Tony Overman
Tony has been a staff photographer at The Olympian since 1997. He is a two-time Region 11 Photographer of the Year (1994 & 2004), winner of the 2005 Reid Blackburn Award for Outstanding Feature Photography and First Place winner in the 2006 Best Of Photojournalism Enterprise Picture Story.
Overman also serves as past President of the National Press Photographers Association, representing more than 9,000 newspaper, magazine and television photographers.
Colin Mulvany
After 20 years as a staff photojournalist for The Spokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany made the transition to Internet storytelling by becoming a multimedia producer for his newspaper’s online department.For the last five years, Mulvany has been producing video feature stories and audio slideshows. He also has a steady following on his blog masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com. Mulvany has guided his newspaper’s video workflow and multimedia story development.
Mulvany has been honored for his photography and multimedia in the Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, Society of Newspaper Design, and the National Headliners Awards, NPPA Monthly Multimedia Contest to name a few. In his spare time, he teaches photojournalism at a local community college and is the National Press Photographers Association Monthly Multimedia Contest chairman.
Anna King
Anna calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University, Tri–Cities.
Her stories play on about a dozen public radio stations throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. She mostly covers the Mid–Columbia region, from nuclear reactors to Mexican-style rodeos. King is a three-time C.B. Blethen Memorial Award winner and a former print journalist.
She’s was also a contributing author the Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest. She left the west side to attend Washington State University and spent an additional two years studying language and culture in Italy.
Danny Gawlowski
Danny is the Video Editor at The Seattle Times. He grew up in Hell, Michigan and attended Ball State University, studying photojournalism and anthropology.
He interned at several newspapers across the country before working as a freelance photographer in Beijing and later a staff photographer at The Bellingham Herald. Danny lives in West Seattle with his wife, Josie Liming. |
Kurt Austin
Kurt has been a television photojournalist for the past 26 years, the last 20 at KGW-TV in Portland, Ore. 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 19 Seattle-area Emmy awards and was named the Region 11 TV Photographer of the Year six times. Austin often produces “nat-sound” photo essays, relying on the story subjects themselves to tell the story.
Adam Tischler
Adam is currently with KING5 in Seattle. He started his career in New England then moved to New York to work with NBC. Tischler moved to NBC in San Francisco to produce special project stories. Six years ago he moved to Portland, Ore. to revamp Northwest Cable News’ bureau there as the Bureau Chief.
Camera work called to him though and he returned to the field before being transferred to sister station KING5.Tischler has won multiple NPPA and AP awards including Northern New England’s AP Photographer of the Year. He shot and directed a feature length documentary that was an official selection of the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam.
Most recently Tischler began working towards matching NPPA style and practices with the aggressive pace of local news. Believe or not, he thinks he’s onto something.
TJ Mullinax
TJ has been working in online, multimedia, print and broadcast news production for over eight years. Since his early days in journalism at Washington State University’s Daily Evergreen, he has been a new media junkie. He started his career in Portland working as an online news producer at KATU Television covering diverse events from the 2004 presidential election to the occasional tsunami coverage.
He returned to his hometown about three years ago, working as the news producer at the Yakima Herald-Republic. TJ works across several departments in the newsroom and special publications depending on what needs arise, but feels most at home with a camera or laptop in his hand.
He coordinated the first and second Northwest Video workshops, drawing journalists from diverse backgrounds to learn about video shooting, editing and storytelling. TJ also serves as the National Press Photographers Association’s, Region 11 associate director and maintains a new media blog at wearemytown.com. |
Special Thanks
The 2009 Northwest Video Workshop would not have succeeded without the support of Canon’s Mike Mount and Jim Rose, Apple’s Yan Shvalb and volunteers such as Matt Pferschy, Mai Hoang, Dustan Aadland and staff from the Yakima Herald-Republic. Thank you.
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