DigitalFilmmaker.com - Photojournalism & film making publication based in VA
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Roger Richards is the Editor and Publisher of The Digital Filmmaker, and Multimedia Editor/Producer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. Richards now produces video essays and digital short films for the Web, as well as working on documentary photography projects. He began his photojournalism career in 1979, focusing on political and social themes in the Caribbean, the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and then joining the Gamma Liaison photo agency in 1988. Based in Miami and then Europe, his work with the agency included the US invasion of Panama, political upheaval in Haiti, civil war in Croatia and the siege of Sarajevo. He is a former Associated Press photo bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia, and a staff photographer at the Washington Times in Washington, DC, from 1997-2000. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the National Press Photographers' Association, the White House News Photographers' Association, Pictures of the Year International, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Virginia News Photographers Association. He became a digital filmmaker in 1998, focusing on projects about war in the Balkans. He was awarded the first White House News Photographers' Association sabbatical grant for videojournalism in 2000 and was one of the first graduates of the famous Platypus Workshop that trains photojournalists how to become digital filmmakers and videojournalists. He is now a member of the workshop faculty.
Ron Steinman began his career at 23 at NBC News and spent 35 years at the network. He moved from copyboy to producing segments and writing for the Huntley-Brinkley Report, first in Washington and then in New York then on to field producer for the newsmagazine show Chet Huntley Reports. He produced documentaries and worked on specials, including space coverage, before being named NBC's Bureau Chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He also served as Bureau Chief in Hong Kong and London before returning to New York to oversee the network's news specials. In 1975 he joined the Today Show where he spent 11 years in a number of senior producing positions in Washington and New York. After leaving NBC News he worked for 5 years as a freelance producer for ABC, among other things, he wrote and produced a series of A&E Biography one hour documentaries on O.J. Simpson, Malcolm X, Colin Powell, Timothy McVeigh, LBJ, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Rockefeller, James Earl Ray, and Jim Jones. He also produced for the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel. He produced 3 of the highly rated 6 part series for the Learning Channel on the Vietnam War called The Soldier's Story, first broadcast in October 1998, and the follow up "Missing in Action.", which has won a National Headliner Award and an International Documentary Festival Award. He is also the author of the book, "The Soldier's Story" published in 1999 by TV Books, and now by Barnes & Noble, and "Women in the Vietnam" published by TV Books in July, 2000. The University of Missouri Press published his memoir "Inside Television's First War: A Saigon Journal" in October 2002. Steinman has won a Peabody Award, a National Press Club award, two American Women in Radio & Television Awards, two Chris Awards and been nominated for five Emmies. His documentary film, "Luboml: My Heart Remembers," a Douglas /Steinman Production, aired on PBS' WILW/21 in the New York metropolitan area. His latest film, "My Grandfather's House: The Journey Home" a feature length documentary, and a Douglas/Steinman Production, is currently in release. The film is distributed by Cinema Guild.
Dina Richards is the Web Development Manager at WHRO, a PBS and NPR affiliate station, located in Norfolk, Virginia. Dina's main focus has been helping non-profit organizations establish their presence on the Web. She has been the Webmaster for The Digital Filmmaker and Digital Vision Network from their inception in 1999. Dina also works as a freelance Web designer and consultant.
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- Roger Richards
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- Norfolk Virginia
- United States 23518
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- (757)583-0909
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