![]() He currently owns his own business, Omori Media, and is dedicated to telling stories his own way gives advice to aspiring young storytellers and tauts the power of an organization like the Ohio News Photographer Association. Listen to our conversation as he also talks about his love of video, which led him from being a still photographer to a filmmaker. ![]() He talks about how Gordon took him into the pj program (when it existed) without a portfolio or photography experience, and confesses which grade he never earned from Gordon. On this episode of the Buckeye Visualist podcast, guest Dale Omori and host Lori King go down memory lane as he name drops a few legacy names from his past stints at the Kettering Oakwood Times (Kettering, Ohio) and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.ĭale is product of Bowling Green State University (Ohio), and earned a photojournalism degree under the tutelage of the late, great Jim Gordon. Got an idea for a podcast? Shoot Lori King an email at King: Twitter | Instagram | Website Alost also talks about how OU has cranked out more Pulitzer Prize winners than he can count, including Marcus Yam, the keynote speaker for the convention. They discuss the classes that prepare our future generation of storytellers. You will also hear from #Ohio University photojournalism professor Stan Alost and two of his photojournalism students. In Part II, ONPA leaders Kimberly Barth and Bob DeMay revisit the history of the Ohio News Photographers Association – when it was founded and where it is now. In the podcast, Yam is candid about his broken relationship with his family due to his career choice, living out of a suitcase for the past three years, and how the connection with people is more important than the technical stuff. His winning portfolio includes his work on the Gaza border. He also won the NPPA 2022 Photojournalist of the Year – Large Market. Not only did he show his amazing work, which included his stories documenting wildfires in California, the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the deadly landslide in Oso, Washington, and the fall of Afghanistan, which earned him his first solo Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography, he also made time for portfolio reviews. Yam was the keynote speaker at this year’s ONPA Convention in Columbus, Ohio. It includes multiple newspaper internships, a successful freelance gig at the New York Times and a short stint at the Seattle Times, where he won one of his three Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news photography. In this special ONPA Convention Episode (Part I) of the Buckeye Visualist, LA Times roving foreign correspondent Marcus Yam takes us back to when and where his award-winning photojournalism career began - at his school newspaper at the University at Buffalo, which led him to his first photojournalism job at the Buffalo News.įormally of Malaysia, Yam’s long and twisting journey to the LA Times is one of grit, perseverance and luck. ![]() The NewsGuild-CWA was founded in 1933, and now is composed of more than 25,000 journalists and others in 200 media organizations in the United States and Canada. ![]() ![]() Listen as three brave (yes, brave … it takes guts to fight against the hand that bites you) visual journalists discuss the benefits of being in a union the support system a union provides members and their families during a strike the bargaining power of collective action and how to form and maintain a union. It’s an illuminating conversation, and one we must continue to have as union members continually fight for their working rights in not only our newsrooms but everywhere : Starbucks, AUW, the Writers Guild of America, UPS. Host Lori King interviewed three photojournalists with Ohio connections, either through birth or employment: Kent, Ohio native Jenna Watson, of the Indy Star and president of the Indy NewsGuild Alexandra Wimley, currently on strike from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Kurt Steiss, who’s active with his union at the Toledo Blade. This episode of the Buckeye Visualist is dedicated to NewsGuild-CWA members who fight for the working rights of journalists and staff working in their newsrooms. ![]()
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