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Photo assignment: Western & Southern Open
I finished my summer in Cincinnati two weeks back by working one of the coolest sports assignments I’ve been privileged enough to cover. I spend four days camped out at the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio, (about four miles from the house at which I was living) covering the world’s best tennis players. … Continue reading
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A popular mantra among media folks is “access is everything.” I got every ounce of access I asked for when Warped Tour made its stop in Cincinnati last week. This time around, my one lens — a 24-70 — was actually adequate for what I was shooting. That wasn’t the case at all when I … Continue reading
It’s easy to be inspired. There’s not a lot to it. You can watch good movies, listen to an album that excites your imaginaton, watch the stock market dance or oogle at paintings on a wall. Whatever your interest, you can be passively interested. There’s no substance to any of those things. Literally every being … Continue reading
From where I sit, three TV stations are shooting live shots and a crew of road-hardened workers is tearing down what’s left of a packed house show. Over the past four days I’ve covered Weezer, Death Cab For Cutie, Neon Trees and the President of the United States of America. No, not the band bearing … Continue reading
My name is Jim Ryan, a journalist from Northern Michigan who attends the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. I am the assistant managing editor of The Post, Athens' independent student newspaper, and am a 2013 Columbus Dispatch intern.
