IHSA News Media rep wants your feedback
Rob Dicker, Staff Photographer at Pioneer Press Newspapers and the new rep for the Illinois High School Association is looking for some feedback from Illinois photographers.
Here’s his call on SportsShooter.com:
“Greeting fellow Illinois photographers (please, others just cover your eyes). I’ll be sitting on the IHSA News Media Advisory Committee for the next three years. The IHSA wanted an IPPA member to do this and it fell on my shoulders.
That’s my job, now for yours:
I need specifics: issues that have arisen in the past couple of years that made doing your job at IHSA events difficult or impossible. I need recommendations: if it is broken how can we fix it?
Everyone seems to have a horror story: “don’t stand here,” “don’t do that.” If you ask why they’ll say “cause I said so.”
I’m tired of that and I’ll bet you are too, and more importantly, I want that to end. We act professionally doing our job - I’d like officials to do the same.
I want to purpose updated rules regarding field access, remotes, strobing and credentialing. But the best thing that I can do when I walk in to a meeting is to come prepared and that is where you come in.
Please assist me. The first meeting will be held sometime in August, but at this point I don’t know when. I’d like to start compiling and preparing for it now.
Thanks in advance for your assistance, together, I know that we can make thing better.
Rob Dicker
Staff Photographer, Pioneer Press Newspapers”