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Freelance
Photojournalist and Photographer
Various Publications
May '02 — Present
Sweden-based newspaper, magazine, agency and wire photographer on contract with The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and EurasiaNet (OSI), covering Europe, central Asia, Middle East and northern Africa. Shoot with Nikon D300 and D1x DSLR and medium format Hasselblad film cameras and specialize in news, documentary and travel photography. Worked as a staff and freelance photojournalist and photographer since 1994 with images published in, posted on and distributed by The Associated Press, The New York Times, EurasiaNet, The New York Sun, Bloomberg News, CBSNews.com, The Washington Post, Vogue Italia, LeMonde, L'Express and various other domestic and international publications and Web sites.
Freelance News Media Trainer, Consultant and Researcher
Various Organizations and Companies
May '02 — Present
Sweden-based journalism trainer hired to lead international workshops for working professionals and journalism students on various news media topics, including photojournalism, online journalism, basic news reporting and writing, media ethics, diversity reporting and post-conflict reporting. Consult for 5W Mignon Media about news publication production, online news production and media convergence for international clients. Research and report on U.S. and international news media topics, including a comprehensive October 2003 report, which received global recognition and distribution, for Freedom House about Ukraine's news media and its connection to the country's 2004 presidential election.
Knight International Press Fellow, ICFJ
Transitions
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
Aug. '02 — April '03
Served as a reporting and writing coach for TOL's more than 40
correspondents based in the 28 former communist countries and former
Soviet republics of eastern and central Europe, the Caucasus, central
Asia and Mongolia by providing one-on-one journalism training on-site
and via distance learning. Conducted journalism workshops for more than
50 additional practicing journalists and journalism students in the
Balkans, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Azerbaijan and Mongolia on various
topics, including: post-conflict reporting; diversity reporting;
photojournalism; online journalism; civil journalism; multimedia news
presentations; television news production; and basic news reporting and
writing.
Special Projects Producer
CBSNews.com (New York, N.Y.)
March '00 — May '02
Worked as lead producer on special reports and interactive projects by
coordinating writers, researchers, designers and programmers to create
in-depth, multimedia packages on key news stories for the CBS News Web
site. Wrote and edited hard news stories, concentrating mostly on the
top breaking stories of the day. Shot iPIX immersive Web images.
CBSNews.com was recognized by the Online News Association as the best
national-market television news Web site for 2002 and was presented the
2003 Edward R. Murrow Award as the nation's best "TV Network" Web site
by the Radio-Television News Director's Association.
Photojournalism Adviser
Eddie Adams' "Barnstorm" Workshop
(Jeffersonville, N.Y.)
Oct. '00
Critiqued photojournalism portfolios of the attendees during the "11:30
Club" sessions at the Eddie Adams workshop, offering feedback and
advice on how to improve photojournalism skills and presentation.
Multimedia Editor
Associated Press, The WIRE (New York, N.Y.)
Oct. '95 — March '00
Specialized in producing in-depth, multimedia news and sports special
reports and digital video news packages for the AP Web site. Produced
AP's in-depth coverage of the 1998 World Cup, an interactive Web module
that attracted AP's first international customer, Malaysia's Kuala
Lumpur Online. Worked daily with nonlinear video editing, video
compression, graphics, imaging, multimedia and Web editing tools to
produce interactive news content. Shot still photos and iPIX immersive
images for traditional and VR photo essays. Worked as a senior producer
determining daily breaking news content and wrote headlines for the AP
Web site. Wrote hard and soft news stories for the AP feed.
Worked in the AP Miami bureau from Oct. '95 to Feb. '97 as an editorial
assistant and reporter, editing and writing breaking news, enterprise
and sports stories. Supervised AP election coverage for the 1996
Florida and national elections. Provided computer assisted research
(CAR) reporting for hard news and investigative stories.
Sports Reporter
The Stuart News (Stuart, Fla.)
Aug. '95 — Oct. '95
Covered local sports for a three-county area in east Florida. Wrote
7-10 sports stories per week ranging from game stories to lengthy
feature pieces. Wrote a weekly column on high school prep sports in the
Stuart area.
Correspondent
The St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
Sept. '94 — Aug. '95
Wrote hard and soft news stories on Tampa communities, the University
of South Florida and Tampa Bay area sports.
Media Advisor
European Journalism Network (Prague, Czech Republic)
May '95 — Aug. '95
Provided journalism training and advice to students producing
independent publications at universities in the former communist
countries and former Soviet republics of central and eastern European.
Coached young journalists in newspaper design, reporting and writing,
publishing and photojournalism. Translated documents and grant bid
proposals from English to German and reverse. |
fellowships
& awards
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Knight International Press
Fellowship
Aug. '02 — April '03 (Czech Republic)
Awarded
by the International Center for Journalists (Washington, D.C.)
See above.
Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
June '99 — Aug. '99 (Germany)
Awarded
by the International Center for Journalists (Washington, D.C.)
Worked in Germany on special projects for the
Associated Press Web site, including the "10-Year Anniversary of the
Fall of the Berlin Wall"; "The Iron Curtain — 10 Years Later"; and the
last total solar eclipse of the millennium (Romania).
iPIX
1999 Outstanding Achievement in Journalism
March '00
Presented photojournalism award for immersive 360-degrees Internet
images presented as part of in-depth reports on the Associated Press
Web site, The WIRE.
Society
of Professional Journalists
May '95
Presented two SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards for spot news reporting and
editorial writing. |
publications
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"Under Assault: Ukraine's News Media and the 2004
Presidential Election"
October '03
Freedom House
"Ukrainian News Media Assessment and
Training Needs"
July '03
Freedom House-Budapest |
education
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M.A., Documentary Photography
London College of Communications (London, UK): ’08—’09:
B.A., News
Editorial/Journalism
University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.): ’93—’95:
B.S., Electrical Engineering
University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.): ’85—’90 |
skills
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Fluent in English and German, and studied some Swedish, Russian, Czech and Spanish.
Advanced knowledge of film, digital and immersive Web photography.
Strong html, web editing and web design; intimate knowledge of www and emerging technologies.
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interests
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| International football,
travel, non-fiction, German colonial coinage, hiking,
nature and wildlife. |
personal
information
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Born Jan. 2, 1967 in Wiesbaden, Germany
U.S.A. citizenship (formerly German); Hold Swedish and EU immigration and work visa
Married to Zandra Knutsson (a freelance graphic designer and Swedish citizen)
Daughters Amelie (born 03/16/05) and Natalie (born 05/30/07); Cat Mumu (adopted 10/03/03)
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