Let me start by describing my day on February 26. I’ll start at the end, just so you know it isn’t a tragedy. It ends with Laphroaig over ice. Back to the beginning. Up at 5 am to drive to a murder trial where I would be the pool camera. That’s complicated by snow, blowing [...]

Today the NPPA released the following statement: The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) Urge Corporate News Media Organizations to Improve and Expand News Coverage The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) are keenly aware that newsrooms in the United States [...]

Maybe purity isn’t the right goal? I just listened to a Frank Deford commentary on performance enhancing drugs in sport and how they harm the purity of the experience. Now, I’m not one to argue with Frank, his weekly commentary on NPR is a must-hear for me, and in this case I’m not sure I [...]

I must offer a mea culpa this morning. Like any human being I made a mistake, one of perhaps minor overall consequence, but one of direct relevance to the office I hold. Over the weekend I spotted a very entertaining photo/commentary on Facebook depicting “what photojournalists do”. If you haven’t seen it I’m sure you [...]

I had THAT conversation again recently, with a member who is up for renewal trying to decide if they’re going to send in their dues or not. It’s a conversation I’ve had countless times in the years I’ve been involved in the NPPA leadership, I imagine it’s a conversation I’ll have at least as many [...]

My September News Photographer Column: Word out of Augusta, Georgia that Chronicle Director of Photography John Curry has fallen victim to the budget ax comes as visual journalism can ill afford to lose yet another photo editor. As more and more papers make deep cuts into the skilled, talented, dedicated (how many positive adjectives do [...]

I have David Burnett to thank for this blog … it was one of his that inspired my need to comment. Of course I have to thank Facebook for the privilege of being regularly privy to Burnett’s musings. Because without it I might not remember to check his blog as often as it merits among [...]

St. Pete Times photojournalist Melissa Lyttle, who I appointed to serve on the NPPA board of directors in February, is the founder of an online community called “A Photo A Day” (APAD) and creator of the annual “Geekfest”, which is a gathering of self-professed photojournalism “geeks”. It’s in Denver this year. Sadly I won’t be [...]

The news Friday that an Oakland, California jury had convicted a local man in the murder of a newspaper editor was tempered by the news out of Olympia Washington that NPPA Past President Tony Overman and his employer were the target of another example of domestic terrorism when anarchists vandalized Tony’s home and the newspaper [...]

The buzz over the impending application deadline for the Eddie Adams Workshop has sparked my nostalgic side. It was 1994, I’d tried a couple times already, but I was going into my second year as a staffer, so time was running out when I finally got that acceptance letter. I had no idea what to [...]