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Award-Winning Minneapolis Star Tribune Joins ZUMA  June 15, 2005 - San Clemente, CA - ZUMA Press, America's largest independent picture agency, proudly announces representation of the leading Minnesota daily, the Star Tribune. Today's deal gives ZUMA worldwide rights to represent the paper's daily picture production plus years of award-winning news, feature, sports and business coverage. Representing Star Tribune content expands the picture wire's newspaper syndication division by formalizing a long-running relationship between ZUMA and the leading Midwest daily."Of all the photo agencies I've worked with I found ZUMA to be by far the best," said Peter Koeleman, Star Tribune director of photography. "They are consummate professionals. When the Iraqi coffin photo was published in the Seattle Times, their photo editor called me to ask which agency I thought would be fair and treat the photographer honestly and with respect. I did not hesitate to recommend ZUMA. I look forward to a good working relationship with them in the future," he said. This is the second Mc Clatchy Company paper ZUMA has signed--the agency began representing the Sacramento Bee in 2003. ZUMA also represents the picture content of a dozen other major publications, including national sports weekly The Sporting News, Florida's prolific Palm Beach Post, Texas' diverse and ever-strong daily the San Antonio Express-News, London's large and dynamic Daily Mail, Spain's main daily ABC and Canada's largest newspaper and paper of record, the Toronto Star. "I am extremely proud to announce today's deal with the Star Tribune," said Scott Mc Kiernan, director and founder of ZUMA Press. "The work that comes out of Peter's staff always amazes me for its elegance and journalistic depth. I look forward to letting the world appreciate their images as their credit line and pictures grace the pages of hundreds of weeklies and dailies around the world," he said. The Star Tribune has a long history of excellent documentary photography. In 2005, its standing was enhanced by several important national awards. Jim Gehrz was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and National Photographer of the Year by Scripps-Howard. His work was also a finalist in the Pulitzer competition and was showcased as part of ZUMA's elite photojournalism essay division, zReportage.com. NPPA honored Renee Jones for a sports feature photo and Brian Peterson and Vickie Kettlewell for photo editing. Rich Tsong-Taatarii won the photo shoot competition at Unity 2004. In the weeks ahead, the "Best Of" the Star Tribune's picture archive will be loaded into ZUMA's e-commerce Website (ZUMApress.com) and made available for immediate syndication by editors worldwide. zNews Although the MICHAEL JACKSON child-molestation trial has finally come to an end, our research desk is still being inundated with requests for historic and recent coverage of the pop superstar and his family. To find these and other Jackson pictures, search for the keyword ZCJACKO on ZUMApress.com. Floods Hit Asia Immense rains are flooding Asia, killing civilians and forcing families out of their homes. In China's Hellongjiang Province, the death toll has risen to 92 after a raging flood swept over the entire village. Tragically, the majority of the victims were primary school students. Taiwan's agriculture is also severely affected with a considerable loss of crops and livestock. Imaginechina photographers capture the angst of the villagers as they endure the disaster. ZUMA Photographers Honored
Another ZUMA Press photographer has made it into the AOL Visions' Behind the Lens photographer showcase. This time, AOL's team of world-class photo editors selected our celebrity portrait photographer, Jadran Lazic. A portfolio of his work plus personal comments on each of the photo shoots can be viewed at: http://ygp.channel.aol.com/aolvisions/btl/jadranlazic.Behind the Lens debuted at the end of last year in response to a marked interest from AOL users in knowing more about the photographers whose work is found on AOL. Lazic is the second ZUMA photographer to be highlighted in Behind the Lens. Robert King made it into Behind the Lens in February, 2005. This week, his work on female soldiers is part of AOL Visions' In Focus series called, Women at War. In the London-Photographic Awards, Imaginechina/ZUMA photographer Zhou Hai won 2nd place for his black and white portraits of Chinese miners and workers of Northeast China. ZUMA photographer Colin Finlay received 3rd place for his portrait of a skateboarder at the beach.  zSports
Jackson Reunites With LakersPhil Jackson, who has led the Lakers to three consecutive championship titles, returned to coach the team on June 14, 2005. After being let go last summer when they lost to Detroit in the NBA Finals, Jackson says he is pleased to rejoin his team and has signed a three-year contract. zReportage Update
 
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