April ‘09 NEWS Photographer magazine

The April 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story about this year’s new Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year that’s written by a former Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year. WBFF-TV’s Darren Durlach from Baltimore is this year’s winner and he’s profiled byStan Heist, who won the same top Best Of Photojournalism honor in 2006. And there are three DVDs included with this issue for all NPPA members, discs that feature the 2008 Television Photography and Editing winners from last year’s Best Of Photojournalism competition.

Also in this issue, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jim Sheeler looks at why the quiet photographs that graced the pages of The Rocky Mountain News were so successful day in and day out, and how the photography staff specialized in daily coverage of everyday people. (Sheeler and Todd Heisler won Pulitzers for their special series “Final Salute” in the Rocky in 2006). Also in this issue, Stephen Wolgast reviews Ed Kashi’s new book, “Three”; author Dave Bolsterwrites about how photojournalist Anthony Suau has moved back to the United States and is in the process of “rediscovering America”; and Jamie Rose writes about her first-person experience with teaching documentary photography. These and other stories are in the April 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.