington Times, "Goma Landscape"
Newspaper Sports Action
Jerry Wolford, First Place, Greensboro News & Record (Greensboro, NC), "Hair
Header"
Newspaper Sports Feature
Rich Addicks, First Place, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, "Down"
Newspaper Portrait/Personality
Peter Harris, First Place, The Washington Post, "Angel of Mercy"
Newspaper Pictorial
Andy Nelson, First Place, The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), "Mobile Home"
Newspaper Product Illustration
Kenneth D. Lyons, First Place, The Daily Press (Newport News, VA), "Melancholy
Melons"
Newspaper Issue Illustration
Robert A. Sabo, First Place, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, "America's Getting
Fatter"
Newspaper News Picture Story
Carol Guzy, First Place, The Washington Post, "The Transition of Power"
Newspaper Feature Picture Story
Pauline Lubens, First Place, Detroit Free Press, "The Ghosts of Belarus"
Newspaper Sports Portfolio
Tim Broekema, First Place, Chicago Tribune
Newspaper One Week's Work
Richard Koci Hernandez, First Place, San Jose Mercury News
Magazine News Picture
Albert Facelly, First Place, SIPA/Newsweek, "Weapons, Boots, Sleeper"
Magazine Feature Picture
Gideon Mendel, First Place, Network Photographers/Christian Aid, "African Story
Teller"
Magazine Sports Picture
Eric Mencher, First Place, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, "Figure and Form"
Magazine Portrait/Personality
Anthony Suau, First Place, TIME Magazine, "Rwandan Mother and Child"
Magazine Pictorial
Jose Azel, First Place, Freelance/National Geographic Magazine, "Rebuilding
Blocks"
Magazine Science/Natural History
Jeffrey Rotman, First Place, Freelance, "Bottlenose Dolphin & Swimmer/Red Sea"
Magazine Picture Story
Lynn Johnson, First Place, LIFE Magazine, "The Reincarnation of Ling"
Single Page News Story/Newspaper
Murray Koodish, First Place, San Jose Mercury News, "Assassination in Mexico"
Single Page Feature Story/Newspaper
Stephanie Heisler, First Place, The Hartford Courant, "A Spiritual Life"
Multiple Page News Story/Newspaper
Marilyn Odello, John Gryka and Amy Pabalan, First Place, The Press-Enterprise
(Riverside, CA), "Muhammad Shot at UCR"
Multiple Page News Story/Magazine
Robert Stevens, First Place, TIME Magazine, "Walking a Thin Line"
Multiple Page Feature Story/Newspaper
Gail Fisher, First Place, Los Angeles Times "Season of Hope"
Multiple Page Feature Story/Magazine
David L. Arnold, First Place, National Geographic Magazine, "Viruses: On the
Edge of Life/On the Edge of Death"
Newspaper Series
Steve Rice, Dennis Copeland, Roman Lyskowski, Shelley Bowen, Jose Iglesias and
Winston Townsend, First Place, The Miami Herald, "Let Us Live in Peace"
Newspaper Special Section
John Davidson, Ed Kohorst and David Leeson, First Place, The Dallas Morning
News, "Angola"
Best Use of Photographs/Newspapers: Circulation of under 25,000
First Place, Journal Tribune (Biddeford, ME)
Best Use of Photographs/Newspapers: Circulation of 25,000 to 150,000
First Place, The Spokesman-Review
Best Use of Photographs/Newspapers: Circulation of more than 150,000
First Place, The Orange County Register
Best Use of Photographs/Magazine
W. Allan Royce, First Place, National Geographic Magazine
Newspaper Picture Editing Award/Individual Portfolio
Mark Edelson, First Place, The Palm Beach Post
Newspaper-produced Magazine Picture Editing Award
Bert Fox, First Place, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
Magazine Picture Editing Award
Robert Stevens, First Place, TIME Magazine
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NATIONAL PRESS CLUB RESEARCH LIST
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Kris Herbst <glo...@CLARK.NET> wrote NPPA-L on 2.16.95 to announce a Web home
page for the National Press Club in Washington, DC
<http://town.hall.org/places/npc/>
Krist also sent the Press Club's list of electronic reseaarch sites. It's a
long list so it is printed here in sections. The list last week in PHOTON 34
covered: "Resources For and By Journalists"; "Sites of Individual
Organizations"; "Reference Sources"; & "Other sources not on the Net." This
week's list includes: "Government and Financial Information"; "Sources of Hot
News"; & "Search the Internet."
Government and Financial Information:
http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Government/Countries/
International
U.S. Federal Government
List One:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html"
List Two:
http://fedix.fie.com/www/us_gov.htm
http://www.whitehouse.gov
White House
http://policy.net/capweb/Senate/Senate.html
Senate
http://www.house.gov/
House of Representatives
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Library of Congress including
Thomas
http://thomas.loc.gov
http://policy.net/capweb/congress.html
CapWeb Guide to the U.S. Congress
telnet://128.206.1.3
Federal Register, Congressional Record, USC
For full text search, login as "guest" and select 5,2,4,1
gopher://gopher.legislate.com:70/1
Legi-slate gopher
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/supct.table.html
Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
http://town.hall.org/edgar/edgar.html
SEC EDGAR Database
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/dosfan.html
State Dept. daily briefings: Go to DOSFAN gopher and select Public Affairs
http://www.undcp.or.at/unlinks.html
United Nations
http://www.worldbank.org
World Bank
Sources of Hot News:
http://www.nando.net/prof/poynter/hrintro.html
Research sources for the week's top news stories (Poynter Instit.)
http://bell.com/
Drafts of telecommunications regulation bills (Alliance for Competitive
Communications)
http://www.wentworth.com/cyber/pr.html
Public relations links
Search the Internet:
http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
Lycos WWW search engine
http://webcrawler.cs.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html
WebCrawler</b></A><br>
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html
WWW Worm
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/w3catalog
CUI World Wide Web Catalog
http://www.rns.com/cgi-bin/nikos
NIKOS
http://www.netgen.com/cgi/wandex
WWW Wanderer Index
http://www.town.hall.org/brokers/www-home-pages/query.html
Harvest Broker
http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/jsii?jsii_doc_search
JumpStation
gopher://futique.scs.unr.edu:8112/1
Veronica search of Gophers
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3002/7
Jughead search of Gophers
http://server.wais.com/waisgate-announce.html
WAIS-to-Web gateway
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Doc/archieplex.html
ArchiePlex Archie gateway
http://woodstock.stanford.edu:2000/
Stanford Netnews Filtering Service
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MICHAEL SCHWARZ ANNOUNCES HOME PAGE
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Michael Schwarz <atlp...@mindspring.com> reports: "I'm pleased to announce
that my Web is now available for public perusal.
"Direct your Web browser to the URL
<http://www.mindspring.com/~atlphoto/schwarz.html> and say hello to the
homepage of the Schwarz Illustrated Photojournalism Site, a six-page Web
featuring three pages of photo essays, one page of cool links, a
biographical page and a homepage. Of note is that the photo essay, "The
Murphy Family", which is a long-term documentary of a unique family, will
not be removed but will be perpetually updated, allowing viewers to track
the growth and progress of this family as they age."
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L.A. COUNTY WANTS TO CHARGE MEDIA COVERING SIMPSON TRIAL
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Martin Casey the editor of PressLink's MEDIA EXPRESS <PLN...@PLINK.GEIS.COM>
reported 3.2.95:
"Facing a bill for the O.J. Simpson murder trial already estimated at $2.4
million, Los Angeles County's board of supervisors is asking Judge Lance Ito
to charge the news media for costs associated with providing TV coverage of
the trial, Reuters News Service reports."
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PHOTON EXPRESS:
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This is a weekly electronic newsletter edited by Michael
Mally. Opinions are those of the editor, unless otherwise noted. Copyright
1995 NPPA. Reproduction, with attribution, is encouraged.
PHOTON EXPRESS is currently available on the National Press Photographers
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