ONPA
Ohio News Photographers Association
Year-end contest rules available for download
Contest season is once again upon us and the rules for the ONPA year-end still, online photojournalism and television contests are available to download. Rules are available on the ONPA website under the Contest Rules tab at the top of the page, or you can click on...
read moreWarriors Journey Home
Laura Fong Torchia, a senior visual journalism major at Kent State University has embarked on a three-week mission to chronicle the Warriors Journey Home ministry as they travel to Vietnam. Five Vietnam veterans are included in the group as they take the opportunity...
read moreSquillante, Humel named Ohio SPJ Best Photographers
Fred Squillante from The Columbus Dispatch and Chuck Humel from The (Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram were recognized as Best Photographers in the 14th annual Ohio SPJ Awards.Squillante was the winner for newspapers over 100,000 circulation. Ed Suba Jr of the Akron Beacon...
read moreQuarterly television contest is a toss up
After two quarters Billy Muhammed from WJW-TV in Cleveland is in first place with 2009 clip POY Steve Maguire from WBNS-TV in Columbus tailing by just one point on the ONPA Quarterly Television Clip Contest. Jeff Ritter from WBNS, the year-end POY for the past to...
read moreStaff changes
With the economy being what is is, its been quite some time since we've reported on staff changes that weren't layoff related, but several have taken place recently.ONPA's former webmaster Apryl Pilolli is once again working with a camera in her hand moving from the...
read moreDispatch dominating monthly clip contest
The ONPA Monthly Clip Contest results logjam has broken as we now have results for April and May. Positions at the top of the standings have scrambled since March, but no one new has cracked the top ten. The contest is clearly being dominated by photographers at The...
read moreFormer Topeka photographers surprise former DOP
Some may have worked for less than three years under Director of Photography, Rich Clarkson, but 35 former Topeka Capital-Journal photographers took time out to drop in on their former boss now living in Eugene, Oregon.The reunion was the brainchild of Brian Lanker...
read moreKodachrome: The Final Frames
Those who still talk about the good old days can all feel a little older now after reading about the last roll of Kodachrome which has now been processed. The images were taken by Steve McCurry in New york City and India. The final three frames were taken in Parsons,...
read moreRegion 4 clip contest results
With four of the first six months judged we check in on the NPPA Region 4 Monthly Clip Contest results.The usual suspects can be found among the winners in April. Barbara Perenic from the Springfield News-Sun placed first and second in Sports. Mike Ullery from the...
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