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Two in a row: Ron Johnson is the NPPA Region 5 Still Photographer of the Year
IPPA iBOP & iSBOP 2007 Results
NPPA Region 5 Web Site Receives NPPA's Outstanding Publication Award
New NPPA Region 5 Publication Chair/Webmaster Announced
Shilts Honored Twice; Crowned R5 & National POY-TV
NFL Owners Change Sideline TV Photographer Ban
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Two in a row: Ron Johnson is the NPPA Region 5 Still Photographer of the Year
Congratulations,
once again, to Ron Johnson, NPPA Region 5's Photographer of the year!
To see the final point standings, click
here...
This is the second year in a row that Ron Johnson of the Journal Star in Peoria, Ill., has won the Region 5 Photographer of the Year title. The first time he won the title was in 1991 while Johnson was a staff photographer at the La Crosse Tribune in La Crosse, Wis., in 1991. While in La Crosse, Johnson held the Wisconsin News Photographers Association's Clip POY title for 10 consecutive years.
He began his career while still attending college at the University of South Dakota where he studied Mass Communications, and shooting for the weekly Vermillion Plain Talk, then as a staff photographer for the Brookings Daily Register.
"The Journal Star believes in giving it's photographers creative freedom with great photo-play that page designers display each day," he said.
Ron has been on staff at the Journal Star since 2001, living in the town
of Washington, Ill., with his wife Cathy, and sons Tyler and Matt.
IPPA iBOP & iSBOP 2007 Results
Get the results of the iBOP and iSBOP contests on the Illinois Press Photographers Association Web site.
NPPA Region 5 Web Site Receives NPPA's Outstanding Publication Award
The NPPA Outstanding Publication Award was given to Maria Neels for http://www.nppa5.org June 2, 2007 at the
Photojournalism Summit and Multimedia Immersion
in Portland, Oregon.
NPPA past president Alicia Wagner Calzada , of San Antonio, TX, was chairman of this year's Honors & Recognitions Committee.
"You have designed and maintained a quality, timely, and relevant Web site for Region 5 that recognizes and informs still and TV news photographers," Calzada said.
The site redesign template was created by NPPA Region 5 member Hart Van Denburg, who lives in Minneapolis.
Maria has maintained and improved the site and its features for the past four years. She stepped down at the end of May after her husband got a job in New Jersey, in preparation for their move.
"I couldn't have maintained and improved the site without the help of a lot of people in the NPPA," Maria said.
New NPPA Region 5 Publication Chair/Webmaster Announced
Region 5 Director Gregory Morley announced today that Kenneth Exum, a staff photographer and web editor with The Register-Mail, in Galesburg, Ill. has been appointed Region 5 Publication Chair/Webmaster. Ken replaces Maria Neels who is relocating with her family to New Jersey.
Ken is a Chicago native, served 21 years in the U.S. Navy and is experienced in a myriad of technical skills including web publishing, photography, journalism, organizational and asset management and teaching in public schools. He currently manages his paper's online editorial content including multimedia projects.
When he wasn't constructing missiles during his military career, Ken was busy with public relations strategies, planning and coordination of deployment exercises and training subordinates in subjects ranging from darkroom development to television programming to combat readiness.
We are excited to have him volunteer and are confident our award winning regional Web sitewill continue to provide timely and relevant information to Region 5 members.
Please welcome Ken Exum.
Shilts Honored Twice; Crowned R5 & National POY-TV
Andy Shilts of KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, MN, has been named the 2007 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year.�Shilts is a Wisconsin native who attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and majored in broadcast journalism before getting his start in the industry at WREX-TV in Rockford, Illinois. In 2004 he moved to Wisconsin's WKOW-TV in Madison, and then on to the Twin Cities and KMSP-TV in March, 2005. He's known for enjoying the challenges that come with general assignment work, and for taking non-visual stories and turning them into entertaining and informative pieces. He's a regional and national award winner, including a 2006 regional Emmy Award.
Read more at http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/03/bop07.html .
NFL Owners Change Sideline TV Photographer Ban
The Radio-Television News Directors Association today said they applaud a decision this week by National Football League team owners who have agreed to change their 2006 unanimous vote banning local television affiliates from NFL game sidelines....MORE