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• 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  

• 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.

• On Recession Road by Michael S. Williamson (The Washington Post)

  Washington Post photographer Michael S. Williamson has been traveling the United States for a story on the recession, using only his smartphone camera to document his travels. We are more than impressed.   View the essay on the Washington Post website: Michael S. Williamson’s On Recession Road (Click here).

• Sole Man by Jennifer Zdon (Times-Picayune)

  Sole Man Times-Picayune photojournalist Jennifer Zdon has a well done multimedia piece mixing video and stills about the dying art of the shoe shine man. It is embedded here courtesy of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Direct link here: The Times-Picayune

• Newspapers Reflect Historic Event

  Newspaper front pages around the world commemorate the historic election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. See more front pages at the Newseum’s Web site. Or all of them at once here.

• Homeless not Helpless – NPPA Clip Winner (James Gregg/Arizona Daily Star)

  James Gregg, photojournalist with the Arizona Daily Star won first place in January for a wonderful story about a homeless man in Tucson. You can see the full story on the National Press Photographer’s web site at www.nppa.org.

• Remember Me by Preston Gannaway (Concord Monitor)

  Preston Gannaway’s Pulitzer prize-winning photo story about Carolynne St. Pierre and her family as she faces death from a rare and aggressive illness while struggling to maintain a family unit.  View the multimedia presentation at The Concord Monitor. Please be patient, it sometimes takes a minute to load.

• Holding Fast in a Churning City by Todd Heisler (New York Times)

  New York Times photographer Todd Heisler has a nice piece of work on city neighborhoods that are changing underneath their long-time residents. View the slideshow at www.nytimes.com.

• 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 [...]

• The People’s Doctor by Greg Kahn (Naples Daily News)

  Greg Kahn, with the Naples Daily News, won 1st place in the National Press Photographer Association’s monthly clip contest feature story category for the month of February (Region 6). His story of Dr. Melanio Villarosa, a pediatrician who lives in Naples, but built his practice in Immokalee because he said he was “called by God,” [...]