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The November 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on photojournalist Lynsey Addario, an NPPA member who has won a very prestigious honor indeed, a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius award." Writer Bruce Young takes a look at Addario's career, and what she's doing today in Afghanistan, continuing her work as one of fewer than 10 photographers to ever receive the MacArthur grant.

Also in this issue, writer Robert Brandon looks at KUSA-TV in Denver who, despite the economy and some radical changes in the way they've done business in the past, decided to roll up their sleeves and to "still care" deeply about the quality of their work, an attitude that certainly helped them win NPPA's Station of the Year (Large Markets) honor again (for the 11th time) in the Best Of Photojournalism competition. In "Dover Revisited," Bruce Young ask why, after the 18-year photo ban was lifted, the media turned out in full force to witness the initial "dignified transfer of remains" but then, over time, their attention faded until now, on most days, a lone AP photographer witnesses the unloading of flag-drapped shipping caskets. And in September, some photographers in Pittsburgh were treated to mace in the face as police cracked down on G-20 economic summit protesters. These stories, plus a look at four new books, are featured in the November issue of News Photographer magazine.

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The October 2009 issue of News Photographer features a cover story written by author Bruce Young about photojournalist Lucian Read, who from Haiti to Iraq to Afghanistan, from shooting stills to HD video, is in it for the long haul. Also in this issue, the retired director of photography for the Associated Press, Hal Buell, writes about "Tough Pictures", some of history's graphic images that have moved the public to reaction; from Memphis, a feature story by Devin Greaney about Photojournalism & Spirituality; author and journalism educator Stephen Wolgast reviews the new Rick Smolan book Obama Time Capsule; and Multimedia Moments columnist Seth Gitner writes about a Newark Star-Ledger print and Web project that had five photographers covering six surgeries in two states for "Chain Of Life." These and many more features are in the October 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine.