Ali Ghanbari

Who is Ali Ghanbari?

Ali Ghanbari is an Iranian-American photojournalist who has worked at the WJW Fox affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1994.

From 1982 to 1994 he was a photojournalist at the WKEF NBC affiliate in Dayton, Ohio. Ghanbari has largely been self-taught, and has been recognized with over 600 awards from numerous professional journalism organizations. Ghanbari won a National Press Photographers Association 1996 and 2011 national award for general news and news feature He was named NPPA Region 4 POY 1997, runner-up in 2000 and 2003. NPPA central general regional photographer of the year 2012.

He is only nine-time Ohio News Photographers Association Television Photographer of the Year as well as three-time Associated Press Best TV Photographer. Five-time Society of Professional Journalist Best TV Videographer.http://www.spjawards.org/ Ghanbari has been awarded 12 NATAS Lower Great Lakes Emmy and honored for the best video-essay package by RTNDA year 2000. National Headliner award 2012. Numerous news photography 1st places by Ohio Excellence in Journalismhttp://www.pressclubcleveland.com/excellence-in-journalism-awards.aspx. He served as a national speaker for the NPPA Airborne TV seminar in 1994. He was also a featured speaker for the NPPA 1995 Flying Short Course in Detroit, MI. The 1998 FSC in Cleveland,Ohio. The 1998 National Short Course in Baltimore, MD. He was an NPPA 2001 national judge in St. Petersburg, Florida. and the Eyes of History 2006 White House News Photographers Association in Washington, DC.