Ali Ghanbari

Ali Ghanbari (born 1950 in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American photojournalist at WJW-TV, Fox O&O in Cleveland, Ohio, USA since 1994 and 82 to 94 at WKEF-TV, NBC in Dayton, Ohio. He has been recognized with over 400 awards from professional journalism organizations. Ghanbari won National Press Photographers Association 1996 national award for general news, NPPA Region 4 Photographer Of the Year in 1997. He was named NPPA Region 4 POY runner-up in 2000 and 2003. He is only six-time Ohio News Photographers Association POY (1993,95,96,97,98, 2003) as well as three-time state Associated Press Best TV Photographer, three-time Society of Professional Journalist (Ohio) Best TV Photographer. Ghanbari has been awarded nine local emmys and honored for the best video and nat sound packages. 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, the 1998 National Short Course in Baltimore, MD. He was an NPPA 2001 national judge in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the Eyes of History 2006 White House News Photographers Association in Washington, DC.