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Category: Behind The Viewfinder

Ethics breach disqualifies 2014 World Press Photo entries

| February 14, 2014 | Reply

More than nine percent of 2014 World Press Photo finalists were disqualified for digital manipulation ruled outside the bounds of ethical photojournalism, the New York Times reports.

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Final downhold: Trailblazing ex-UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas dead at 92

Final downhold: Trailblazing ex-UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas dead at 92

| July 23, 2013 | Reply

Some have quipped Helen Thomas is probably now landing an exclusive interview with God. I pray my former UPI colleague doesn’t run into any access problems.

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Photography tips for shooting NASCAR & other motorsports

Photography tips for shooting NASCAR & other motorsports

| July 4, 2013 | Reply

A roundup of photography tips for shooting NASCAR and other motorsports from experienced professional sports photographers (including me).

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Paolopocalypse now? Magnum photographer’s journalistic ethics called into question

Paolopocalypse now? Magnum photographer’s journalistic ethics called into question

| February 25, 2013 | 1 Reply

Paolo Pellegrin’s ham-fisted vision of gun violence in America damages his credibility and calls into question his journalistic ethics.

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Reflecting on the life and death of Ed Reinke

Reflecting on the life and death of Ed Reinke

| October 18, 2012 | Reply

It’s hard to believe the Kentucky photojournalism community lost AP photographer Ed Reinke one year ago today.

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Yum! KFC notches a Kentucky Fried record

Yum! KFC notches a Kentucky Fried record

| August 22, 2010 | 1 Reply

Publicity stunts cooked up by corporate PR firms don’t usually excite me, but who could pass up seeing a 7′ bucket of KFC fried chicken in Louisville? Not me.

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Welcome to Thunderdome, I mean Fancy Farm: My first visit to Kentucky’s premier political event

| August 12, 2010 | Reply

Pork may be king in the world of Kentucky politics, but it takes a back seat to mutton on the first Saturday of each August in Fancy Farm, Ky.

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Courting Tea Party support, first 2011 GOP ticket for KY governor announced

| July 29, 2010 | Reply

Courting Tea Party support, Louisville businessman Phil Moffett announced his GOP candidacy for governor of Kentucky today in Lexington. I covered it.

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