HELPING PHOTOGRAPHERS COPE AFTER WAR ASSIGNMENTS
Photojournalists sent to cover war have gone off to far-away, remote places and witnessed horrific events that most of their photo editors never experience for themselves. Many return unable to talk about their experiences and find other outlets to release their emotions. "Emotional vomiting," is how one AP photographer referred to it. In an essay, Steve Gonzales, assistant managing editor for photography at the Kansas City Star, talks about his difficulty dealing with a challenging manager's role: helping these staffers through often difficult readjustment. Click here to read.

CULTURAL STUDIES, WEB OPPORTUNITIES, TRAINING HIGHLIGHT WORKSHOP
Photo editors from five states and the District of Columbia gathered May 4 at The Philadelphia Inquirer for the first Associated Press Photo Managers Northeast seminar. Speakers included Tom Kennedy, of washingtonpost.com, who spoke on photojournalism content on news websites; Jamie O'Boyle, a senior analyst with a Philadelphia-based think tank spoke on consumerism and how to recognize what readers need and want in their news; and Philadelphia Inquirer photographer David Swanson showed images and answered questions about his recent two-month assignment in Iraq. Click here for more on the workshop.

The Associated Press Photo Managers' installment of Update is coordinated by Darrell Hoemann of the News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill. The APPM Web site has been updated with a latest news and features section at the start of the home page. The site has information about workshops, issues and news relating to news photography management. Check it out at www.apphotomanagers.org.

APME JOINS AP MOVE TO NEW QUARTERS
The Associated Press Managing Editors office is packing up and joining The Associated Press' move to new corporate headquarters. Effective Aug. 1, the mailing address for APME will change to:

Associated Press Managing Editors
450 West 33rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10001

APME's telephone number will remain the same -- (212) 621-1838 -- as will the fax number, (212)-506-6102. The AP is leaving The Associated Press Building at Rockefeller Center after 67 years to move into the 14th, 15th and 16th floors of its new headquarters at West 33rd Street and 10th Avenue. Change of address cards are being mailed to members and subscribers. Check AP'S corporate Web site under "Contact Us" for AP contact information.

COOPERATION KUDOS: MEMBERS CITED FOR SHARING NEWS, PHOTOS WITH AP
Member newspapers, broadcast stations and online news desks are AP's eyes and ears on the ground. Thanks and congratulations to these members for their help on recent stories. For their contributions they will receive APME Instant Citations from APME:

• The DuQuoin (Ill.) Evening Call and the West Frankfort (Ill.) Daily American for providing quick photo coverage of a train derailment in Southern Illinois that shut down an interstate highway. Neither newspaper has AP photo service.
  
• WOWK-TV of Huntington, W.Va., for alerting AP and sending along a copy of a nine-count indictment lodged against a local county magistrate.
  
• The Post-Bulletin of Rochester, Minn., for promptly sharing their story and a photo of a helicopter crash sound of the city July 8 that killed the mayor of a nearby town.
  
• KOVC Radio of Valley City, N.D., where newsman Ryan Cunningham tipped AP to a June 24 shooting on a farm in south central North Dakota that left a 17-year-old boy dead and his mother wounded.
  
• KFGO Radio of Fargo, N.D., where newsman Don Haney was first to e-mail AP with a story on an early-morning plane crash that seriously injured a University of North Dakota student pilot July 8. The Grank Forks (N.D.) Herald also will be cited for quickly providing a photograph from the crash scene.
  
• KNSS-AM, Wichita, Kan., where Program Director Tony Duesing gave AP the first word June 25 of the closing of the MCI call center in a move costing local 700 jobs. Duesing called upon learning of a colleague's friend who worked at the center suspected the impending layoffs.
  

AP Photo/Louis DeLuca
The Dallas Morning News

Also, congratulations to Louis DeLuca of The Dallas Morning News, who contributed the APME Member Showcase Photo of the Month for June. He captured the dramatic image of Seattle Mariners center fielder Hiram Bocachica robbing Texas Rangers' Hank Blalock of a hit with a catch in the second inning during Texas' 9-7, 18-inning comeback win June 24. Bocachica caught the ball with his bare hand after hitting the wall.