John Lazar
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Experience
Los Angeles Daily News                                                                                                 Aug. 1998 - Oct. 2008
∎	 Staff photographer and videographer.
California State University, Long Beach                                                                      Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2003
∎	 Photojournalism instructor.
Los Angeles Daily News                                                                                                 Jan. 1995 - Aug. 1998
∎	 Freelance photographer.
Los Angeles Times                                                                                                           Jan. 1994 - Nov. 1994
∎	 Student internship extended to temporary part-time photographer.
San Gabriel Valley Tribune                                                                                           June 1993 - Aug. 1993
∎	 Student internship.
California State University, Long Beach                                                                      May 1993 - Dec. 1996
∎	 Daily 49er Student staff photographer, Photo Editor, Page Designer and Managing Editor.
Achievements
∎	 1995 - Team Pulitzer, Los Angeles Times for coverage of the first day of the Northridge, CA, earthquake on January 17, 1994.
∎	 1995 - First place, Student Photographer of the Year Scholarship from Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles
∎	 1997 - Second place overall winner in William Randolph Hearst’s annual photojournalism competition’s sports and news categories.
∎	 2001 - Second place, sports photo in the annual competition of Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles.
∎	 1990 - First place, sports and Second place news photo at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC).
∎	 1994 - Finished in the top 20 overall winners of William Randolph Hearst’s annual photojournalism competition.
Education
California State University, Long Beach                                                                 Dec. 1992 - May 1997
Bachelors Degree - Photojournalism major and Sociology minor. 
College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA.                                                                    Jan. 1989 - May 1992
Associate Degree - Journalism major, Computer Science minor along with general studies. 
Languages
Fluent in Assyrian and Farsi.
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