Backgrounder: Dallas Kinney

Dallas Kinney is a proven photojournalist, writer, director of graphic arts, and Sunday features editor.

As a newspaper journalist he as worked for the Washington Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa; Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa; Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach, Fla.; Miami Herald, Miami, Fla.; and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Penn.

Kinney's communication skills have been utilized by many of the nation's prominent newspapers and magazines, by major profit and non-profit corporations and by national television networks.

As a photojournalist, Kinney was the recipient of the following awards:

o Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism

o Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

o World Press Association/Photojournalism

o National Press Photographers Association -Regional

o Iowa News Photographer of the Year

o Florida News Photographer of the Year

Kinney has been a featured speaker on photojournalism at the following:

o National Geographic/University of Missouri Visual Workshop

o Medil School of Journalism

o Miami Communications Conference

o World Press Institute

Kinney's photojournalism has been featured in exhibits at:

o National Geographic Society (Martin Luther King assassination);

o Pulitzer Prize Photos exhibits in Japan and Korea (current);

o Traveling Exhibit of Pulitzer Prize Photos to U.S. Universities and Colleges (current); and the

o Photojournalism Collection at Freedom Forum's Newseum in Washington, D.C. (permanent).

o Centennial Hall, Mesa, AZ (permanent collection).

Kinney preceded his photojournalism career as a student of renowned nature photographer Ansel Adams in Carmel, Calif. He confirms his abiding love for and ongoing desire to create "Adams-like" photographs.

Dallas Kinney's proven communication skills include writing, editing, design, photojournalism, computer-base multimedia, television, and film production.

Video, Film & Television

For film and television, Kinney has traveled to Brazil, India, Israel, Mexico, Honduras, Grenada and Guatemala for research, scripting, photojournalism support and production of documentaries and docu-dramas for television and corporate communication.

He conceived, wrote and produced four major marketing and corporate image video productions for the annual, Washington D.C.-based Federal Computer Conference, Federal Office Automation Conference and the National Conference of Petroleum Independents, all products of Information Development Corporation of Boston, Mass.

Kinney also scripted "Curriculum For The Future," a video presentation by the Department of Education of the State of California.

In addition, Kinney wrote two children's international school shows for McDonald's: Miles of Smiles and The Big Red Shoe Review, both based upon the Ronald McDonald clown character.

Speaker & Lecturer

With his wife Martha, Kinney co-authored and presented eight daylong communication and marketing workshops for the international fine art industry in Miami Beach, Los Angeles, New York City and Atlanta.

Kinney has also been a speaker and lecturer on communications for the World Press Association, Billy Graham's "Congreso Internacional Para La Evangelizacion Del Mundo Latino," University of Missouri School of Journalism /Eastman Kodak Communications Conference, The Miami Communications Conference and the Medil School of Journalism.

Corporate Communications

As a corporate communications consultant, Kinney has created and produced successful communications programs, computer-based multimedia programs, web sites, marketing, direct mail, public/media relations, and corporate image programs for: EIS de Mexico, McDonald's, Foster Parents Plan, Life of Virginia, Kobe Steel of Japan, Federal Computer Conference, Wheat First Securities, DuPont, Federal Office Automation Conference, National Conference of Petroleum Independents, Federal Computer Conference, U.S. Center for World Mission, William Carey University, VERBO-Guatemala, New Life League International, Liga Vida Nueva-Guatemala, Equipment Maintenance Services, Dowding & Mills of London, and New Life Children's Home of Guatemala, and The Piney Woods School.

Kinney is currently teaching, via distance learning, an inaugural photojournalism class for The Piney Woods School in Piney Woods, Mississippi. Piney Woods is the nation's oldest and largest Christian boarding school for disadvantage African-American teens.

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