Beck Diefenbach

Current

• Staff Photographer at Daily Chronicle

Past

• Intern Staff Photographer at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Intern Staff Photographer at The South Bend Tribune
• Intern Staff Photographer at The Naperville Sun

• Photo Editor, Photographer, Multimedia Producer at The Daily Illini

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Connections

117 connections

Industry

Newspapers

Beck Diefenbach’s Summary

Beck Diefenbach’s Specialties:

Skilled in studio and documentary photography and videography. Experience in editing daily and long term photo assignments and video projects alone and on a team.

Proficient in Adobe’s Photoshop, Bridge and InDesign. Microsoft’s Excel. Apple’s Aperture, iWeb, Final Cut Pro Studio and Express. Photo Mechanic, Slideshow Pro, Slideshow Pro Director, Soundslides and various FTP programs.

Beck Diefenbach’s Experience

• Staff Photographer

  Daily Chronicle

  (Newspapers industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Act as staff photographer for a daily rural 10,000 circulation newspaper. Shoot and edit stills for features, sports, portraits, daily and breaking news assignments for the next day’s paper and Web site, http://www.daily-chronicle.com.

• Intern Staff Photographer

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  (Public Company; LEE; Newspapers industry)

  August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)

  Act as staff photographer and videographer for a daily metro 400,000 circulation newspaper. Shoot and edit stills for features, sports, portraits, daily and breaking news assignments for the next day’s paper and web site, www.STLToday.com. Produce 
multimedia and video feature stories for The St. Louis Post Dispatch Web site.

• Intern Staff Photographer

  The South Bend Tribune

  (Newspapers industry)

  January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

  Act as staff photographer for a daily metro 90,000 circulation newspaper. Shoot and edit stills for features, sports, portraits, daily and breaking news assignments for the next day’s paper and web site, www.SouthBendTribune.com. Shoot and edit video feature stories for The South Bend Tribune Web site.

• Intern Staff Photographer

  The Naperville Sun

  (Newspapers industry)

  June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

  Act as staff photographer for a suburban daily 20,000 circulation newspaper. Shoot and edit stills for features, sports, portraits, daily and breaking news assignments for the next day’s paper and web site, www.NaperSun.com. Shoot and edit video feature stories for The Sun Times News Group Web sites.

• Photo Editor, Photographer, Multimedia Producer

  The Daily Illini

  (Newspapers industry)

  March 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  As Multimedia Producer:
  Coordinate photographers and On-air reporters before events with the intent of creating online multimedia. Test new methods of producing multimedia content while developing a copy-flow. Develop and maintain the multimedia section of The Daily Illini Web site, www.DailyIllini.com/multimedia.
  
  As Photo Editor:
  Conduct training and interviews for new 
photographers, assign and edit photos for printing in the next day’s paper, and organize the purchase and maintenance of photo equipment for three different departments of The Illini Media Company.

Beck Diefenbach’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelors of Science , Aviation Human Factors with extended time in Photography and Journalism , 2003 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  The Daily Illini Independent Student Newspaper, Illini Union Board Musicals.

Additional Information

Beck Diefenbach’s Interests:

Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/thedief

Beck Diefenbach’s Groups:

National Press Photographers Association, Illinois Press Photographers Association, Nikon Professional Services, Sportsshooter, St. Louis Newspaper Guild Local 36047, Boy Scouts of America

•    UIUC Networking
•    Eagle Scouts, Boy Scouts of America
•    NPPA - National Press Photographers Association
•    Nikon Professional
•    Google Wave

Beck Diefenbach’s Honors:

2009
Illinois Press Association (Division D)
Feature — 1st
Personality — 1st and 2nd
Sports — HM
Spot News — HM

Illinois Associated Press Editors Association (Division C)
Spot News — 1st
General News — 2nd
Portrait/Personality — 2nd
Sports Action — 3rd

Northern Illinois Newspaper Association (Cat III)
Photo Series – 2nd


2007
Illinois Press Photographer Association – (Pro Class)
Team Audio Slideshow - 3rd

Illinois Press Photographer Association (Student Class)
Feature – 2nd
News – HM
Sports Action – HM

College Publisher Awards of Excellence Cutting Edge Award
As multimedia producer of The Daily Illini

Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker
As multimedia producer of The Daily Illini

Illinois College Press Association
Multimedia Reporting – 3rd

Illinois College Press Association
Photo Essay – 2nd

2002
Boy Scouts of America, Troop 14 of San Francisco, Calif.
Eagle Scout Bronze Palm

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