AP Photo of the Month: January 2012
** WISCONSIN JANUARY PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Hallis Mailen, of Madison, Wis., participates in a rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in Madison. Opponents of Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as many signatures Tuesday as required to force a recall election, but still face the challenge of transforming [...]
Green Bay Press-Gazette seeks intern
The Green Bay Press-Gazette is looking for qualified candidates to fill it’s 10-week paid summer photography internship. We are looking for a photographer comfortable in both still and video formats with some previous experience in photojournalism on the college level and familiarity with photo and video editing software. Primary responsibilities include shooting photographs and videos [...]
Appleton Post-Crescent seeks intern
The Post-Crescent photo department located in Appleton, Wis., is offering a paid, 10-week internship for a visual journalist during Summer 2012. We are looking for candidates with strong journalism skills who have an ability to generate daily and long-term story ideas for both print and web publication. Our emphasis is on covering local news and [...]
2011 POY “Contest Central”
It’s that time of the year! Reach back into your archives and pull out your best images of 2011 for WNPA’s 2011 POY Contest. Contest deadline is: Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Below are links the PDF forms and rules/information packet. Read them carefully as this year there are new filenaming requirements and a new online [...]
AP Photo of the Month: December 2011
** WISCONSIN DECEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** Tom and Cathy Hannes, enjoy an up-close view of a seasonal display at the Holiday Fantasy of Lights in Olin-Turville Park, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 in Madison, Wis. The couple, who reside nearby in Madison, take occasional walks through the annual exhibit, periodically stopping to capture photographs [...]
Help needed: WNPA producing “Best of 2011″ for WNA
WNPA is producing a multimedia presentation showcasing the best of Wisconsin photojournalism in 2011. It will be shown during dinner at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s annual convention on Thursday evening, Feb. 23, 2012, in Madison. This is a fantastic opportunity for us to promote quality photojournalism. All Wisconsin photojournalists are welcome to enter. We need [...]
No citations for Wentz-Graff
According to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, photographer Kristyna Wentz-Graff will not be given citations stemming from her Nov. 2 arrest while she was documenting a rally connected with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Wentz-Graff is the second journalist arrested this year by the Milwaukee Police Department. Charges against Clint Fillinger of Fox [...]
Milwaukee drops charges against Fillinger
Clint Fillinger, a FOX 6 photojournalist arrested in September while covering a house fire in Milwaukee, is no longer being charged for resisting or obstructing an officer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Nov. 2 arrest of Kristyna Wentz-Graff, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photojournalist, is apparently still being reviewed by the Milwaukee city attorney’s office. [...]
WNPA Board plans 2012 activities
The WNPA Board, along with contest chairs, the membership chair and other volunteers, met Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Appleton to discuss the following items: Clip and POY contests Membership expansion, record-keeping, and our dues payment process Advocacy efforts WNPA’s involvement in the 2012 Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s Annual Convention WNPA’s own 2012 convention Doug Sundin [...]
AP Photo of the Month: November 2011
** WISCONSIN NOVEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Michael Dummas embraces his girlfriend, Veronica Bogard, during a visit to the grave site of her step-brother, Jason Wildfong, at Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the Town of Dover, Wis., on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Wildfong was killed while serving in Kuwait on March 12, [...]
Board to meet Dec. 12 in Appleton
WNPA’s Board members and other organization volunteers will be meeting to start planning the 2012 Convention and discuss involvement in the WNA Conference, the 2011 POY contests, and growing our membership. The meeting will take place on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, at 7:30pm in the boardroom of The Post~Crescent in Appleton.
‘Shutter’ exhibit to feature Hauck, Miyazaki
The UW-Milwaukee Union will host an opening reception for it’s photography exhibit, ‘Shutter’ on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The reception will run from 5-8 p.m., followed by a gallery talk by Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times. Milwaukee’s own Darren Hauck and Kevin Miyazaki are featured in the show, as are Davidson, Alejandro Chaskielberg, [...]
AP Photo of the Month: October 2011
** WISCONSIN OCTOBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH **A young man reads the obituary of two-year-old Donnasia Jackson at Jackson’s funeral service at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Racine, Wis., on Monday, October 31, 2011. Jackson died in the hospital on October 20, a day after the child allegedly suffered multiple abuses from her mother’s [...]
Editorial: Giving victims a voice
by Mark Hertzberg, The Journal Times (Racine) We have been covering a very disturbing domestic abuse case. I learned that the defendant’s former wife would be testifying today. We normally do not identify victims of abuse or assault, but because she now lives across the country and the defendant knows who she is, I asked [...]
Flynn to meet with media outlets Wednesday
UPDATE 11/9/2011 4:19 p.m.: WNPA has heard that today’s private meeting between media representatives and Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn was very productive. While we are very pleased to see that things seem to be heading in “the right direction,” we aren’t yet considering the issues “resolved.” We will continue to offer our recommendations and [...]
Milwaukee mayor speaks out in support of Wentz-Graff
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee, said Thursday that it was “very clear to me that she was a photojournalist…I very much support her First Amendment rights to be there.” With that article is a new photograph that has surfaced of Wentz-Graff being arrested. It shows clearly that she [...]
UPDATE: Flynn to seek meeting with media
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting this afternoon that Ed Flynn, Milwaukee’s chief of police, said in a news conference this morning that he will be inviting media representatives to talk about police policy and preventing incidents in the future. Read the full story here. This comes after the recent arrests of two Milwaukee photojournalists: [...]
Milwaukee police claim ignorance, WNPA sends letter
Milwaukee Police are claiming they didn’t know Kristyna Wentz-Graff, left, was a photojournalist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel until she arrived at the downtown police station. That’s what Anne Schwartz, Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn’s PR manager, had to say to the media after Wentz-Graff was arrested along with two protesters in a UW-Milwaukee-area march [...]
WNPA’s public statement on the arrest of Wentz-Graff
The Wisconsin News Photographers Association finds today’s arrest of Kristyna Wentz-Graff entirely unacceptable. This is the second time this year that Milwaukee Police officers have arrested a photographer legally going about their job. It is time for the Milwaukee Police to recognize that photography is not a crime. Journalists provide a public service, but in [...]
BREAKING: Journal Sentinel’s Wentz-Graff arrested
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photojournalist Kristyna Wentz-Graff was among three people arrested by the Milwaukee Police Department today as she covered a rally connected with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Wentz-Graff was photographing the arrest of a protester who was participating in a march near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Shortly after that initial arrest, police grabbed [...]
AP Photo of the Month – September 2011
** WISCONSIN SEPTEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Firefighter Thomas Mahar is bent over as he catches his breath after climbing one round of nine stories of stairs , Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, at a building in Wausau, Wis. Mahar, and other firefighters and area residents were honoring the firefighters that died in the Sept. 11 [...]
Harry Kemp, 78
Harry Kemp, a Milwaukee photographer, died this week at the age of 78. Kemp did work for the Milwaukee Community Journal, the Milwaukee Courier, the Milwaukee Times and the Milwaukee Brewers. He also did work as a freelance and commercial photographer. Read Kemp’s obituary by Ami Rabideau Silvers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
WNPA receives reply from Milwaukee chief of police
WNPA has received a response to its letter sent last week regarding the arrest of Clint Fillinger, a photojournalist at Fox 6 in Milwaukee. The letter is from the Milwaukee Police Department and is signed personally by chief of police Edward A. Flynn. Read it here: MPD’s Response Letter 9/26/2011 Related Stories: WNPA sends letter [...]
WNPA sends letter to Milwaukee Police Chief
On behalf of the organization, WNPA Secretary Michael P. King has sent a letter to Milwaukee Police Chief Edward A. Flynn regarding the mistreatment of WITI Fox 6 photojournalist Clint Fillinger by Milwaukee Police sergeants. The letter was also sent to Anne Schwartz (Flynn’s public relations manager), the Milwaukee Police and Fire Commission, Mayor Tom [...]