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Category: Photojournalism
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Cliff Edom’s ‘New America Award’
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The White family has lived outside of Whitesburg, Ky., for generations. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – General News
CLICK NOTE: Great to see this amazing shot get a first place. Only an award of excellence from POYi? Come on!photo by Eric Kayne/Houston Chronicle
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (large markets)
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“Every minute, every hour, pregnant women die in Sierra Leone,” says Amadu Sesay, brother of Jemelleh Saccoh who arrived with her aunt at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown with pregnancy complications for an emergency Caesarean section. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – International News Picture Story, HM
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Fighting between rebels and the government has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid in Congo. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (smaller markets)
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In the early morning of October 20, 2006, six days before his 21st birthday, the Humvee Iraqi translator Diyar al-Bayati was riding in during a routine patrol came under attack by a roadside bomb and an ambush.
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Time Magazine's Top Photo Editor Exits for White House
Alice Gabriner, chief picture editor and acting director of photography for Time, will become White House photo editor and deputy director for the photo office. Time has now churned through three directors of photography in less than three years under managing editor Richard Stengel.
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The Vietnam War, Through Eddie Adams' Lens : NPR
The late photographer Eddie Adams took pictures of hundreds of celebrities and politicians — everyone from Fidel Castro to Mother Teresa to Arnold Schwarzenegger (whom he captured in a bathtub with a rubber duck) — but some of his most searing portraits come from his work during the Vietnam War.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – 1st Place, Domestic News Picture Story
by Brian L Frank/The Wall Street JournalOver 4000 people were murdered in relation to drug violence in Mexico last year.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – 1st Place, Environmental Picture Story
Residents and rescue workers evacuate from the centre of earthquake-hit Beichuan county,Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. Thousands fled amid fears a lake would burst its banks in Beichuan, near the epicentre of China’s earthquake in which a total 50,000 people may have died, a Reuters photographer said. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt. People were told to flee to the hillsides in a public announcement. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Ed Kashi: Travels in India 6
Photojournalism and the documentary tradition is alive and well, but like Frank Zappa once said about jazz, “Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
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At The Galleries: War Story: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker
The other night, a group of hard-core journalist types gathered at the Umbrage gallery, in DUMBO, for an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by the late Eddie Adams. The centerpiece was Adams’s 1968 Pulitzer Prizewinning photograph, taken for the Associated Press, of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief of South Vietnam, firing a bullet into the head of a Vietcong suspect
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RESOLVE — Photo assignments from bloggers: new model or same old problems? 7
Photojournalist Alan Chin and Michael Shaw, founder of the BAGnewsNotes blog, have been collaborating on coverage of political events for several years. Here Michael explains the way they uncover discrepancies between media spin and what’s happening on the ground
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Appalachian Cultural Project
The Appalachian Cultural Project is designed to promote the education of Western Kentucky University photojournalism students while respectfully documenting the people and the culture of the Appalachian region.
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Stress as a photojournalist in St. Louis? Perhaps last week at the church shooting in Maryville. | PICTURES | STLtoday
Last Sunday was one of those days. A simple game of shooting baskets with my son Sam was interrupted by the telephone. Wearing the same clothes I slept in, I grabbed cameras and headed northeast some 35 miles to join fellow staffer John White at the scene of the church shooting at First Baptist Church at Maryville, where the pastor had been shot dead while preaching his morning sermon.
