November NEWSPhotographer Magazine

The November 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on the Saturday Feature, a page one weekly picture story at The Herald in Jasper, IN, where they’re celebrating its 30th anniversary. Herald editor John Rumbach writes about how the Saturday Feature got started, and what they’ve learned over the years about what it means to the southern Indiana community where the Rumbach’s publish their third-generation family-owned newspaper. Reflecting on the Saturday Feature, photojournalist and editor Bryan Moss looks at how good photojournalism makes a community stronger through shared, intimate connections.

Also in this issue, Fox 21’s news director Julie Moravchik writes about “The Little Station That Could,” as she and her crew started two newscasts from scratch, first in Ashland, WI, and then again a few months later in Duluth, MN. Eugene Richard’s new book “A Procession Of Them” is out now, and writer Stephen Wolgast finds in Richards’ photographs why documenting human rights is such an important issue. In Texas, photojournalistDave Garrett and pilot John Downhower died when KTRK-TV’s news helicopter crashed into a state forest, and investigators are searching for what happened. And NPPA’s two-time Video Editor of the Year title winner ShawnMontano in Denver has had “a shift in attitude” this second time around. These stories, and more, in the November 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.