Ali Ghanbari is an Iranian-American photojournalist at WJW-TV, Fox O&O in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

, USA since 1994.

From 1982 to 1994 he was at WKEF-TV, NBC in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

. He has been recognized with over 400 awards from professional journalism organizations. Ghanbari won National Press Photographers Association 1996 national award for general news] He was named NPPA Region 4 POY runner-up in 2000 and 2003.

He is only six-time Ohio News Photographers Association POY 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 national 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, Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. It is known as a vacation destination for both American and foreign tourists. As of 2008, the population estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau is 245,314, making St...

. and the Eyes of History 2006 White House News Photographers Association in Washington, DC.