MPW.59 Faculty
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Randy Cox, senior editor for visuals Randy Cox is the senior editor for visuals at The Oregonian in Portland, where he has worked since 1997. He has also worked as a staff photographer and photo editor at verious newspapers from 1976 to 1984. He also worked as Assistant Mananging Editor/Photography and Graphics at The Hartford Courant from 1984 to 1993 and as a freelance design consultant from 1993 to 1996. He was a Professional in Residence at The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada/Reno between 1995 and 1996. He was also Editor of "The Best of Photojournalism" five times between 1995 and 2000. He has earned many awards over the years from Pictures of the Year International competition and The Society for News Design competitions. He graduated in 1975 from the University of Missouri with a B.J. in Photojournalism.
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Seth M. Gitner, multimedia editor Seth M. Gitner has been interested in multimedia journalism since 1998 when he first learned about pairing recorded audio with still photographs. Before working as multimedia editor, he was a staff photojournalist for The Roanoke Times. Seth graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1995 with a degree in photojournalism. He then spent 3 years as a photographer in Ocean City, Md. and then 2 years as a staff photographer at the Carroll County Times in Westminster, Md. He has taught multimedia at the Poynter Institute's Visual Edge Workshop and the North Carolina Photojournalism Workshop. Seth is past president of the Virginia News Photographers Association. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Press Photographer's Association.
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Dennis Dimick, executive editor Dennis Dimick is an associate editor at National Geographic Magazine and oversees both the illustrations and photo departments. He has a been a photo editor speicalizing in environment coverage since 1990. He has photo edited a dozen NGS books, including a 1996 book on the Endangered Species Act called The Company We Keep. A September 2004 magazine project he proposed and oversaw on global climate change called Signs From Earth received a citation this year from the Overseas Press Club for best enviromental coverage, and has been nominated by the Society of Environmental Journalists for best explanatory journalism. |
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Geri Migielicz, director of photography Geri Migielicz is the Director of Photography at the San Jose Mercury News, a newspaper with a national reputation for its innovation and excellence in photojournalism, photo editing and multimedia. She was a 2004-05 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where she studied multimedia narratives. Geri is a founding board member of Associated Press Photo Managers, an organization committed to the sharing of best practices and the professional development of photo editors and managers.
She has won numerous awards for photo editing in the Pictures of the Year International and Society for News Design annual contests. Under her direction, the San Jose Mercury News has won POYi’s Angus McDougall Award for Excellence in Picture Editing and its coverage of the California recall election was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography. |
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Melissa Farlow, freelance Melissa Farlow has contributed to National Geographic magazine for the past 11 years. Previously, Farlow was a staff photographer at The Pittsburgh Press, and The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. While in Louisville, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for photographic coverage of desegregation. Farlow worked in three African countries for Women in the Material World, a book comparing women’s roles in different cultures. She photographed in Chile, Peru and Mexico for a book on the Pan American Highway and most recently published a Geographic book titled "Wild Lands of the West". Her images have won multiple awards in the Pictures of the Year competition and other contests. Farlow received her B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and her master's from the University of Missouri where she also taught photojournalism. |
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Lois Raimondo, staff photographer Lois Raimondo's 1998 investigative story for New York Newsday on corruption in the New York City Mitchell Lama housing project earned a Pulitzer Prize finalist nomination. Raimondo lived for 12 years in Tibet, India, China and Vietnam, producing a range of work, including essays about Tibetan cultural survival and a children's book entitled The Little Lama of Tibet. As chief photographer of AP's Hanoi bureau, she has covered everything from Presidential visits to the Kobe earthquake to the lingering effects of the Vietnam War. She received a master’s degree in news editorial and photojournalism from the University of Missouri in 1988. |
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MaryAnne Golon, director of photography MaryAnne Golon is the picture editor of TIME magazine, where she began her career in 1983. She coordinated the photography for TIME Magazine's Award, black-bordered, special edition commemorating September 11 that won a ASME National Magazine Award. During the Gulf War, Golon served as the on-site photography editor for TIME and LIFE magazines. She and a team of picture editors at TIME have won multiple POYi editing awards and best use of photography by a magazine twice. Golon also teaches the World Press Photo Masterclass. Golon graduated with honors from the University of Florida in 1983 and completed a fellowship at Duke University in 1990. |
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Randy Olson, freelance Randy Olson, POYi's Magazine Photographer of the Year for 2003 and Newspaper Photographer of the Year for 1992, has spent the last dozen years working for National Geographic Magazine. He is one of only two photographers to win the title in both media. Olson was also awarded An Alicia Patterson Fellowship to support a seven-year project documenting a family with AIDS. His story on problems with Section 8 housing earned him a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He was awarded the Nikon Sabbatical grant in 1996. The Pittsburgh resident is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri. |
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Kim Komenich, staff photographer Kim Komenich graduated from San Jose State University in 1979 with a B.A. in Journalism. He was a 1993-94 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He also received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Philippine revolution, the 1983 World Press Photo award for news picture stories, and the 1987 SPJ national distinguished service award. He has taught Street Photography, Staff Photojournalism, Picture Story/Photographic Essay, and Documentary Photography. He graduated with a master's degree in Photojournalism from the University of Missouri in 2007. |
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George Olson George Olson is the former Director of Photography for Sunset magazine, and began his career as a newspaper photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Kansas City Star. During a 20-year freelance career before coming to Sunset, he shot for many publications, including National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times, and had many corporate clients. He was a picture editor on multiple books produced by the Day in the Life staff. He was Director of Photography for the book Baseball in America and he edited the Las Vegas book Planet Vegas. He is now West Coast Sales Manager of Digital Railroad, a trusted provider of online technology and services for the global community of buyers and sellers of professional photography. |