Scott Anger

Scott Anger is the Director of Video for The Los Angeles Times where he oversees a staff of six, full-time video journalists who produce original, character-driven stories. Before joining the organization in December 2007, he worked as an award-winning, independent video journalist, photographer and documentary film producer.

Gail Fisher

Gail Fisher is Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic magazine, recently made the move from the world of newspapers to magazines. Formerly senior photo editor of projects for the Los Angeles Times, she covered social issues during the course of her career throughout the world. She has traveled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South and Central America.

Her editing skills and photography have been recognized internationally with numerous awards, judging, teaching and speaking engagements. In 2006, she was awarded Best of Photojournalism Picture Editor of the Year, in 2005, runner-up. In 2006 Altered Oceans series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism, which Gail was the photo editor. And, in 2005, the investigative King Drew project was honored the Pulitzer Public Service award in which she was also part of the team. The Los Angeles Times was awarded the Angus McDougall Excellence in Picture Editing from Pictures of the Year International three times in the last five years along with several other international and national awards. Fisher played a role in editing many of these projects.

Some of her accomplishments as a photojournalist include the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged, the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Harry Chapin World Hunger Award and twice won the Community Awareness Award in 1996 and 2002 from the National Press Photographers Pictures of the Year. She has also received recognition for several online projects with her involvement as an editor and photojournalist.

At the Los Angeles Times, she was a strong advocate of editing photography for multimedia projects, integrating audio, video and working closely with web editors to co-produce extensive online pieces.

In 2000, as a photojournalist, Fisher began documenting the causes and effects of foster kids after they turn 18 and emancipate out of the system. With the advances of digital technology, Fisher shot both still photography and video on “Unadoptable” which was broadcast on ABC Nightline Up Close as a two-part series. By integrating these two media, the story was published on a much broader scale; stand alone pieces for print publication, web streaming and television broadcast.

A native of Akron, Ohio, Gail earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Miami University of Ohio, and an M.F.A. in Photojournalism from Ohio University. She has two children, Whitney, and Zack.

Robert Hanashiro

Robert Hanashiro is the Publisher and Editor of the Sports Shooter newsletter, Hanashiro is also a staff photographer for USA Today.

Kenny Irby

Kenny Irby is Poynter Institute's Visual Journalism Group Leader and Director of Diversity. He is an integral figure in visual journalism education, known for his insightful knowledge of photographic storytelling, innovative management ideas, and steadfast ethical thinking. He founded Poynter's photojournalism program in 1995. He teaches in seminars and consults in areas of photojournalism, leadership, ethics, and diversity.

During his 12-year tenure at Poynter, Kenny has traveled to Nigeria, Amsterdam, Denmark, Canada, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa and Russia preaching excellence in photojournalism. He chaired the 2007 Pulitzer Prize (photography categories), lectured at the World Press Photos buddy training program, the International Center Of Photography, is a member of the Eddie Adams Workshop board, presented on the 2003 Flying Short Course, served as photo manager at two USA Olympic Games ('96 and '02), chaired the Unity '99 Visual Task Force and is Poynter's representative and a founding member of The Best of Photojournalism (BOP) Committee.

Kenny contributed as a photo editor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects while at Newsday. He is a recipient of numerous NPPA awards, including the 2007 Sprague Award (the organization's highest honor), 2002 President's Award, 1999 Joseph Costa Award and others. He has been a juror for the American Society of Newspaper Editor's Community Service Photojournalism Awards, the Society for News Design, Annual Pictures of the Year Competition, White House News Photographers' Competition, and the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards. As a leader and facilitator in the visual journalism arena, he is a frequent lecturer and author on photographic reporting issues.

Kent Kobersteen

Kent Kobersteen was Director of Photography and Senior Editor at National Geographic magazine from February 1998 until January 2005. He joined the National Geographic in 1983 as a picture editor. Kent currently conducts photographic workshops and lectures internationally on the philosophy, ethics, and business of photojournalism. He also serves as a consultant to publications on photographic contracts and rights issues.

As Director of Photography at National Geographic his responsibilities involved building the magazine’s cadre of staff and freelance photographers, assigning photography for the magazine, supervising the photographers administratively, as well as participating in the editorial management of the photographic coverages for the Magazine.

Before joining the National Geographic, Kent spent eighteen years at the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Tribune -- sixteen years as a staff photographer and two years as editor of the Tribune’s Sunday magazine. As a photographer for the Minneapolis Tribune, Kent’s assignments took him throughout the United States and Canada, and to over 25 foreign countries, primarily in the Middle East and Africa. Although his duties at the National Geographic were administrative, they took him throughout Europe and Africa, and to the Arctic, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

While at the Minneapolis Tribune, Kent won numerous awards for his photography. During his tenure at the National Geographic, the magazine won the prestigious National Magazine Award for photography five times, and was a finalist an additional eight years.

Jim McNay Founder of the Visual Journalism Program at Brooks Institute, Jim McNay teaches and writes about photography and photojournalism in Santa Barbara, California. He contributes to Rangefinder Magazine and is senior editor for the Kobre Guide website covering video and multimedia. For 12 years he was coordinator of the photojournalism program at San Jose State University. McNay is a former Houston Post staff photographer and was the first summer instructorin-residence in the National Geographic photography department. McNay is a past president of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and has been a member of the Eddie Adams Workshop Black Team since workshop VI in 1993.

Corey Rich

Corey Rich – Visual Storyteller & Vice President / Principal at Aurora Photos

Corey Rich was the driving force behind founding Aurora’s Outdoor Collection, which has quickly become the world’s leading brand of outdoor adventure and outdoor lifestyle photography. Rich’s natural business savvy and intuitive knowledge of sales and marketing have allowed him to lead the growth of Aurora’s stock photography sales over the past five years. Rich is focused on overseeing Aurora’s continued growth in sales and business development. He has also played a major roll in the creation of two new divisions of the company: Aurora Select (assignments) and Aurora Novus (multimedia).

Rich is one of the most recognized adventure and lifestyle photographers in the outdoor space. He has photographed a wide array of assignments, including rock climbing in India, surfing in South Africa, freight-train hopping in the American West, ultra-marathon racing in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea. He has traveled the world on assignment for many of the best clients in the industry. His editorial work includes assignments for National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Sports Illustrated and The New York Times Magazine. Corporate/commercial clients include Anheuser-Busch, Apple, Nike and The North Face. His first book, My Favorite Place: Great Athletes In The Great Outdoors, was published by Chronicle Books. Today, much of his time goes into capturing both still images and video for the creation of multimedia projects for commercial and editorial clients.

Additionally, Rich is on the Board of Directors for The Access Fund, co-founder and lead instructor of the National Geographic Adventure Photography Workshop, member of the Rowell Legacy Committee and on The Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure judging panel.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 20 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital ‘videojournalist’ revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State’s Government’s broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the ‘VJ” paradigm (1998-present). The design behind Current.tv in partnership with former US VP Al Gore, The construction, in partnership with Carl Spielvogel, of a national hyperlocal citizen journalist network with Verizon. The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on the “VJ” paradigm – 1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996).

He has also designed, built and implemented VJ-driven newschannels around the world, including Time/Warner’s New York 1, Associated Newspapers (UK) London based Channel 1, Young Broadcasting stations in the US, Switzerland’s largest commercial TV broadcaster, TeleZuri, as well as a host of smaller projects such as Eritrea’s ERI-TV and Sri Lanka’s SLBC. His consulting clients include The BBC, McGraw-Hill, TV-24/Germany, TV4/Sweden, Oxygen Media, National Public Radio, Danmarks Radio (DK), TV-3 Sweden, Norway & Denmark, Tokyo Broadcasting, Korea Broadcasting.

In 2007, he partnered with The Travel Channel to create The Travel Channel Academy, a place where anyone can take a 4-day course and learn to create digital video content both for online and broadcast. This concept is now being expanded to other channels.

As a producer, Rosenblum has produced or overseen production on more than 300 hours of programming for both network and cable. His shows have included the long-running TRAUMA: LIFE IN THE ER, Paramedics, Police Force, Labor and Delivery, Science Times. These series have aired on TLC, Showtime and National Geographic. He has also produced for ABC, CBS, Oxygen and the BBC. Most recently his groundbreaking 5Takes series for Discovery has completely rewritten the production paradigm. The company currently has more than 50 hours in production for this year alone.

He has conducted his unique VJ training classes and bootcamps all over the world, from Thailand to Marrakech, and has lectured extensively both overseas and in the US. He recently entered into a partnership with Discovery Communications to set up the Travel Channel Academy, a national training facility open to anyone. For 8 years he was an adjunct professor of communication at New York University, where he taught “Television and the Information Revolution”, a course of his own design and at The Bauhaus in Germany. Prior to that he taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. His Brussels based Rosenblum Institute trains European journalists to work as vjs. He is the author of Videojournalismus (germany).

Grover Sanschagrin

Grover Sanschagrin is a former photojournalist who has turned his attention to various internet projects, including the SportsShooter.com site you see here today. Sanschagrin was executive producer of altpick.com; manager of interactive product development for chicagotribune.com; and the former director of product development for Quokka Sports. He is currently the VP of Marketing & Sales for PhotoShelter, the premiere online archive and sales vehicle for professional photographers.

Brian Storm

Brian Storm is President of MediaStorm (http://mediastorm.org), a multimedia production studio whose principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism and audio reporting across multiple media. Storm's professional experience includes two years as vice president of News, Multimedia and Assignment Services for Corbis, where he developed a global strategy for production, packaging and distribution as well as assignment services emphasizing in-depth multimedia reporting. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site.

Storm received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo Workshop. He lives in New York City and can be reached via brian@mediastorm.org.

Dai Sugano

Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world's best two years in a row in the Pictures of the Year International contest. Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees' immigration to the United States; the California Recall; former Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. In 2008, "Uprooted," which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won an Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries. His other work has been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and has received international and national recognitions.