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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