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Announced last night by NPPA:
Photojournalist and NPPA member Pete Souza has accepted the position of official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama, he told News Photographer magazine tonight.”
Souza met then senator Barack Obama back in 2005 while covering his first day in the U.S. Senate for The Chicago Tribune. Souza documented the freshman senator’s [...]

Happy New Year to all! 2008 was filled with a fantastic trip to India, a good internship at The Elkhart Truth, a look into an historic political season, and graduation. Here’s hoping everyone has a good 2009.

Teagan and Blake Mast fidget during the singing of the National Anthem Friday July 25, 2008 on the Elkhart [...]

After nearly 1 year from my India trip, I’ve finally compiled the photos into a wedding story. You might have seen some of these photos before, but now they’re all presented together in a story.

Traditionally, Indian weddings are elaborate celebrations filled with rituals and customs dating back thousands of years. Weddings are usually between arranged [...]

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In the past couple of days, there have been 3 major announcements in the newspaper industry.

Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is laying off 10% of the company.
The Tribune Company (owners of such papers as The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune) is undergoing “sharp cutbacks,” by “printing fewer papers and employing fewer [...]

Students played an important roll in Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. Students, residents, paid employees and volunteers alike bonded together to show support for their candidate. Obama’s campaign harnessed the youth vote in a way that had never been done before. According to College News:
The youth, a notoriously unpredictable constituency in voter turnout, dashed to [...]

So it’s finals week. Breaking from studying for my (last ever) finals and editing my independent study, I’m bringing you a video produced last spring quarter here at OU for a video class. This was a collaboration with another photojournalism student, Simon Brubaker. The edit from my independent study covering the election is coming soon. [...]

Judging started Monday for the 63rd annual College Photographer of the Year Competition. Judging for the largest college photography competition runs Monday through Saturday. Judges include Melissa Farlow (National Geographic Magazine), Travis Fox (Washingtonpost.com), Tammy Lechner (Freelance), and Steve Rice (Minneapolis Star Tribune). If you want to get inspired and see what today’s college students [...]

Let me tell you about my crazy election day.
So, being a media photographer, I naturally was going to be photographing this historic election. Anticipating the madness of the day, I went to the Athens County Board of Elections on November 3 to check on the guidelines on photographing inside the polling places. There, I was [...]