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The Unguarded Moment, an exhibit by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, is being held at the Joseph Saxton Gallery of Photography in Canton, Feb 5 to April 2.McCurry will participate in three events this Thursday, Feb 19 in conjunction with the exhibit.The...

Todd Heisler's appearance at Ohio University Thursday, Feb 11 has been cancelled due to the weather. Flights from the New York area have been cancelled as yet another winter storm takes its toll on the northeast. The program is expected to be rescheduled.

Todd Heisler, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, will present his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, February 11, 2010 on the campus of Ohio University in Walter Hall, Room 145. Heisler will talk about his career, latest assignments and his on-going project for The New...

Former ONPA member Michael King is a candidate for NPPA's Board of Directors. That news is not surprising at all to me. King joined ONPA and NPPA as a high school student and was always one to be involved. I'm all for helping him climb the ladder. His plea for your...

Columbus Dispatch photographer Courtney Hergesheimer is asking for help in keeping an eye out for some recently stolen equipment. Hergesheimer was broken into on Sunday night, the 6th, and reports that the thieves got away with pretty much everything electronic,...

The Ohio SPJ awards for 2009 have been announced. The joint recognition competition is managed by the Central Ohio (Columbus), Cincinnati, and Cleveland pro chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and honors the best of Ohio's print, broadcast, online,...

Bill Lackey's feature photo from the Clark County Fair has been chosen by Associated Press editors as the National Members Showcase Photo of the Month for July. Looks like he's got a good start on tackling photos which will come in real handy as another season of high...

Photos of the week galleries now appear on a many news sites on the Web, but ten years ago it was MSNBC who made the Week in Pictures a popular link to click. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyThe concept was the brainchild of...

The dogs days of summer seemed to have finally arrived, coincidently about the same time Tiger Woods and the rest of the golfers descended upon Northeast Ohio last week. Hard to adjust to that kind of heat and humidity with a 400mm lens on your shoulder.We've been out...

New Vision Television operators of Youngstown television stations WKBN/WYFX/WYTV have filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A story by Andrea Wood of the Youngstown Business Journal reports that employees of the affected stations learned of the news from a...

Former ONPA member Michael P. King received a screening copy of An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story and gives it 4 1/2 stars. His full review is available online. King's only negative on the documentary is its limited release with no dates in his hometown Green...

Lima Company: A Portrait of Service, a story by photographer Jeff Ritter from WBNS-TV in Columbus, has won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for videography in the Large Market Television division. The Edward R. Murrow Awards are presented by the Radio-Television News...

Bill Lackey of the Springfield News-Sun has won the National Associated Press Member Showcase Photo of the Month for May. The photo, which moved on the wire May 25 shows the driver a car looking out from her vehicle which flipped over after striking a tree.Of course...

Plain Dealer photographer Gus Chan was named Best in Ohio in the 31st Annual Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards present by the Press Club of Cleveland. His co-worker Lisa DeJong placed 2nd - in the competition.The awards to honor Ohio's best newspapers, magazines,...

The downturn in revenue which has let to cuts at many daily newspapers has now appeared to take its toll on two major weekly chains in Ohio.In the Cleveland/Akron market Sun Newspapers said Friday it will eliminate half of its 22 editions and cut staffing. A Sun...

The National Press Photographers Association will be presenting it's honors and recognition awards Saturday night in Las Vegas as it winds up Convergence '09. I find myself on the list of recipients this year being presented the Morris Berman Citation. The Berman...

The Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters presented their annual award this past weekend in Columbus.Tom Nartker, WLIO-TV, Lima, Eric Frisbee, WHIO-TV, Dayton, and Anthony Mirones, WCPO-TV, Cincinnati were recognized as Best Photographers in their respective small,...

Yes those Cleveland Cavaliers are sitting at home watching the NBA finals but, sports will still take center stage in Ohio this weekend anyway.The OHSAA will be hosting state tournaments in softball, baseball and track. The state baseball finals move from Cooper...

Cleveland-based editorial and fine art photographer Greg Ruffing was one of 25 photographers from across the country, represented by Redux Pictures, who contributed to "American Youth", a 240-page book that looks at the lives of the newest generation of 18 - 24  year...

Former Akron Beacon Journal photographer Ott Gangl reminds us all of how the unexpected can happen, especially when photographing sports.Gangl was covering the Cavs - Bulls playoff game when Michael Jordan hit the shot that Cleveland Cavaliers fans and basketball...

With apologies to Gary Harwood I'm tired of seeing him taking Michael Jordan's picture after "the shot"  at the Coliseum in Richfield. Of course as a  Cleveland sports fan the scene is burned into my brain after all these years. Perhaps "The Chosen One" has now eased...

Even the headline on the New York Times' Lens blog pokes a little fun at the situation. Behind the Scenes: Man in the Pink Boxers. Its worth a click, not often we get humor from the front lines of the battle field. The  humor supplied from the lens of AP...

Newspaper Guild covered employees at the The Plain Dealer have ratified an agreement that calls for economic concessions as a way to stave off further staff reductions. The one-year agreement calls for a an 8.1% pay reductions as well as 11 days of unpaid furlough....

A week away from home, work and newspapers is gone in a flash. Having been forced to take two unpaid weeks off this year working at a Gannett property Matt Detrich asked me what kind of vacation I was on. My reply - the old fashion kind - paid. We haven't gotten to...

Another newspaper has jumped on the bandwagon of dropping an edition to lower costs. This time it's here in Ohio where the The Portsmouth Daily Times is will no longer print a Monday edition of the newspaper as of May 11.Full story

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John Filo and his subject, Mary Vecchio, were reunited Monday at Kent State University during the annual May 4 commemoration on campus. The reunion was only the third time they have been together since the Pulitzer image was made,...

Lisa DeJong of The Plain Dealer, William D. Lewis of The (Youngstown) Vindicator, Abigail Bobrow of the Sandusky Register, Sarah Wright of the Chillicothe Gazette and Mike Ullery of the Piqua Daily Call were named Best Photographers in the state Sunday in the annual...

Much has been made about the first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency and the White House photo staff has now jumped in as well. White House photographer Pete Souza has unvelied a group of behind-the-scene images from the first 100 days on Flickr. Access is a...

The "King of Spot News" has once again showed his Mutual of Omaha side as Marshall Gorby of the Springfield New-Sun turns his camera from flames to feathers. Gorby's photo of a goose knocking on the door of a local business is one of the finalists for MSNBC's The Week...

ONPA Student Photographer of the Year Diego James Robles wanted to improve his sports shooting skills and has learned some valuable lessons to do so at Sports Shooter Academy IV. Robles, a student at Ohio University, took advantage of free tuition grant from Nikon to...

National Geographic photographer, Sam Abell will present his work, featuring images from his new book, "The Life of a Photograph," at the Akron Art Museum on Sunday, May 3 from 3 - 5 pm.The presentation is open to the public and is hosted by the Cuyahoga Valley...

The Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism were announced this afternoon. Patrick Farrell from The Miami Herald was the winner in Breaking News Photography for his photographs of Hurricane Ike's devastation in Haiti. Damon Winter from the New York Times was the winner in...

Former ONPA member Curt Chandler, who is now teaching multimedia reporting at Penn State University, shares news of the upcoming Keystone Multimedia Workshop to be held June 4 - 7 at State College, PA.Participants can choose a track that focuses on producing daily...

Once again Associated Press photographer Tony Dejak has found a worthy subject by directing a camera towards a news gatherer as opposed to a newsmaker. This time around his victim was Plain Dealer photographer Marvin Fong who was juggling a cell phone, an umbrella and...

Judging in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism picture editing categories at the Ohio University School of Visual Communication (VisCOm) has been completed and the winners have been announced.The Plain Dealer had two wins in the Newspaper Special Section or Reprint...

If you thought huge executive bonuses where just a financial sector issue, guess again. AIG and other financial institutions are making headlines while paying out lavish sums while receiving bailout money. Equally as puzzling is how media executives are being rewarded...

The Life magazine photo archive is now online offering a chance to see what would arguably be the "greatest hits" of the photography world in the last century. One could spend hours looking through the galleries. The site was developed in collaboration with Getty...

Today we take a break from the constant barrage of headlines about job losses and share a photo submitted by Tony Dejak of the Associated Press. Dejak came across the mysterious Michael Keating from the Cincinnati Enquirer at the Cincinnati Reds' spring training...

We've been hearing bits of news lately that the operations at The (Medina County) Gazette and The (Elyria) Chronicle Telegram were being merged in some fashion. Now a report from the Ohio Media Watch blog spells out the details of the arrangement. It appears the...

The Saginaw News, The Flint Journal, and The Bay City Times will no longer be on a daily print cycle and will publish only on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays as of June 1. All three publications are owned by Advance Publications, who is also closing the Ann Arbor...

Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA's 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Sunday at the contest's host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL.This year 3,700 journalists from 147 countries submitted...

On the heels of the closing of the Rocky Mountain News the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has stopped the presses. As had been speculated the 146-year-old Seattle daily will now deliver the news online only, a move the entire industry will be watching closely.The newsroom...

Under the radar of recent headlines of large metro papers across the country giving Associated Press their two year cancellation notice, the Norwalk (OH) Reflector was ahead of the trend. They gave their notice two years ago and are three weeks into life without AP....

The Newspaper Guild, representing newsroom employees at The (Toledo) Blade, will meet with company representatives today to explore layoff alternatives at the newspaper. The union was unsuccessful in obtaining buyouts in December when the newsroom was trimmed by 20...

Following Cleveland's lead three Columbus broadcast outlets have announced plans to pool coverage for planned news events. WCMH-TV, WXYX-TV and WTTE-TV are the stations involved in the sharing agreement.Full story

Lisa DeJong of The Plain Dealer was a first place winner in the Feature Picture Story category of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition. DeJong’s story, “Survivor’s Journey” won the James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award in the ONPA...

Citing its location in one of the weakest markets in the country, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer was included in a list of the 10 major daily papers that are most likely to fold or shutter their print operations and only publish online by the end of next year in a Time...

This issue of who owns the rights to visual depictions from high school sporting events has reared its ugly head again. This is round two for the issue in Wisconsin and it pits the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) against Gannett, publisher of the...

The deadline for submissions to the 41st Annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Photo Contest sponsored by Canon is April 6th. For complete rules and instructions on how to upload your photos use this link.Even if you're not interested in entering, the contest page has...

The Columbus Dispatch is one of the few Ohio newspapers that haven't had to resort to layoffs to offset falling revenues, but that is about to change. According to a story on the newspaper's Web site 45 newsroom staffers are facing layoffs effective April 3.In 2007...

Matthew Rafferty of WJW-TV in Cleveland won two third place awards for his work in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2009: Video News Editing contest. Rafferty won for work in the News Feature (Editors) category and in the Editors Effects category. Co-worker David...

Matt Eich, a student from Ohio University, has been selected as the 2008 SportsShooter.com Student Photographer of the Year by a panel of judges gathered together at the Adorama Camera Building in New York City, Thursday, February 26, 2009.Eich was the 2007 winner of...