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Kurt Austin

Kurt Austin has been a TV News Photojournalist for the past 24 years, the last 18 at KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon.

During his time there, he has been very active in the NPPA, and has participated in seminars throughout the Northwest. He has shown his work and talked about his craft in seminars from Anchorage to San Francisco.

Austin has won 17 Seattle area Emmy awards and has been named the Region 11( Pacific Northwest Chapter) TV Photographer of the Year 6 times. Austin often produces "nat-sound" photo essays, relying on the story subjects themselves to tell the story.

He has been a Judge in the NPPA best of Photojournalism National contest twice, and when not judging has placed in that contest off and on for the last 10 years.

Renee Byer

With over 20 years of experience in the media industry, Renée C. Byer is an award-winning photographer, designer and picture editor.

She has taken honors from the National Press Photographers Association, Society of News Design, Associated Press, and the Best of the West photo and design contest. She has twice been featured in Photo District News magazine for photo stories while working as a staff photographer at The Sacramento Bee. Most recently in the September 2006 Photojournalism issue for her yearlong story "A Mother's Journey."

Her series of photographs on biotechnology titled "Seeds of Doubt" won the Harry Chapin Media Award for World Hunger in Photojournalism in 2005. The series also won first place in the Best of Photojournalism contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association.

In 2005 she was awarded the McClatchy President's Award for her photographs in the "Women at War" series. This was the first time that a Sacramento Bee photojournalist was the sole recipient of the award.

Byer has been a staff photographer at The Sacramento Bee since 2003. Previously she worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where her photography was a finalist for a Dart Award for excellence in reporting on victims of violence. Byer is a long-time newspaper photographer who has worked around the country at a number of top dailies.

She recently served on the faculty of the Mountain Workshop for photojournalism sponsored by Western Kentucky University.

David Frank

Frank has been at The New York Times since 1985.  He has varied experience within the department including a year as the weekend picture editor and five years as the assignment editor.  For 11 years, he served as director of picture desk technology, a new position that directed the department's transition from black & white to color photography and then from film to digital.  This included testing equipment, training the staff and troubleshooting.  Frank served a short stint as acting director of photography (8 months) and has been in his current position as deputy director for four years.

Frank specialized in road trips, especially in the early days of digital transmission. He was the picture editor on location at five Olympics (Lillehammer, Atlanta, Nagano, Sydney and Salt Lake City) and six Yankees playoffs and World Series runs. He has also covered a multitude of other events including Presidential political  conventions/campaigns, NFL playoffs and super bowls, NCAA Final Fours, NBA playoffs, US Open golf and tennis tournaments, Belmont Stakes triple crown attempts, Tony Awards and the Oklahoma City bombing.

Frank began his career at The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Ms., where he started as a photographer and ended up as director of photography.   From Mississippi, he moved to New York City to be a picture editor at The Associated Press.

A Murray, Ky., native, Frank  is a 1980 Western Kentucky University Photojournalism graduate.  He and his wife, Marjorie Anders, have a 14-year-old daughter, Charlotte, and live outside of New York City.

Seth Gitner

Seth M. Gitner has been interested in multimedia journalism since 1998 when he first learned about pairing recorded audio with still photographs. Presently he is Multimedia Editor of roanoke.com. Prior to this position he was a staff photojournalist for The Roanoke Times.

While multimedia editor the newspaper has won the 2005 APME Convergence Award, 2005 Scripps Howard Foundation Web Reporting Award, the 2006 NAA Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling and the 2006 Online News Association Award for General Excellence.

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.

Kevin Johnson

Kevin Johnson is an ENG/EFP videographer based in Washington, D.C. He is currently a TV news photographer, editor, master control operator, IT administrator, andassistant operations manager covering U.S. Congress, and the White House for 15 television stations owned by Cox Broadcasting.

Since 1996 he has been the Designer and producer of web site dedicated to television news photography, with over 3,000 members and nearly 1,000 unique visits daily.

His resume includes the following: WVEC-TV 13 [ABC, Norfolk, VA]TV news photographer, editor, with international assignments including Bosnia, Cuba, Italy, Albania, and Arabian Gulf. November WBOC-TV 16 [CBS, Salisbury, MD] TV news photographer, editor, live truck operator, and studio camera operator. Universal Studios Florida, Production Department Production assistant for back lot productions, including national commercials and network programming. Position received after completed internship. Studio 151 (a division of Preston Trucking Company)Videographer, editor, computer graphics and 3D animation designer, writer, and producer for corporate video department. WMDT-TV 47 [ABC, Salisbury, MD] Weekend Director, ENG/EFP videographer, studio camera operator, live audiooperator, and editor. Kevin graduated from Salisbury State University. Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. Summa Cum Laude in 1993.

Johnson's awards include NPPA Region 3 Quarterly TV News Clip Awards 2nd Place “Coleman Bridge Toll” 1996, 3rd Place “Lunar Eclipse” 1996, Honorable Mention “STOMP” 1997, Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals, Best Television Continuing News Coverage 1999, “Small Town Drugs” Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, DC Chapter Emmy Nomination Documentary “Navy Christmas” 2000.

Kylene Lloyd

Kylene Lloyd, 26, has been a staff photographer at The Courier-Journal for 2 1/2 years. She grew up in Louisville, graduated from Western Kentucky University and had an internship at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

She has won awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Kentucky Press Photographers Association and in College Photographer of the Year competition.

At The Courier-Journal, she helped start "Neighborhood Clicks," and she has chronicled a young mother's struggle with breast cancer. She lives in Louisville.

Keith Morrison

Keith Morrison is an award-winning correspondent for Dateline NBC. He joined the program in 1995 after a varied career at both NBC and in Canadian television. He has covered stories worldwide, interviewing everyone from presidents and prime ministers, student protesters under fire in Tiananmen Square, to criminals, teachers, artists, actors and authors. 

Morrison started in the 1960s as a junior reporter for a small Canadian newspaper. By the beginning of the '70s he had migrated through several radio stations and into television, where he was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Toronto.

He joined the Canadian CTV Network in the mid-70s, first as a morning news anchor, then correspondent, then weekend anchor and producer, and political correspondent. While at CTV, Morrison won national awards for his coverage of the "Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, and the Boat People refugee saga in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

In the early 1980s, Morrison was co-host and chief political correspondent for the CBC Network's The Journal, a nightly news and current affairs program. At "The Journal," he interviewed key newsmakers, both in Canada and worldwide, and contributed documentaries on Canadian political life. While at CBC, Morrison also helped launch (as co-host) a noon-hour network news and lifestyle program, Midday.

Steve Raymer

Professor Steve Raymer, a National Geographic Magazine staff photographer for more than two decades, teaches photojournalism, media ethics, and international newsgathering at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is also on the faculty of the university's Russian and East European Institute.

Raymer earned B.S. and M.A. degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied Soviet and Russian affairs at Stanford University as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow. After service as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, he joined the staff of National Geographic in 1972, launching a career that has taken him to more than 85 countries. From famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Raymer's photographs have illustrated some 30 National Geographic articles. From 1991 to 1995, Raymer also was the director of the National Geographic Society News Service, a joint venture with The New York Times and the Associated Press.

Raymer is the author and photographer of St. Petersburg, a 1994 illustrated book about the imperial Russian capital, and Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia, published in 2001. He also is the photographer of Land of the Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering Vietnam (1997) and The Vietnamese Cookbook (1999). Raymer is currently completing a new book about the Indian Diaspora - a project that has taken him to more than 15 countries. Indiana University Press will publish India Abroad: Images of a Journey in 2007.

The National Press Photographers Association has named Raymer "Magazine Photographer of the Year" - one of photojournalism's most coveted awards. He has received a citation for excellence in foreign reporting from the Overseas Press Club and is a four-time winner of first-prize awards from the White House News Photographers' Association. Raymer also received a Fulbright Research Fellowship from the U.S. State Department.

Raymer has lectured on photojournalism, international newsgathering, and war correspondence in the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Poland, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. He also has appeared on the Today Show and as a panelist and lecturer on war correspondence at The Freedom Forum Newseum in Washington, DC. In the freelance world, National Geographic Image Collection, Corbis, Asia Images Group, and World Picture News market Raymers work.

Fred Shook

Fred Shook is a consulting scriptwriter and researcher for Terranova Pictures' productions and related products. 

Mr. Shook is a television news advisor and trainer for a wide cross section of U.S. and international clients. He emphasizes compelling writing, reporting, presentation and production methods; in-depth newscast analysis; market evaluations; and news marketing and promotion. 

Mr. Shook has conducted more than 300 television news seminars for U.S. and international clients, working with reporters, photojournalists, producers, editors, and management to implement more effective storytelling approaches and communication practices.

Mr. Shook established the broadcast journalism program at Colorado State University, one of the 24 programs nationally accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism and Mass Communication. His professional experience encompasses television reporting, writing, production, television news photography, video editing, and production. For the past 19 years, Mr. Shook has taught and worked nationally and internationally as a television writer, producer, consultant, and as a director and editor for commercial television organizations, corporations, and government agencies, including work in Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Fiji, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sri Lanka, and Africa.

He has been a member of the faculty to the annual National Press Photographers Association Television News Video Workshop, which serves an international clientele, since 1984. Mr. Shook has written Television News Writing: Captivating an Audience, Longman Inc., White Plains, New York (1994); Television Field Production and Reporting, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., White Plains, New York (third edition 2000); The Broadcast News Process (co-authored with Dan Lattimore and Jim Redmond), Morton Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado (sixth edition 2001); and The Process of Electronic News Gathering, Morton Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado, 1982.

Mr. Shook has written for "Discovery News," a science-based news magazine program airing on the Discovery Channel; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agency for International Development (AID); Soil Conservation Service (SCS); Department of Health and Human Services; and the Consortium for International Development. 

Recognized by Sigma Delta Chi as "Journalism Educator of the Year" in Colorado, he was also twice chosen "Journalism Professor of the Year." He also is recipient of the National Press Photographer's Association J. Winton Lemen National Fellowship Award for his contributions to television photojournalism. 

Before joining the faculty at Colorado State, Mr. Shook was a news writer, reporter, photographer, editor, and producer at KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to joining KMBC, he was a scriptwriter, cinematographer, and editor with the Department of Extension Radio-Television at Kansas State University. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism/broadcasting from Kansas State University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.  

Laura Ungar

Laura Ungar, 39, has been The Courier-Journal's medical writer since 2004. In her 17 years as a journalist in Kentucky, Delaware and Connecticut, her stories have won national, regional and local awards from organizations such as the Associated Press Managing Editors association, the National Press Women's Association, the Chesapeake Associated Press Editors and the Louisville Society of Professional Journalists.

She has also earned fellowships from the National Press Foundation and the International Center for Journalists.. Major projects have examined Kentucky's poor health, black-lung disease and a young mother's fight against breast cancer. She lives in Louisville with her husband, son and daughter.