Jim Bourg

Jim Bourg has until recently been the Editor In Charge of Washington and political campaign coverage for Reuters News Pictures, as well as a Reuters staff photographer for the past 20 years. In this time, he has mentored and trained many photographers in producing quality and impactful campaign and political pictures.

Jim has also specialized in negotiating access for still photographers with the White House, on Capitol Hill, for the political conventions, presidential debates and with individual political campaigns. He has done this not just for the photographers working for him, but for photographers in general.

He served for more than 17 years on the U.S. Senate Standing Committee of Press Photographers and more than 10 years as the Vice President of the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA). Jim has been arranging, editing, and shooting wire service and magazine photos of presidential campaigns for the past 10 campaign cycles and has covered virtually everyone who has run for president since the early 80s.

He has also covered every Democratic and Republican convention since 1992. His campaign photos have won awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association, the White House News Photographers Association, and Pictures of the Year.

In 2009, his campaign photo of Barack Obama and John McCain won the “Photographers Giving Back” global award for “Humoristic Photo of the Year.” Jim started his wire service and presidential campaign coverage career with UPI while going to college in Boston.

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