One of our most celebrated speakers, Jonathan Newton, Sports Photographer for the Washington Post, will be back for a return engagement as our guest Program Speaker for our first meeting of the New Year! Not only is Jonathan an outstanding photographer, but he’s a great storyteller as well, and this is a Program night not to be missed! Jonathan will be joining us for dinner at Chili’s at 5:30 PM prior to the Program, so if you’d like to attend dinner with the speaker, please rsvp to: mary.m.o’neill@gsk.com
or text 703-216-9340.
Jonathan Newton is entering his 25th season as a professional photographer. He joined the staff of The Washington Post in the summer of 2000.
He started out at the Nashville Banner in 1986 fresh out of Western Kentucky University. After a little more than a year at the Banner, he moved to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he spent 10 years shooting assignments that included the Atlanta Braves. He joined the St. Petersburg Times in 1998 when the town landed an expansion baseball team.
A Louisville native and the youngest of eight children, Newton worked many jobs after high school, including apple picker in Canada, kitchen cleaner at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, aluminum siding installer, liquor store clerk, pot washer at a Jewish deli, fish fryer, house painter and busboy. It was as a student at Jefferson Community College that he got his first taste of newspapers, shooting pictures for the weekly student publication. With $300 saved from his busboy job, he went to a downtown Louisville pawnshop and bought his first professional camera equipment.
Newton has covered almost every major sporting event in the world: the Olympics in 1996 and 2008; the Kirkwall Ba in Scotland, in 2007; four World Series; six National League Championships; six NCAA Final Fours; the Kentucky Derby; the Preakness; several heavyweight title bouts in Las Vegas; college football championships; the Super Bowl; and countless high school sporting events.
Newton’s awards include the Morris Berman NPPA Citation; White House News Photographers Association awards; Baseball Hall of Fame photo contest; first place in the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors sports competition; and three-time Georgia Photographer of the Year.