Buckeye Visualist

Part 3 of 3 On this episode of the  Buckeye Visualist,  host  Lori King  traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for the 73rd annual Ohio News Photographers Association Convention, where she spoke to ONPA leaders, POY winners, the keynote speaker and a Sony Electronics rep.  This is  Part 3 , and it features Amanda Arrick, the Sony rep for the convention. Arrick is the senior manager f...

Part 2 of 3 On this episode of the  Buckeye Visualist,  host  Lori King  traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for the 73rd annual Ohio News Photographers Association Convention, where she spoke to ONPA leaders, POY winners, the keynote speaker and a Sony Electronics rep.  This is  Part 2 , and it features incoming ONPA officers Kristin Bauer , the new treasurer, and secretary Lisa S...

Part 1 of 3 On this episode of the  Buckeye Visualist,  host  Lori King  traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for the 73rd annual Ohio News Photographers Association Convention, where she spoke to ONPA leaders, POY winners, the keynote speaker and a Sony Electronics rep. This is Part 1 , and it features keynote speaker and light guru Terry Clark , who showed off his 50 Photographs/5...

On this episode of the  Buckeye Visualist,  host  Lori King  traveled to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio to talk with leaders of the NPPA/OU student group.  Our topic was photojournalism, of course, and why my four student podcast guests chose the EW Scripps School of Journalism for learning the craft of photojournalism. Listen as Zoe Cranfill , the president of NPPA/OU, vice president Charlie Nic...

On this short and sweet episode of the  Buckeye Visualist,  host  Lori King  talks with ONPA monthly clip contest co-chairs Jeremy Wadsworth and Becca Benson, who are also coworkers at the Toledo Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. Our topic is the 44-year-old clip contest. Jeremy and Becca fill us in on who can enter, deadlines for submission, and why you should enter. They are are seeking judges, s...

On this episode of the  Buckeye Visualist,  host Lori King talks about the power of visuals with Signal Akron's Sue Zake, editor-in-chief, and multimedia reporter and producer Kassi Filkins .  Our topic is  Signal Akron , a new nonprofit newsroom startup in Akron, Ohio. Sue, a former Akron Beacon multimedia journalist and editor, is leading that small but mighty newsroom, which launched in Dec...

On this episode of the  Buckeye Visualist, we talk to Arizona freelance photographer Arianna Grainey, an Ohio native who now covers sports and politics in Arizona.  Host Lori King leads a discussion about Arianna's start in college and high school sports, and how she got into shooting political content for the City of Tempe.  Listen as the Arizona State journalism/political science graduate di...

This episode of the  Buckeye Visualist is dedicated to NewsGuild-CWA union members who bravely fight for the working rights of journalists in our newsrooms. Host Lori King leads a discussion about the power of unions with three photojournalists who have Ohio connections, either through birth or employment: Kent, Ohio native Jenna Watson, of the Indy Star and president of the Indy NewsGuild; Alexan...

In this special  ONPA Convention  Episode (Part II) of the  Buckeye Visualist , host Lori King sits down with longtime ONPA leaders Kimberly Barth and Bob DeMay as they revisit the history of the Ohio News Photographers Association: When it was founded and where it is now. We will also hear from #Ohio University photojournalism professor Stan Alost and two of his photojournalism students. They dis...

In this special ONPA Convention Episode (Part I) of the  Buckeye Visualist , host Lori King speaks with LA Times roving foreign correspondent Marcus Yam, who took us back to when and where his award-winning photojournalism career began -- at his school newspaper at the University at Buffalo, which led him to his first photojournalism job at the Buffalo News. Formally of Malaysia, Yam's long an...

In this episode of the Buckeye Visualist , freelance filmmaker, photographer and Eddie Adams Workshop 2022 alumni Christy Frank has a frank discussion with host Lori King about freelancing, filmmaking and having a business sense. Listen as they chat about being a woman visual storyteller in a man's world; how resilience and persistence pays off; and how she manages to hold down two non-visual jobs...

In this episode of the Buckeye Visualist , guest Shane Flanigan opens up with host Lori King about his recent job loss at ThisWeek Community News in Columbus. Shane and the entire staff at ThisWeek were let go on Jan. 10 after media company Gannett went from publishing 24 different small-town community newspapers to literally none .  Listen as they discuss news deserts and hometown coverage v...

On this episode of the Buckeye Visualist podcast, guest Dale Omori and host Lori King go down memory lane as he drops a few legacy names from his past stints at the Kettering Oakwood Times (Kettering, Ohio) and the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Dale is product of Bowling Green State University (Ohio), and earned a photojournalism degree under the tutelage of the late, great Jim Gordon. He talks about h...

On this episode of the Buckeye Visualist, guest Stephen Zenner opens up with host Lori King about his journey from being an artist who was inspired by the mixed media in Pink Floyd's The Wall , to his former missionary work with refugees, to his current role as a multimedia journalist for the Toledo Blade newspaper. We are also going to get into his recent coverage of refugees in Eastern Europe an...

On this episode of the Buckeye Visualist, guest Scott Doelling represents the television photojournalists in Buckeye Land!  Doelling, the recently promoted director of photography at WBNS-TV in Columbus, is the 2021 ONPA TV Photographer of the Year. He also won that distinguished honor in 2015.  The Ohio transplant chats about the lucky break that landed him his first TV job; that decisi...

In this episode of The Buckeye Visualist, Columbus Dispatch photographer Barb Perenic talks about her decision to go back to school, and how being a grad student at Kent State University has inspired her to share what she knows to fellow journalists and students. Perenic, a staff photojournalist at the Columbus Dispatch for nine years, also chats about parenthood; how she respects her journalist a...

This episode of the Buckeye Visualist spotlights long-time ONPA member JD Pooley , a multimedia journalist at the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune.  On this show: Pooley shares how he used his dad's Pentax film camera to cover car fires, protests and strikes ... while in high school! He's now 48, and said he's seen a lot of changes in the photojournalism industry over the span of his career - B...

This episode of the Buckeye Visualist is dedicated to photojournalism students, so it makes perfect sense that Ohio University photojournalism student Erin Burk is our featured guest this month. But the 2021 ONPA Chuck Scott Photographer of the Year winner wasn't alone ... she had a small audience join her in the Zoom room! Podcast host Lori King also invited her Wayne State University (Detroit) p...

In this episode of The Buckeye Visualist, Cincinnati Enquirer photojournalist Meg Vogel talks about her decision to produce a video of Bengals fans from around the world documenting themselves celebrating the moment they realized their beloved team was finally going to the Super Bowl. Vogel collected more than 300 video clips, then produced a 3:20-minute video showing highlights of ecstatic fans c...

In this episode of The Buckeye Visualist, Columbus Dispatch photojournalist Kyle Robertson shares his strategy for remaining the ONPA clip contest king. Robertson just earned his seventh clip contest POY title in a row , so we are very fortunate to hear his fresh take on how he did it and why he thinks everyone should enter the clip contest.  Kyle, who's been with the Dispatch for nearly 17 y...

In this inaugural episode of The Buckeye Visualist podcast, host Lori King chats with Columbus Dispatch photographer Josh Bickel and Andrew Dolph, with the Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia. Josh is the current president of ONPA, and Dolph takes over as the association's new president this spring. Listen as we dive into their take on being a photojournalist during Covid, preparing for annual pict...