Denny Simmons, Evansville Courier and Press
Convergence Speakers
- Brett Akagi, KARE-TV
- Rich Beckman, University of Miami
- Mark Biello, CNN
- Meredith Birkett, MSNBC
- Michel du Cille, The Washington Post
- Karen Ducey, Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Richard Koci Hernandez, San Jose Mercury News
- Scott Jensen, KTUU Alaska
- Russ Kendall, The Bellingham Herald
- Brad Loper, Dallas Morning News
- Scott Mc Kiernan, ZUMA Press
- Shawn Montano
- John Moore, Getty Images
- Mickey Osterreicher, NPPA General Counsel
- Denny Simmons, Evansville Courier and Press
- Eric Sowl, KTUU-TV
- Brian Storm, Mediastorm
- Scott Utterback, Courier Journal
- Kinsey Wilson, USA Today
- Zach Wise, Las Vegas Sun
- National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (speakers TBA)
Simmons, the 2008 Best of Photojournalism Photographer of the Year for Small Markets, will be discussing his award winning work in 2008.
A staff photographer at the Evansville Courier & Press, Simmons is also NPPA’s Region 4 Director and serves on the organization's board of directors. He’s also NPPA's National Nominations Committee chair. When he graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism winning the College Photographer of the Year award in 1993 he went on to an internship at National Geographic magazine. After that he shot for the Jacksonville Journal Courier and then worked at the St. Joseph (Missouri) News Press. Simmons worked as a picture editor at the News-Sun in Waukegan, IL, before joining the Evansville staff as a photographer.
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