Jim is a 1977 graduate of Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism, with an area of specialization in Photojournalism. He has a minor in Visual Communications.
Jim has made a career of newspaper photography. After graduating from BGSU, he worked for 18 months at The Telegraph in Painesville, Ohio, which is about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland. He left Painesville to begin working for The Kentucky Post and Cincinnati Post in 1979. He spent over 28 years recording life in Greater Cincinnati for those papers, until they shut their doors for good December 31, 2007.
The Post was owned by Scripps-Howard, a media giant with newspapers spread across the country. In 1983, Jim was named Scripps-Howard Photographer of the Year by judges from outside the organization.
During his time in Cincinnati, he has photographed just about anything a reader might see in the paper. The Reds. The Bengals. UC, Xavier, Kentucky and NKU sports. Fires, shootings, riots, floods – they’ve all been seen through Jim’s lens.
He’s photographed every President of the United States since Gerald Ford, and every Governor of Kentucky since Julian Carroll. He has traveled across the country to cover myriad events for Post readers. He’s been to Mexico and war-torn Bosnia on assignment.
And he’s photographed weddings -- when they came looking for him. Every wedding he has done has come to him because someone who has seen his work has felt good about contacting him or passing his name to a person in need of wedding photographs.
Jim and Sharlee Osborn make their home in Florence, Kentucky. They have a daughter Megan, and son Matthew.
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