Jim Stout is a veteran of 30-plus years of sports writing, editing and photography in the New York-New England region.
A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin College of Communications, Stout is presently the MaxPreps.com Media Manager for the Eastern United States, as well as a photographer and columnist.
He began his communications career in the mid-1970s, working as both a writer and photographer in Connecticut, then spent the next 15 years as a daily newspaper reporter and freelance writer covering the National Hockey League in the Northeast. He later moved into the Internet writing, editing and publishing fields in the 1990s before returning to the photography medium in 2004.
Stout was a reporter and photographer for the Danbury (CT) News-Times from 1977 to 2006. He also covered the NHL for the Middletown (NY) Times-Herald-Record during the 1980s and early 1990s.
In addition, Stout served for a number of years as a Northeast columnist for D3Hoops.com and for D3Football.com, and was the publisher of the former scholastic web site JSportsline.com. More recently, he wrote for the Stamford (CT) Advocate.
In 1989, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in sports reporting.
Equipment: Nikon D2X and D2H camera bodies. Nikon 80-400, Sigma 122-300 f/2.8, Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 and Nikon 24-120 lenses. Nikon SB-80DX and SB-800 Speedlights. Pocket Wizard IIs. Quantum battery packs. Windows and Mac OSs. On-site editing and customer/coach support service, remote wireless uploads.
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