Rescuers and construction workers aren't the only ones sickened by exposure to World Trade Center dust and smoke. Journalists, including photographers, are also reporting health problems.....
Photo District News, March 2008

Bilal Hussein began his Associated Press career with a burst of jarring pictures from Fallujah. The first photo with his credit on it, dated Sept. 12, 2004, shows masked insurgents holding RPG launchers and posing with a downed U.S. military drone....
PDNOnline, November 28, 2007

These are giddy times for citizen journalism. It's hard to resist the storyline of do-it-yourself amateur photographers and reporters trouncing the hapless mainstream media. But there's reason to be skeptical. Citizen journalism Web sites are overrun with mundane work, especially in photography....
Photo District News, September 2007
This story was part of a magazine issue that won a 2008 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best Single Issue.

The White House broke with tradition Wednesday night and refused to let photojournalists shoot still pictures of the president at the podium after his prime-time address on the Iraq war. Caught in a bind on deadline, some newspapers ran an official White House photo with no disclosure that it was provided by the government....
PDNOnline, January 11, 2007

A new type of arrangement, a blend of paparazzi, celebrity portraiture and public relations, has become a small but steady business for some photo agencies. Call them the payolarazzi. As photo prices reach unheard-of heights, the images that readers see are increasingly subject to manipulation and spin....
Photo District News, September 2006
This story was part of a magazine issue that won a 2007 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best Single Issue.

It's 6:45 a.m. the day after the Oscars, and sunlight has begun to filter through the windows of the US Weekly office in New York. Three editors circle a big conference table stacked with photo printouts--images under consideration to fill the celebrity magazine's 20-some pages of Oscar coverage. Monday is deadline day, which leaves them just a few hours to sift through tens of thousands of photos....
PDNOnline, March 8, 2006

The Tuesday after the hurricane, photographer Alex Brandon put a life vest around his neck, clenched a Ziploc bag containing a CompactFlash card in his teeth, and swam through the flood to deliver his images to The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune building. On his swim, he passed fellow Times-Picayune shooter Ted Jackson, who was paddling a rowboat with a broken broom. "We kind of shook hands and said, 'Be safe,' and took off," recalls Jackson....
PDNOnline, September 20, 2005

It's opening day and the Pirates are beating the Phillies 2-1. Baseball fan Zack Hample, 26, flashes a slightly malevolent grin as he watches the last out of the game on TV in his parents' Manhattan apartment. "Millwood lost; I'm glad," Hample says, referring to Phillies pitcher Kevin Millwood. "He's really snotty."...
The Baltimore Sun, April 21, 2004

After Richard Graham wrecks his Volvo, he drives back to the pit and surveys the damage. Apart from a flat tire and a few dents, it doesn't look too bad. "I think I have more duct tape," he says, "so I'll be OK."....
The Baltimore Sun, March 2, 2004

Trucker Simmie Bowden leaves the Pilot in Middlesex Township with an armful of essential items. He carries a bucket-sized drink cup filled with water, a steel mug of coffee, three chocolate muffins, some new work gloves and a six-pack of wool socks. Bowden, who lives in Louisiana, is hauling a load of plastic pipe to Columbus, Ohio. "Coffee and water. I got my sweetener," he says as he climbs into his rig. "Time to ride." It's 2:10 a.m....
The Carlisle Sentinel, January 20, 2002
This story won a 2001 Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Award: First place for business reporting, newspapers under 20,000 circulation.

At least 19 people were arrested early yesterday when about 4,000 students stormed the streets after the Penn State basketball team lost to Temple in the NCAA tournament. As the game was ending shortly before midnight Friday, thousands of people massed in an area of student apartment buildings near the University Park campus, cheering "We are Penn State!" Some threw beer bottles, lit firecrackers and toppled street signs. Police used pepper spray repeatedly to clear people from the sidewalks....
The Harrisburg Patriot-News, March 25, 2001
This story won fourth place in the spot news category of the 2000-2001 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Too Close is a five-month-old Holstein. He's a healthy calf who will gladly take a break from munching on hay to have a visitor scratch his ears. And he seems blissfully unaware that he has no heart. About three weeks ago, Penn State researchers at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center took out Too Close's heart and replaced it with a machine....
The Daily Collegian, November 30, 2000
This story won first place in the feature story category of the 2001 Pennsylvania Newspapers Association Collegiate Keystone Awards.