Region One member Damian Strohmeyer was featured recently in a nice write up in his hometown Lexington Minuteman newspaper. Read the story here.

Aurora in Portland has posted news about Paula Lerner’s recent award for work done for the Globe and Mail. -Don

Hi everyone.  Thanks to Sarah for hooking me and associate director John Walker up with our blog. I’m hoping that we’ll be able to ramp up communication between organizations and members here and in other ways.  We’d love to hear from you.  I need to know what’s on your mind and how best members can [...]

Greetings Region 1 NPPA members! I was originally going to start at the beginning of the year but got behind and well, you know how work goes. So February looked appropriate to kick things off for 2009. I promise to be more up to date in the future. Yesterday, the results of the 2008 annual [...]

AP phenom photog Stephan Savoia told me long ago that the value of contests isn’t the winning but the opportunity to personally review and rate your work from the past year. So sit down with your favorite external backup device and start sifting through folders. Like what you see? What do you want to do [...]

The Journal-Inquirer in Manchester, CT laid off Adrian Keating, Associate Editor for Photography, and staff photographer Irena Pastorello. Both have won awards throughout their careers with the paper. Managing Editor Chris Powell talked to CTnewsjunkie saying that relative to the paper’s 39,000 circulation the staff is still large. He also warned that more layoffs may [...]