Best of Photojournalism 2005: Web Editing Winners

This year's Best of Photojournalism on the Web Contest was the most competitive ever. The quality of entries was universally high across the 130 or so we judged, with very little separation between the winners within each division (large and small affiliated, unaffiliated), and very little difference between the divisions themselves.

The change is most evident in the awarding of a photoblog with an honorable mention in the Unaffiliated News Picture Story category (Just Married; Ephemera); as well as the judge's choice of Haiti Turns 200, by the Unaffiliated website Blueeyes Magazine, as the contest's 'Best Picture Story' winner.

Every one of the judges was excited by these changes, and we believe we have clearly passed a turning point where the question of 'will our news organization have a website' has been replaced by 'how good will our website be'. On the question of quality in this year's contest, The New York Times on the Web captured the title of 'Best Use of the Web' "through the sheer quality and quantity of multimedia storytelling they produced throughout the 2004 year."