September/October 1998 Ohio News Photographer Page 2 Ohio News Photographer September/October 1998 NPPA Television Airborne seminar lands in Columbus ONPAOhio News Photographers Association The 1998 Airborne TV Seminar is c Working smarter as a team - before you poised for takeoff with stops in Columbus, leave the station, while you're in the field Ohio on December 4th and 5th and and while you're putting it all together. Board Chairman Bob DeMay Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday, c The NPPA Editor of the Year will offer tips Phone (330) 747-1471 December 6th. on what the Team can do to help an editor do "Making the TeamWork" is the theme. justice to your work. E-mail [email protected] Both photographers and reporters are c You'll hear insights about "writing with encouraged to attend this program, offered pictures." Marrying words and pictures to by the National Press Photographers make memorable stories. President Ed Suba, Jr. Foundation. c Pictures and sound as writing tools. Headliners include: Jonathan Malat - c Doing it all - what do photographers need Phone (800) 777-9477 NPPA Television Photographer of the Year to know? What do reporters need to know. E-mail not yet from KARE-TV in Minneapolis; Inge Gill - c Critiques of your work - suggestions for NPPA Editor of the Year from KCNC-TV in improving your stories for both reporters Denver; Kim Riemland (Reporter/anchor and photographers. Vice president (Still) Lisa Dutton KOMO-TV) and her husband Tim Griffis Bring your favorite reporter. Any (photojournalist KOMO-TV; Boyd Huppert, reporter accompanied by a photographer Phone (419) 724-6143 Reporter, from KARE-TV in Minneapolis. who is an NPPA member will be charged the E-mail not yet Online Registration is available at: $35 NPPA membership registration rate. http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa/tv/air98/98%20 Also, stations sending more than five people Reg_form.htm to the workshop will only be charged $30 Vice president (TV) Ron Strah Steve Sweitzer, seminar chairman and per person. Everyone's welcome. We offer past NPPA president writes: "TeamWork" is the same deal to editors, news directors, pro- Phone (216) 431-8888 the name of the game in TV news today - ducers or anyone else working in TV news. photographers and reporters working togeth- This workshop is about keeping the E-mail [email protected] er to make "GREAT TV." commitment, making deadlines and moving The 1998 Airborne TV Seminar will up in excellence. Learn new tricks, get your offer something for everyone. There will be batteries recharged and make new friends. Secretary David I. Andersen sessions for the Team, as well as break out Join us for a day to remember. Phone (216) 999-4156 sessions just for photographers and just for For more information contact the local reporters. And we won't ignore the folks chairman for the event, Tim Moushey at E-mail [email protected] interested in working as "one person bands." WBNS-TV in Columbus at (614) 460-3700. Among the highlights: Treasurer Kimberly Barth Phone (800) 777-9471 Pulitzer Publishing Co. to E-mail [email protected] purchase Troy Daily News Ohio News Photographer Pulitzer Publishing Company has of more than 11,000,daily and 13,000 Published by the Ohio News announced that it has reached an agreement Sunday. Photographers Association, Inc. in principle to purchase the Troy Daily News The Troy Daily News was acquired by and its Sunday publication, the Miami R. George Kuser in 1955. He retired in 1995 Valley Sunday News, in Troy, Ohio. and for the past three years the company has Terms of the tentative agreement were retained its independent ownership through Editor Bob DeMay not disclosed. The deal, subject to entry into Kuser family trusts, several local sharehold- a definitive acquisition agreement, is expect- ers and an ESOP (Employee Stock Phone (330) 448-6274 ed to close in early fall, at which time the Ownership Plan). E-mail [email protected] Troy Daily News and related publications "The decision to sell the paper was a would become part of the Pulitzer difficult one," said Joel H. Walker, president Community Newspapers group. and publisher of the Troy Daily News. "We Address letters to the editor at: Michael E. Pulitzer, chairman and chief kept the torch of independent ownership executive officer of Pulitzer, said, "This burning for a long time. "But things change, 1538 Cullinan Ave. acquisition would be an excellent fit with the and to keep pace with that change, you Masury, Ohio 44438 small to medium-sized market strategy we sometimes have to make decisions you intend to follow as we grow our new stand- would rather not have to make," he added. alone publishing company, Pulitzer Inc. "But when you do have to make the tough The Troy Daily News is the primary choices, you try to make the best choices. ONPA Online advertising medium in southern Miami And we feel we've done that with Pulitzer. http://www.ohio.net/~onpa/ County and, with its Miami Valley Weekly, "The company is highly respected in offers the only total market coverage for all our industry, knows the community newspa- of Miami County and most of Shelby per business because it owns several other Webmaster Mark A. Duncan County to the north. Revenues were approx- dailies like ours, and has the financial imately $7 million in 1997, including rev- strength to carry on the journalistic excel- Phone (216) 771-2172 enues from its commercial printing opera- lence we feel we've developed here over the tion. years." E-mail [email protected] The Troy Daily News, has a circulation September/October 1998 Ohio News Photographer Page 3 On the move In pursuit of Big Mac Susan Zake is the new Director of Photography at The Beacon Journal in Akron Mark McGwire single handily put enue and $600,000 circulation revenue the news media across the country into and poster sales within the span of a replacing Michael Good who has left the paper to overdrive during September in his pur- few days from special sections, extras pursue freelance work in the Seattle, WA area. suit of the single season home run and soaring single-copy sales. The prof- Zake had been working as the assignment editor record held by the late Roger Maris. it was not without planning but also The pursuit of recording history required lots of last-minute improvisa- at the paper. kept many very busy, made others lots tion. The Plain Dealer has filled three openings on of money and had still others breathing Initial plans called for special cov- the photography staff. New to the staff is John a sigh of relief. erage of each homer after McGwire got Kuntz who many may remember from his days On the busy side was Amy to 50 and a special edition if he reached Sancetta of the Associated Press. She 62. As interest built, another edition working in the Cleveland area years ago with his was one of six members of the AP team was added for homer number 61. father Ron Kuntz at UPI. that followed McGwire for ten games On Labor Day when McGwire hit Larry Hamel-Lambert will move from his and witnessed homers 58-62 and 66-70. number 61 in the first inning, there was position as night picture editor at the PD and As Sancetta tells it, “Every time plenty of time for the Post-Dispatch to the guy came to the plate, you absolute- get a special edition to the stadium return to the staff as a photographer. ly knew he was going to hit a home run. before the game ended, because much Also on board is Marvin Fong who had been It was really a rush.” of the material was already in the can. working at the Dayton Daily News. Her position was between the bag By the day of the record breaker, Joining the staff in Dayton is Lisa Powell who at third and the left field wall. “It made plans for the special were being revised for a good picture of his swing and fol- upward every several hours. had been working in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. low through since he almost always hit "The scene at the stadium was such NPPA Region 4 Director Greg Peters has left his home runs to left field. Even when that we could not get the papers off of his position at The Columbus Dispatch to become he didn't hit a homer, he seemed to give the vans to the hawkers," said Egger. us good pictures,” Sancetta said. "We sold them right out of the vans. Director of Photography at The State in Columbia, Her favorite moment was Then it was like a fire following fuel. SC. McGwire's joyous run around the bases The crowds followed us right down- Aimee Obidzinski, has left her position at after breaking Maris' record by hitting town to the paper, and we found our- The Vindicator and has moved to Middletown and number 62 on Sept. 8. selves selling directly out of the lobby." “I love that he was so caught up in The sighs of relief came from the is currently freelancing. She rejoins her husband the moment that he missed first base media in Cincinnati who were glad that David Colabine who had recently left WYTV-TV and had to be pointed back to it by the the scene in St Louis did not play out in in Youngstown to join the staff at WKRC-TV in first base coach-it as a moment we see their town which was McGwire’s next Cincinnati.