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• Rain Drops – NPPA Clip Winner (Steve Russell/Toronto Star)

  Photojournalist Steve Russell of the Toronto Star had this wonderful first place winner in the feature category of the National Press Photographers monthly clip contest for region 2. Everyone who has worked at newspapers has to shoot the dreaded weather shot, but every now and then we are able to find something really interesting in [...]

• Christmas Around the World (Via the Sacramento Bee)

  The Sacramento Bee’s photographer’s blog has some really pretty images of the Christmas holiday being celebrated around the world. View the images on the Sacrament Bee website.

• A Family’s Exodus From Slavery (Washington Post)

  Michelle Obama’s great-great-grandfather, Jim Robinson, worked as a slave on the Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown, S.C. Many of the slave quarters on the plantation still stand untouched and alone on the property. View the Washington Post Story: A Family’s Exodus from Slavery  

• Searching for a Job (The Frame – Sacramento Bee)

  The Frame, a photo blog of the Sacramento Bee, has assembled a collection of images showing the effects of rising unemployment on job fairs across the country. View the images on The Frame.

• Final Edition – The Rocky Ceases Publication

  On February 27th, 2009 the Rocky Mountain News, 55 days short of its 150th birthday, closed. A 21 minute video feature about the closing of the paper appears on its website and is embedded below. Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. For more go to their website at www.rockymountainnews.com

• Remembering Ricky by Kristyna Wentz-Graff (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

  For Kristen Nelson, a widow at 20, the story of her husband’s sacrifice in Iraq cuts two ways. She’s immensely proud of his service. But on her worst days, she misses him almost unbearably.  View the multimedia presentation on the MIlwaukee Journal Sentinel website.

• Animal Views (Washington Post)

  OK, this is a bit on the lighter side, but we don’t care, it’s fun! Daron Dean’s image, shot for The St. Augustine Record, and picked up on the Washington Post’s weekly animal views feature via AP is one of many great images being shown. View the Washington Post’s Animal Views.

• The Repairman by Christine Baker (The Patriot News)

  Christine Baker’s 1st place winning audio slideshow, in the National Press Photographers Monthly Multimedia Contest for August, about the dying trade of the repairman. See it here.

• A Resting Place at Last by Nikki Kahn (Washington Post)

  Two decades ago on Dec. 1, the first World AIDS Day drew attention to the global epidemic. Within two years, D.C. family doctor David Hilfiker, who had been working and living with the homeless, opened Joseph’s House in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after noticing that an increasing number of them had been [...]

• Photographer’s Journal – Following Obama by Damon Winter (New York Times)

  New York Times staff photojournalist Damon Winter has a narrated multimedia presentation on the Time web site from his coverage of Senator Obama on the campaign trail. View Damon Winter’s images on the New York Times website.