News Photographer Magazine

The August 2010 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Scott Jensen on Dave Delozier, NPPA's first-ever Solo Video Journalist of the Year, who for more than two years now has been going it alone at KUSA-TV in Denver and has never looked back. Also in this issue, Stan Heist writes about three top TV news stations, each winners of Station of the Year honors in the Best Of Photojournalism competition. To carry on the theme of video journalism and solo video journalists, Tom Kennedy talks about what he discovered while researching backpack journalism as it's practiced today while helping American University in Washington design their new academic program.

Other stories include a surprise party and reunion in Eugene, Oregon, for Rich Clarkson; Part Two of "Unfair Use" by Chuck Gathard; Lisa Krantz's first-person account of the year she spent documenting a troubled high school threatened with closure in San Antonio; and book reviews of Claude Cookman's new "American Photojournalism" and "Movie Photos" by Alex Bailey. These stories, and more, in the August 2010 issue of News Photographer magazine.

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The July 2010 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Anne Medley about "Shooting For Truth: Teaching Multimedia In War-Torn Congo." In a country known for treating journalists with brutality, Medley realized that the cost of teaching her students to pursue the truth may someday be their lives. Also in this issue, Stephen Wolgast reviews Sydney Schanberg's new book "War Writings: Beyond The Killing Fields"; Part One of the series "Unfair Use" by Chuck Gathard; a feature story about "When Maisie Crow Met Tom Rose"; and the crazy career turns of television freelance photojournalist Thomas Hass. These and more in the July 2010 issue of News Photographer magazine.