The WHNPA is proud to announce our annual contest is open to students from across the world to compete for the honor of WHNPA Student Photographer of the Year. The contest opens on February 20, 2010 and will accept entries until 11:59 p.m. EST on March 17, 2010.

Download a PDF of complete contest rules .

One student portfolio will be chosen as the winner and the portfolio will go on the Eyes of History ™contest website at www.whnpa.org/contest/eyes2010.

The 2010 Student Photographer of the Year will receive the following awards:

• A $1,000 award from the White House News Photographers Association

• A round trip ticket from sponsor Continental Airlines to attend the Eyes of History ™ Awards Gala (within the Continental Airline Gateway only).

• Two tickets from WHNPA to the black tie Eyes of History ™ Awards Gala in Washington, D.C.

• A two page spread in the Eyes of History ™ Awards book and highlighted in the traveling exhibit

• Portfolio featured on the Eyes of History ™ contest website at www.whnpa.org/contest/eyes2010.

• A $1000 scholarship to any Momenta Workshop of your choice (good through Spring 2011).

Mitchell works with college journalists and early career professionals in partnership with media/journalism organizations, designing and executing radio and then multimedia training boot-camps. Mitchell has trained several dozen media minded young people and helped them land jobs in all forms of media, focusing on public radio.

by Andrew Khouri and John Guenther
Staff Reporters

Questions abound about $428,000 giveaway to Marshall Drummond.
(L.A. City College)

Board members won’t say why they paid the Los Angeles Community College chancellor $428,000 to leave office.

In July, the seven-member board of the Los Angeles Community College District paid then-Chancellor Marshall Drummond nearly a half-million-dollars to quietly leave office.

Neither Drummond nor the board cited any reasons, saying they were bound by confidentiality rules and a clause in the severance pact that forbid either side from discussing the matter.

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Drummond himself appears to have moved on with his life. He took a $1,200-day consulting job at the Peralta Community Colleges, and issued a report that ironically chided the Northern California system for lack of transparency in addressing questions about board members’ lavish travel budget and the chancellor’s salary details. Drummond recently accepted a post in the United Arab Emirates, where he is chief operating officer and provost at the Higher Colleges of Technology. In an e-mail exchange, he refused to discuss details of his leaving.

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Parts of Demi Moore's body may have be altered on this cover photo for W magazine.

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Via Romensko

The Cook County state’s attorney has subpoenaed the students’ grades, notes and recordings of witness interviews, the class syllabus and even e-mails they sent to each other and to professor David Protess of the university’s Medill School of Journalism. The school is fighting the effort.

Cook County prosecutors contended today that a private investigator working with students at Northwestern University’s Innocence Project paid a witness in their investigation of a man they believed was wrongly convicted of murder in 1982.

“This evidence shows that Tony Drakes gave his video statement upon the understanding that he would receive cash if he gave the answers that inculpated himself and that Drakes promptly used the money to purchase crack cocaine,” according to a filing made by prosecutors today.

The filing argues the students acted as investigators, not reporters, and as such aren’t protected by press rights.

Prosecutors allege that after conducting a 2004 interview with Drakes, an investigator with the team paid a cab driver $60 to take Drakes from the interview site, a park in downstate Swansea, to a gas station two miles away. That amount was more than the fare and tip, and leftover cash — $40 — was given to Drakes; he used it to buy crack at a nearby crackhouse, the filing states.

David Protess, director of the Innocence Project, acknowledged Drakes’ cab fare was paid but denied it was in exchange for a statement by Drakes implicating himself in the killing.

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Phi Kappa Psi’s execution of the theft of 10,000 Daily Wildcat papers sounds like something out of the “Big Lebowski,” writes managing editor Shain Bergan. “Their actions afterward are damning to the point of ridicule. Let’s run through the stupidity, shall we?” He proceeds.

Column: Phi Psi, grow some balls and confess already

Sick of hearing about this story? Well I’m sick of these cowards and thieves

By Shain Bergan

Opinion

I’ve seen some spineless, idiotic moves in my time, but Phi Kappa Psi takes the cake.

Sick of hearing about this story? Well I’m sick of these cowards and thieves, period.

Not only does this frat’s execution of the theft of 10,000 Daily Wildcat newspapers sound like something out of the Big Lebowski (“Is this your homework, Larry?”). Their actions afterward are damning to the point of ridicule.

Let’s run through the stupidity, shall we?

First, Nick Kovaleski and Alex Cornell leave their homework at the dump site. Where’s the Spanish teacher in all of this? Then Phi Psi leadership—that’s you, Keith Peters and Daniel Levy—come to the Wildcat offices wanting our evidence, and then slink out like the rats you are when we ask you to go on the record. Minutes after you left the offices, you placed a call to the University of Arizona Police Department claiming someone who looked like they might work for the Daily Wildcat was found dumpster diving at your house the previous night. That guy, you claim, is actually our 60-year-old production manager who found the homework.

No one’s buying this crap.

A fraternity worth a damn would have raised holy hell after the Police Beat item went out, shouting its innocence from the hilltops. But you didn’t shout your innocence, did you, Phi Psi? Instead, you snuck into your cars in the wee hours of the morning and decided to hide the information at the source—by stealing thousands of the very newspaper that printed an item where a woman claimed you might have drugged her.

If anything, Phi Kappa Psi made things worse for themselves. What would have been a forgettable Police Beat item has turned into a firestorm picked up by news outlets local and national.

Well, Phi Psi, you got off scot-free. All of the legal and judicial avenues have been exhausted. Only one thing left for you to do—grow some balls and confess already.

Let’s call a spade a spade. You stole our newspapers. I don’t even want the $8,500 back. I just want your names and faces forever associated with censorship and idiocy.

I mean, what’s the worst that can happen out of you confessing? UAPD obviously wouldn’t pick the case back up—we’ve seen how much of a joke police force they are. You’ve already skated by your friends on the farce Greek Standards Board. You’re not going to be held legally responsible by anyone, but you would be showing for once that you have some testicles.
Read the full story from the Arizona Daily Wildcat

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