Florida Reporter's New Job Raises Questions About Past Articles
Michael Fechter, a reporter the Tampa Tribune, quit his job Monday to do writing and editing work focusing on Islamic extremeists for Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, according to the newspaper. Now critics are claiming that Fechter's work at the paper was tainted by his relationship to Emerson and his project.
Read The Editor & Publisher's story here.
May 8, 2007 Posted by The Editor & Publisher
Charlotte Sun Editor Says Altered Photo On AP Network Was An Honest Mistake
A photograph that was the subject of a mandatory photo elimination bulletin by the Associated Press on Friday because it had been digitally altered was the result of an honest mistake, and not an attempt to publish a doctored photograph, the executive editor of the Charlotte Sun told the NPPA's News Photographer magazine today.
Read The National Press Photographers Association story here.
May 7, 2007 Posted by The National Press Photographers Association
Daytona Beach News-Journal Photographer Dies Of Cancer
John Roger Simms, 58, a staff photographer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, died Thursday at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center after a short battle with cancer. He joined the paper in 1980 and worked for more than two decades for the News-Journal, most recently in the Southeast Volusia bureau.
Simms, a member of the National Press Photographer's Association and the Florida Press Club, was very excited about about the future of the club, said George McGinn, president of the Florida Press Club.
"Roger really cared about his work and was willing to get involved to help others," McGinn said of his conversation with Simms during last year's awards banquet. "He wanted to help us in anyway he could."
Simms took first place in the FPC's Sports Action Photography category last year.
Read The National Press Photographers Association story here.
May 5, 2007 Posted by The National Press Photographers Association
Daytona Beach News-Journal Photographer Elected as NPPA's Region 6 Associate Director
Michalowski, a photography editor for The Daytona Beach News-Journal won his election as the National Press Photographers Associations' associate director for Region 6.
In his letter to the NPPA members of Region 6, one of his goals is to work with local groups, including the Florida Press Club, to build working relationships.
The Florida Press Club congratulates Michalowski and will support his efforts to improve the needs of photographers here in Florida, said George McGinn, president of the Florida Press Club.
"The board and I look forward to teaming up with the NPPA on a regional level to help our photography members," McGinn said.
Read The National Press Photographers Association story on who won, who lost here.
May 1, 2007 Posted by The National Press Photographers Association
Former Star Photographer Killed In Head-On Florida Crash
Kimberly Susan (Travis) Heinsohn, 47, a former Indianapolis Star newspaper photographer who moved to Florida from Indiana about five years ago, was killed Saturday night in a head-on collision after she drove for more than a mile on the wrong side of U.S. 41. A local high school football player seriously injured.
Read The National Press Photographers Association story here.
March 6, 2007 Posted by The National Press Photographers Association
Effort to scrap 'false light' law has powerful allies at Capitol
Legislation that would benefit the media have well-placed allies in this year's effort to scrap the state's ''false light'' doctrine for suing publishers or broadcasters over accurate, but irritating, statements in news reports.
Proponents see it as a protection for unfettered news reporting. Others warn that taking away the option to sue for ''embarrassment, humiliation and ridicule'' will diminish the common-law right to be left alone.
Read Bill Cotterell's Tallahassee Democrat story here.
March 2, 2007 Posted by Tallahassee Democrat
First black reporter at Herald dies
Thirlee Smith Jr., the first black reporter at The Miami Herald and an educator who developed the African-American history curriculum in Miami-Dade schools, died Wednesday of liver and kidney failure, family said. He was 67.
Read Andrea Robinson's Miami Herald story here.
February 13, 2007 Posted by Miami Herald
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