We’re excited to finally announce that speakers are set for the ONPA 75th Convention, June 19-21, 2026!
The DEADLINE to reserve your room at The Ohioan Hotel and Event Center – formerly the Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center – is WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. Please book directly with the hotel by calling 614-880-4300.
Use our group code: 2606ONPAJ
Joining us will be:
Dale Omori, a two-time ONPA Photographer of the Year, who will talk about his 30-year career working in the newspaper industry as well as his transition to video storytelling and film making while running his own media company before retiring.
Amy Sancetta will talk about her 30-year career as a staff photographer for the Associated Press covering sports and news around the world as the organization’s U.S. National Photographer as well as stints in the Philadelphia and Cleveland bureaus.
She won the Pulitzer Prize in feature photography in 1992, and was named the Associated Press top sports photographer worldwide in 1993.
Amy graduated from Ohio State with a B.A. in History in 1981. While at Ohio State, she connected with Columbus AP Photo staffers Harry Cabluck, and then Brian Horton. Both were amazing teachers and mentors. The two men shepherded her love of photography, freeing her up to follow her passions for History and English in her college studies.
Upon graduation, she was the summer intern at the Mansfield News Journal, and then worked for two years as a staff photographer with the Columbus Dispatch before beginning her career at the AP in 1983. Amy has traveled the world covering 11 Olympic Games, numerous Super Bowls, World Series, Masters, Kentucky Derbies, U.S Open Tennis tournaments, NBA and NHL Finals and the FIFA World Cup. She has covered the Academy Awards, the Emmys, the Sundance Film Festival, national political conventions and presidential inaugurations, as well as the 9/11 attacks in NYC, the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and numerous hurricanes across the east coast.
She has enjoyed teaching stints at Penn State, West Virginia University, and the Rich Clarkson Workshops.
Amy has found additional fulfillment over the years volunteering for various animal welfare organizations in her community. She is married to her partner of 36 years, nationally syndicated cartoonist Jenny Campbell, and the couple live in the house where Amy grew up with their rescues - dogs Tanner and Grayson and cat Rizz.
And finally, Katie Rausch, the assistant managing editor of photography and video at the Minnesota Star Tribune. The paper just won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its comprehensive, compassionate coverage of the Aug. 27, 2025, mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.
Previously, Katie served as the deputy director of photography at The Denver Post, and as a staff visual journalist with The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, and the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, Mich.
She is also a former ONPA Board of Trustees officer, having served as still vice president while at The Blade in 2017.
Please register now!
You don’t want to miss the speakers and reconnect with old friends during the 75th anniversary celebration! Registration is only $25.00. We are bringing back the hospitality suite on both Friday and Saturday night and the awards dinner on Saturday evening.
Please bring your friends and bring your stories and celebrate our rich history of the Ohio News Photographers Association!