Contact: richardkocihernandez@gmail.com
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Experience
Deputy Director of Multimedia/Photo/Video, San Jose Mercury News, CA 2006-Present
Staff Photojournalist, San Jose Mercury News, CA 1992-2006
Photographic Intern, Wichita Eagle, Kansas, 1992
Staff Photojournalist, Ventura Star, CA 1989-1991
Education
San Francisco State University, BA Journalism, 1993
Ventura Community College, Liberal Arts, 1990
Theological Studies, Los Angeles Archdiocese, 1984-1990
Published Works
• Time Magazine
• Newsweek
• USA Today
• The New York Times
• Stern
• Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach, Fourth Edition by Kenneth Kobre
• Lomo: Don’t Think, Just Shoot by Fabian Monheim
Featured Articles
Photo District News Magazine, Jun 08, 2007 to Sep 06, 2007:
• Video Frame Grabs Finally Fit To Print?
• Getting Started In Multimedia: Online Resources
• The Multimedia Revolution
DigitalContentProducer.com, Oct 1, 2006
Will HDV define the future for newspaper photo departments?
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/hdhdv/depth/photo_finish_2/
Lectures
2008 Stanford University Knight Fellows Video/Audio Series
2007/2008 New Media Lecture Series, Knight New Media Center, Berkeley
2007 “Multimedia Storytelling” In association with World Press Photo, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles
Growing Audience: A Toolkit For Change - Webinar
http://www.growingaudience.org/news/webinars.html
NPPA Photojournalism/Multimedia Immersion Summit 2006, 2007, 2008
http://www.nppasummit.com/immersion/schedule/
http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/workshops_and_seminars/photojournalism_summit/2007/multimedia_program.html
NAHJ National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 2007
Hands-on Multimedia Storytelling: There’s More Than One Way to Tell a Story
1994 “A New Vision in Documentary Photography” San Francisco Art Institute
Instructor
Stanford University digital video instructor Department of Journalism/ Knight Fellows
Semester as a guest Instructor, San Francisco State University
Course Photo 3: The Photo Story
Honors
2007 “Best Use of the Web” by The National Press Photographers Association
2007/2006 “Best Use Interactive Publication/ major media” in the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year International contest.
2004 “Where Hope is Locked Away” nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by The San Jose Mercury News
Magazine Editing Division /Multiple Page Feature Story, Pictures of the Year, multiple awards for picture editing.
2003 James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award.
2000 NPPA/Nikon Sabbatical Grant, Finalist
2000 “Latino Diaspora” nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by The San Jose Mercury News
1998, 2000, 2001, Named the Ken McLaughlin Newspaper Photographer of the Year by SFBAPPA
1994 First place Missouri’s Pictures of the Year, One Week’s Work
1992 William Randolph Hearst Foundation Photojournalism competition, Finalist.
Technical Skills
Photoshop, Html, CSS, PHP, Flash/ActionScript, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects, HD Video.
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