Northwest Video Workshop

Boyd has earned national recognition for his work as a reporter, including this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature reporting, his second in two years. This year Boyd also received his sixth National Edward R. Murrow Award, his second Gabriel Award, and his third NPPA Special Award for reporting. In 2006 Boyd was awarded
a National Emmy for feature reporting and the National Headliner Grand Award.

Boyd grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Prior to his arrival at KARE, he spent time at WSAW-TV in Wausau, KETV in Omaha and WITI-TV in Milwaukee. Boyd and his wife Sheri have two sons, Sam and Matt, in college.

Anne Herbst, KUSA — Denver, CO.
Anne shoots like a girl. What does that mean, exactly? It doesn’t mean that she has a horrible jump shot—in fact, she dominates at “horse” on the basketball court. What Anne thinks it means is that she shoots and edits with her heart and her gut. She believes that gorgeous shots of sunflowers and rainbows don’t make for perfect stories -— perfect moments do.Anne has been shooting for about six years—some of them in graduate school at CU- Boulder, some of them at KWCH in Wichita, KS, and the rest at KUSA in Denver, CO.

During this time she’s won some Emmys, many regional and national NPPA awards— including the 2009 NPPA Photographer of the Year for the western region—and a regional Murrow—but the coolest thing has been being a member of the staff that won the NPPA’s 2008 Station of the Year.

At KUSA, Anne not only shoots and edits, but regularly writes and produces her own stories. She thinks even press conference stories can be a blast, and loves doing stories on interesting people with odd hobbies. Anne thinks it’s important to try to have the most memorable story in the newscast—and also the loudest laugh in the newsroom. It doesn’t hurt to have a sweet jump shot either.

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Darren Durlach, WBFF – Baltimore, MD

Darren realized in the 3rd grade that his dreams of becoming an astronaut were unlikely when his teacher told him that math was involved. After a brief denial period he set his sights on the right side of his brain and after graduating from Radford University he started as a Production Assistant at NBC 29 in Charlottesville, Va and soon convinced the Chief Photographer to let him shoot.

After attending a career changing NPPA workshop in Norman Oklahoma, Darren got a job as a Photojournalist at Fox 45 in Baltimore where he still works and is honored to work with the best news people in the country.

Darren’s greatest career achievement was winning back to back NPPA Ernie Crisp Photographer of the Year Awards for 2009 and 2010. The best part of winning is getting the chance to hear from amazing speakers and enthusiastic storytellers at conventions around the country. Darren has been honored with 11 Emmys and numerous NPPA and AP awards. He was also named the 2008 and 2009 b-roller of the Year.

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Doug Burgess, KING – Seattle, Wash.
One of Doug Burgess’ viewers recently commented that he thought of television news as an open sewer pipe flowing into his living room. That is until he saw a story Doug had produced with reporter John Sharify. That viewer’s perception is now forever changed. Doug of course is happy with the change.

Doug likes to do stories that are unique and memorable. “I think our job is to inform and entertain the viewer with stories that achieve the highest level of production value and storytelling.”Doug Burgess’ career has spanned 22 years. In that time he’s worked mostly for Texas television stations.

In March of 2003, Doug was one of the first Gulf War II journalists to be embedded with the marines as they traveled from Kuwait City to Baghdad. He returned to Fallujah in 2005 to cover Iraq’s first free election. He’s also been to the West Bank and the Pakistan border to produce stories about war refugees and terrorism. And after the World Trade Center collapsed in September of 2001, WFAA sent Doug.

Along the way Doug has picked up dozens of awards for his work. He’s a 7-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year and a runner-up for the NPPA national Ernie Crisp TV Photographer of the Year. He has 39 Emmy awards and 8 Edward R. Murrow awards including 2 National Murrows for videography and documentary.

Simply stated, stories that are shot and edited beautifully and told in the most interesting way is Doug production goal. “I want the viewer to be affected emotionally, to go away from the newscast with a new, hopefully better opinion of TV news.”

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Steve Dowd, KING — Seattle, Wash.
Steve Dowd has worked for 33 years at KING-TV with the last 12 of those as Chief Photographer. He has a four digit NPPA number. “So I’ve been around for a while.” Steve says with a chuckle.

He is well known in the Seattle market for quality and promoting the importance of content in TV news storytelling. His enthusiasm is contagious among his colleagues at KING.Steve has participated in three National Press Photographers Association Station of the Year awards along with an Alfred duPont Silver Baton Award.

His first national NPPA award came in 1982 to be followed with multiple regional NPPA awards. Other awards include two Champion Tuck awards, multiple regional Sigma Delta Chi awards, multiple regional Emmys, an Angel award, an Arby award, Washington AP award and International Monitor award finalist.

Projects of note include a documentary on the decline of the timber industry, a series documenting poverty on Seattle’s affluent east side, a series documenting the work of non-governmental organizations in North Vietnam before normalization of relations with the US, another series of Vietnam stories documenting political normalization and the first visit of a US governor to the region and a documentary on the efforts of relief workers in Albania aiding the refugees of the war in Kosovo.

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Danny Gawlowski, The Seattle Times — Seattle, Wash.

Danny is the Video Editor at The Seattle Times and was part of the team that was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for their coverage of police officer slayings and the manhunt for the killer. It was the first time that online news reporting was honored in a Pulitzer citation.

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.

This will be Danny’s second time working the Northwest Video Workshop.

Overman also serves as past President of the National Press Photographers Association, representing more than 7,000 newspaper, magazine and television photographers.

Tony is a founding trainer of the Northwest Video Workshop.

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 because it’s his habit to put forth 100% every day. Last year he won POY for the Western region (General Pool) in the newly restructured NPPA Quarterly contest. Austin often produces “nat-sound” photo essays, relying on the story subjects themselves to tell the story.

Kurt is a founding trainer of the Northwest Video Workshop.

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.

This will be Adam’s second time working the Northwest Video Workshop.

John Sharify is currently a contributing correspondent for KING 5 News in Seattle, and the General Manager of Seattle Community Colleges Television. In 2010, Sharify was honored with 4 Emmys for his work at KING, including the top News Reporter Emmy.

John is a 37 time Emmy award winner with 6 National Edward R. Murrow Awards including the 2008, 2007, and 2004 National Murrows for Writing, which honors the top broadcast news writer in the country. He spent 18 years at KOMO 4 News delivering his signature stories that lifted the spirits of Seattle area viewers. Sharify started his broadcasting career in N.Y.C. at WPIX TV nearly 30 years ago.

Sharify served as President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences from 2006-2010. A graduate of Princeton University, Sharify went on to get his Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Directing from Columbia University. He’s currently working on a documentary about the Holocaust called “The Boys of Terezin”.

Sharify fine-tunes his craft by presenting workshops for broadcast journalists. He was on the faculty of the NPPA’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop in Lexington, Ky. in 2006, and 2007. The last two years, he’s presented storytelling workshops to broadcast journalists in Denmark.

Scott believes a news organization will achieve its greatest potential when its individuals operate within a unique confluence of refined technique, innovative ideas, the desire for improvement and abundant energy. Camaraderie with competition leads to quality product.

Scott’s strength as a journalist is deeply entangled with his ability to connect with his subjects, and at the same time, capture their essence in moving pictures and compelling sound. As a result, his viewers appreciate a better understanding of his subjects’ lives. That speaks to Scott’s core belief – news is all about community. “One of our primary responsibilities we have as journalists should be to facilitate acceptance between people of different perspectives.” says Scott.

KTUU-TV in his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska is where he began his television career in 1992. Since then Scott’s also served as a photojournalist for television stations in Minnesota, Oregon and Washington.

He currently works at KING-TV in Seattle. Scott has won a dozen Emmys, five Regional Photographer of the Year titles and twice the National Press Photographers Association named him the Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year.

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 four years ago, working as the news producer at the Yakima Herald-Republic.

During his career TJ has set out to find practical ways to bridge broadcasting, print and digital media by working across several departments in newsrooms.  He’s drawn to problem solving in the field but is truly at home with a camera, smart-phone and laptop at his disposal.

TJ started the Northwest Video workshop in 2007 to help local photojournalists, resulting in it’s third incarnation in 2010. The workshop was conceived to draw journalists from diverse backgrounds to learn about video storytelling, shooting and editing.

TJ also serves as the National Press Photographers Association’s, Region 11 Chair, sits on the NPPA Executive Committee and maintains a mobile journalism blog at whereis.tj.