August 30, 2006 - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (SUBURBAN CHICAGO) Paddock Publications is based out of the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights and has four fully staffed bureaus. With a circulation of 151,000+ and a staff of 28 photographers, the Daily Herald is the 3rd largest newspaper in Illinois and in the top 80 in the country.

As the “voice of the suburbs,” we print 27 zones daily, serving the north and northwest Chicago metropolitan area. We provide our interns with the opportunity to photograph a wide range of assignments, including but not limited to: News, Features, Prep Sports, Pro Sports, Advertising and Studio Work. Feedback and editing will be provided by supervisors and staff. Interns should be a second year or later photojournalism student.

Interns will be supplied with professional digital cameras, lenses, strobes and a Mac laptop but should submit list of personal equipment with application. We offer spring, summer and fall semester internships. Deadline for the Spring 2007 internship is October 20th, 2006.

To apply and learn more about our internship opportunities, visit our Web site, www.dailyherald.com/hr

Send Portfolios to:

Daily Herald
Attn. Jeff Knox / Director of Photography - Fox Valley
155 E. Algonquin Road
Arlington Height, IL 60005
Fax: (847) 427-1300
E-mail: jknox@dailyherald.com

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August 29, 2006 - According to a report published on Businesswire.com Tuesday, Community Newspapers, Inc., a Milwaukee-area based suburban weekly newspaper group, is expected to cut approximately 15 positions from its newsroom print staff within the next several weeks as the company shifts its focus toward increasing its online news presence.

Journal Interactive is expected to add about 10 new jobs devoted to writing and developing the CNI web sites, among other projects, the report said.

There is no word on the nature and/or extent of the staff cuts at the time of the report.

Link to article

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August 26, 2006 - Clip contest standings updated through June results.

Mark Hoffman Journal Sentinel 595

Corey Wilson Press Gazette 560

Dan Lassiter Janesville Gazette 420

John Maniaci Wisconsin State Journal 365

Evan Siegle Press-Gazette 320

Dan Powers Post-Crescent 315

Mike De Sisti Post-Crescent 270

Kevin Poirier Kenosha News 200

Gregory Shaver Journal Times 195

Bruce Halmo Sheboygan Press 175

Marc Larson Press-Gazette 170

Tom Loucks Daily Tribune 140

William Glasheen Freelance 130

Brad Rupert Press Gazette 130

Steve Kinderman Leader-Telegram 115

Sam Castro Sheboygan Press 110

Al Hoch Janesville Gazette 105

Sharon Cekada Post-Crescent 90

Terry Mayer The Week 80

Kirk Wagner Post-Crescent 80

Craig Schreiner Wisconsin State Journal 50

Ron Kuenstler Community Newspapers, Inc. 50

Mike De Vries Capital Times 50

Mike Roemer Freelance 40

Michelle Stocker Capital Times 40

Kristyna Wentz-Graff Journal Sentinel 40

Patrick Ferron Post-Crescent 15

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August 25, 2006 - The spam filter regularly used to block spam comments on the WNPA weblog went nuts. It not only blocked unwanted comments, it also blocked everyone else wishing to add to our online discussions. Sorry. It has been removed from the site until a suitable replacement can be found.

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August 24, 2006 - Rick Wood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently received a call from Bill Appleby of VP Gallery who organized a photo show of the work of Dale Guldan, a staff photographer at the Milwaukee Journal and WNPA member who died unexpectedly last year.

WNPA helped co-sponser a photo exhibit of his work that was shown at the gallery with the proceeds from the prints sales to benefit the children of Joyce Guldan, his wife, who lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin…Wood is happy to report that VP sold 39 prints from the show which generated a $2,000 gift to Joyce (she picked up the check this week in Milwaukee).

It was wildly successful and showed many persons living the power of Dale’s pictures.
Joyce indicated the funds will come in handy as college tuition payments for her children become due soon…..Thanks to Bill Appleby of VP for doing all the legwork to make this show such a success in Dale’s memory.

Rick Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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August 25, 2006 - June WNPA monthly clip results are here. Clips were judged by the staff at the Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, NJ.

Spot news
1 Corey Wilson: Allouez Fire
2 Kevin Poirier: Bristol Fire
3 Corey Wilson: Bellevue Trailer Fire

Portrait
1 Evan Siegle: Prep Golfer
2 Evan Siegle: Prep Discus
3 Evan Siegle: Prep Soccer
HM Kevin Poirier: Santa Ines Farmer

Illustration
1 John Maniaci: Stem Cell Research
2 Dan Powers: Puzzle Executive
3 John Maniaci: Herbal Tea

General News
1 Kirk Wagner: Drive-In Movie
2 Mark Hoffman: Memorial Balloon Launch
3 Dan Lassiter: Mopar T-34 Airplane
HM Mike DeSisti: National Guard Sendoff

Feature Multiple
1 Kevin Poirier: The Mexican Way
2 Bruce Halmo: Midway Rides
3 Corey Wilson: Harley Rally
hm Al Hoch: Lake Geneva Raceway

Sports
1 Mike DeSisti: Seymour/Xavier Baseball
2 Tom Loucks: UWSP Baseball Celebrate over Ripon
3 Dan Powers: Soccer Goal Scored
HM Dan Lassiter: Parker Shortstop tags Craig
HM Tom Loucks: Assumption Fatherly Hug

Feature
1 H. Marc Larson: Umbrella Kids
2 Sam Castro: Three Porthole Faces
3 Gregory Shaver: Armenian Picnic Guitarist

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From Roger Turner, retired Wisconsin State Journal Photographer

Cliff (and June) Harmon of The Harmon Studio in Algoma, WI were good friends
of WNPA. Used to provide hospitality rooms at WNPA functions and worked
with members to give ‘em good service and preferential treatment on
equipment purchases.

Quite by accident I crossed paths with him two weeks ago in a nursing home
in Algoma while I was there with another friend of ours. Cliff has
Parkinson’s disease and, though I didn’t think he was even aware of my
speaking with him, he did react. I thought he was having a really bad
reaction to my visit and got a nurse who said he was trying to communicate.
His daughter is the head of the nursing staff and she was thrilled when she
heard I’d visited him. Thought it would be wonderful if others who knew
him might stop by or send a note. (Who knows when any of us might be in
similar straits and a little bit of attention might bring a lot of joy to
Cliff and his family.) To that end I’m wondering if the WNPA website or any
mailing in the very near future might pass along this call.

He’s at: Algoma Long Term Care Unit
1510 Fremont St
Algoma, WI 54201

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August 24, 2006 - AP Greenbay based freelancer Mike Roemer demonstrates that he too can shoot from a different angle against Evan Siegel of the Green Bay Press Gazette as they prepare to shoot Brett Favre’s arrival during the Green Bay Packers Family Night scrimmage Saturday, August 5, 2006 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Photo by Rick Wood. RICK WOOD/RWOOD@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM.

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August 24, 2006 - Green Bay Press-Gazette photojournalist Corey Wilson cruises along on his bike after documenting the funeral of Green Bay firefighter Arnie Wolff, who was killed in the line of duty, in Green Bay on Friday, Aug. 18, 2006. Wilson documented the funeral by using only video. Photo by Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette

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August 18, 2006 - Are you creating video for your paper’s website? Feeling lonely and outcast? Join the NewspaperVideo email list for fellow photographers who have discovered the joys of dropouts, codecs, nle’s, and bitrates!

Newspaper video journalists are a rare but rapidly-expanding breed. I’m Chuck Fadely, a veteran still shooter at the Miami Herald. I’ve switched to shooting video full time and I’m starting this email list to let us link up and share experiences. While publishers seem to be gung-ho on video, newsrooms often don’t seem to know what to do with it. Maybe this’ll help figure it out.

The membership is vetted and is intended for newspaper staffers; it should be low traffic. Some of the topics I’d like to talk about:
story telling
newsroom structure and politics
workflow
workload
assignment vs. authorship
web players
traffic measurement
ad placement
codecs, bitrates, compression
gear
audio
video vs. SoundSlides vs. Flash packages
etc

Send an email to NewspaperVideo-subscribe@yahoogroups.com mailto:NewspaperVideo-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to the NewspaperVideo site at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewspaperVideo and sign up. Please tell me who you are, and real names….

If you can’t or don’t want to sign up for Yahoo Groups!, send an email mailto:cfadely@miamiherald.com with your name and email and I’ll add you to the mail list manually.

Please forward this to any other shooters you know who might be interested.

Thanks,

Chuck Fadely
Visual Journalist
The Miami Herald
cfadely@miamiherald.com
(305)796-4378

www.miamiherald.com
www.chuckfadely.com

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