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NPPA Members
 $95 ($150 for the two-day program in Portland)
Non-members
 $155 ($210 for the two-day program in Portland)
Student Members
 $70 ($95 for the two-day program in Portland)
Student Non-members
 $130 ($155 for the two-day program in Portland)

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Jeff Siner has been a member of The Charlotte Observer’s photography staff for 20 years. He interned with The Observer in the summer of 1988 and was offered a job on his last day. Siner returned to Charlotte following school at Indiana University where he majored in journalism and minored in psychology. Originally assigned to The Observer’s Gastonia, NC office, he was transferred to the Rock Hill, SC office after six months and then downtown shortly thereafter. He would shoot daily assignments until late June 1991 when he would become the paper’s lone photo editor. For a year and a half, he would maintain this position, assigning, editing, maintaining daily and travel budgets along with evaluations before a second photo editor was hired. He would remain as a photo editor for four more years until late 1997. Upon returning to the staff, he began shooting photo essays including: Vernon’s Goodbye a story that chronicled a man’s battle with cancer for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Death at the Track, an essay following dirt and short track racing fatalities, Death and Dying which focused on the differences between coroners and pathologists and Kayla, a young girl’s journey to Guatemala to be reunited with her mother who had been deported. During this time, he was also heavily involved in The Observers coverage of sporting events including: the Special Olympics, the AAU games, MLB’s All Star Game in Atlanta, numerous NBA games including the former Charlotte Hornets NBA playoff games, the Carolina Panthers regular season games including the playoffs and Super Bowl, NASCAR’s Daytona 500 and races in Charlotte for 20 years, and his personal favorite, weekly prep football games. He has won numerous national and state awards including being named 2002 North Carolina Press Photographer of the Year.  In January 2008, he was asked to be a member of McClatchy’s Beijing 2008 Olympics team. 

PRESENTATION: The role photojournalism plays in today’s newsrooms is constantly changing. Many photojournalists are struggling with higher demands for content with little training, resources and limited production time. We will have a conversation to talk about some of these issues and some tips to help today’s photojournalists cope with the rapidly changing landscape. 

BIOGRAPHY: Kelly Jordan has been working in various aspects of photojournalism for the past 19 years. In January 2008 she began a new chapter in her career becoming a video producer for The Florida Times-Union. In her new role, she coordinates the photo/video department?s multimedia coverage, shoots and edits her own video stories, as well as those of the staff, produces audio slideshows and coordinates staff training. As a photojournalist, picture editor and AME/Photo & Multimedia, she received numerous awards for photography and picture editing. She has taught multimedia storytelling at the Truth With A Camera, Platypus and NPPA Women In Photojournalism workshops. Kelly completed her undergraduate degree in photography from the University of Central Florida.

In his 22+ year career, he has been published by Newsweek, The New York Times, French Elle, American Cinematographer, National Geographic and countless others.

With a passion for international news and conflict, he has been covering the war in Iraq from his home base in Istanbul, covering the Sadaam Hussein trial, the killing of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, and the little-seen
inner workings of Baghdad’s Green Zone.  Before relocating to Los Angeles this year, David completed several assignments in Kazakhstan, most notably a story on the non-proliferation of the former Soviet Union’s largest and most secretive biological weapons factory in Stepnogorsk.

David is represented by Zuma Press.

2008 brings David back to the U.S., where he has designed and developed his exclusive line of HonlPhoto lighting tools for small flash location photography.
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Photography http://www.DavidHonlPhoto.com
Lighting Products: http://www.HonlPhoto.com

John Harrington, a Washington DC-based editorial and commercial photographer, and author of the book “Best Business Practices for Photographers”, is a recipient of the 2007 United Nations Leadership Award and John has covered every President since Ronald Reagan. He was commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to illustrate three books with his work, and his work has appeared in, or he has completed assignments for: The National Geographic Society, Rolling Stone, Life, Time, Newsweek, and he has worked commercially for over half of the Fortune 500 companies. He has traveled on national speaking tours educating photographers and artists.

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John Harrington Photography… 

The Poynter Institute’s Regina McCombs will talk about raising the bar and how to improve your video skills and storytelling techniques. 

BIOGRAPHY: Regina McCombs is a new faculty member of the Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia and helping develop distance-learning programs. Until recently, she was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She arrived there after 13 years as a television producer and photographer at KARE-TV, the NPPA-winning powerhouse in the Twin Cities. Winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, as well as an Emmy for her video work, she has been a regular speaker around the country, talking about finding new ways to tell stories on the Web, especially with video.
 

For StarTribune.com, she coordinated the multimedia team’s coverage, shot and edited video stories, created audio slide shows, produced major projects and trained staff in creating multimedia. She also taught classes in online journalism and TV news at the University of Minnesota, where she received her master’s degree.