Jay Dickman, the
1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for feature photography. Dickman, a staff
photographer at the Dallas Times Herald, won what judges called the
depicting of "terror, despair and agony of war" in El Salvador.
Ken Swartz, NBC News, San Francisco, 1983 Television News Photographer of the Year. Swartz is
one of only three people to win the coveted TV News Photographer of the Year award twice.
Bill Frakes, The Miami Herald, 1983 Newspaper Photographer of the Year.
Ken Paik, Director of Photography, The Baltimore Sun.
Mike Wheatly, videotape editor for ABC News in Washington, D.C. will discus the transition from
still to TV photography.
Jay Mather, 1982 winner of the Robert F. Kennedy award for national reporting.
David Yarnold, 1983 Picture Editor of the Year, Assistant Managing Editor, The San Jose Mercury News.
Jim Brandenburg, twice Magazine Photographer of the Year and
now a staff photographer for National Geographic.
On Oct. 28 the 26th annual Flying Short course will present
a program designed to give working photojournalists and
editors both ideas and inspiration. Speakers in the FSC
include Jim Brandenburg, Jay Mather and Bill Kuykendall,
photo director of the Seattle Times and a former Newspaper
Picture Editor of the Year.
A special program is also available for television
photojournalists on Oct. 29. Mike Wheatly, videotape editor
for ABC News in Washington, D.C. will discuss the transition
from still to TV photography and Lisa Parisot will talk
about her work with WFFA-TV in Dallas, the Television
Station of the Year. Swartz and Steve Tello, operations
producer for ABC-TV's "World News Tonight," will also be
featured speakers.