January ‘09 NEWS Photographer Magazine

The January 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Alisa Booze Troetschel about shooting for non-profits and charities and NGOs as a career-building and portfolio-expanding exercise, as well as nurturing the photographer’s soul while also building some new business.

Other stories in this issue include Times Union editor Rex Smith’s essay about how a photojournalist’s job is to present a true picture of the world, even if sometimes it isn’t pretty; Sandy Huffaker’s first-person account of covering a Marine Corps jet that crashed into his neighborhood, killing four; Stephen Wolgast’sreview of Reza’s new book, “War + Peace”; Photography editor Joanne Ciccarello’s first-person account of what’s going on at The Christian Science Monitor as the newspaper shifts from a daily print product to the Web and a weekly tabloid; Bruce Young’s take on WUSA-TV dropping the traditional three-person crew and shifting to VJs in Washington, DC; and a feature on the photojournalism students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who have started their own picture agency under the guidance of assistant professorBruce Thorson. These, and other stories, in the January 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.