{"id":712,"date":"2018-08-05T18:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=712"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:55:06","slug":"visual-task-force-auction-hits-a-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/visual-task-force-auction-hits-a-new-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Task Force auction hits a new high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By ANFERNEE PATTERSON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NABJ Monitor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DETROIT \u2014The Visual Task Force of the National Association of Black Journalists has raised its highest amount of pre-event funding for its Photography Auction than it has since the auction\u2019s inception. This year\u2019s auction will be held today at 1 p.m. in the Mackinac ballroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, the annual photo auction displays pictures taken by photojournalists of color as well as donated pictures to raise money for scholarships, equipment and other resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jarrad Henderson, the task force\u2019s president, credited the team\u2019s growth to the auction\u2019s continued success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe auction is wonderful and we raise a lot of money every year, but the biggest thing for us is impact,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cHow can we help our students get to where they want and need to be?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The auction has raised more than $1 million in the past 25 years, he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI believe that the growth not only in the organization and willingness to allow the young students to learn from professionals definitely helps the quality of content and how people like it,\u201d Henderson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As one of NABJ\u2019s largest task forces, the Visual Task Force was created to provide a venue for visual journalists in the areas of photojournalism, design and informational graphics, broadcast photojournalism and visual leadership for newspaper, magazine, broadcast and online publications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By ANFERNEE PATTERSON NABJ Monitor &nbsp; DETROIT \u2014The Visual Task Force of the National Association of Black Journalists has raised its highest amount of pre-event funding for its Photography Auction than it has since the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/visual-task-force-auction-hits-a-new-high\/\" title=\"Visual Task Force auction hits a new high\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,80],"tags":[44],"class_list":{"0":"post-712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"category-features","9":"category-nabj-18","10":"tag-nabj18"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}