Workshop (Sports) — Jonathan Newton

Jonathan Newton is entering his 25th season as a
professional photographer.  He joined the staff of The
Washington Post in summer 2000.

He started out at the Nashville Banner in 1986 fresh out
of Western Kentucky University. After a little more than a
year at the Banner, he moved to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
where he spent 10 years shooting assignments that included the
Atlanta Braves. He joined the St. Petersburg Times in 1998 when
the town landed an expansion baseball team.

A Louisville native and the youngest of eight children, Newton
worked many jobs after high school, including apple picker in
Canada, kitchen cleaner at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone
National Park, aluminum siding installer, liquor store clerk,
pot washer at a Jewish deli, fish fryer, house painter and busboy.
It was as a student at Jefferson Community College that he got his first taste of newspapers, shooting
pictures for the weekly student publication. With $300 saved from his busboy job, he went to a downtown
Louisville pawnshop and bought his first professional camera equipment.

Newton has covered almost every major sporting event in the world: the Olympics in 1996 and 2008; the
Kirkwall Ba in Scotland, in 2007; four World Series; six National League Championships; six NCAA
Final Fours; the Kentucky Derby; the Preakness; several heavyweight title bouts in Las Vegas; college
football championships; the Super Bowl; and countless high school sporting events.

Newton’s awards include the Morris Berman NPPA Citation; White House News Photographers
Association awards; Baseball Hall of Fame photo contest; first place in the Florida Society of Newspaper
Editors sports competition; and three-time Georgia Photographer of the Year.

He lives in Maryland.