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The September 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on multimedia ethics, what still photographers who are making the switch to shooting Web video are discovering about it, and what college professors are teaching about the topic. Also in this issue, author and teacher Stephen Wolgast reviews the new book "Humanity In War" that features text by James Nachtwey; Detroit's Rodney Curtis ruminates on his new Life In Layoff Land; photography editor Jim Michalowski investigates the complex relationship between photographers' understanding of image metadata and orphaned pictures; and the University of Missouri's David Rees and John Dengler write about the life and the many contributions of America's consummate photojournalist and photojournalism educator, Angus McDougall, who died in August at the age of 92. These and other stories are in the September 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.

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The August 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a first-person cover story by photojournalist Ramin Talaie about his three-week assignment in Tehran, Iran, covering the days leading up to the presidential election and the violence and protests that followed. Also in this issue, news on the second anniversary of the deadly Phoenix news helicopter midair tragedy that killed four of a lawsuit settlement along with new safety recommendations; a feature about three Nebraska photojournalism students who are spending the summer on the road in a travel trailer with one of their professors, Bruce Thorson, searching for the impact of the Great Recession on Nebraskans; and Rino Pucci writes from Milan, Italy, about the historical and propaganda issues surrounding photographing "power." These features and more in the August 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.

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