BOP TV Contest Judging Starts Next Week, Along With Free Training for Video Journalists
ST. PETERSBURG, FL (February 29, 2008) - Judging in the television categories in the National Press Photographers Association's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism contest begins next week at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL.
This year there's a special bonus: Poynter's Al Tompkins will host a live, inside look at the judging Monday through Friday at noon Eastern Standard Time in a series called "Lessons From A Contest." The daily conversation with the judges begings Monday, March 3, at 12 noon EST online at www.newsu.org/NPPAbroadcast08.
"I will interview nationally known photojournalists and editors who are judging this year's contest. We will find out what impressed the judges, what ethical issues arose in this year's entries, and how the backpack journalist trend is affecting photojournalism," Tompkins said.
"Again this year, judges will look at more Web-based video than ever. These 15-minute News University Webinars with the judges are perfect and free training sessions for your staff and for TV journalism classrooms."
The Webinars will be archived on the Web site, so you can still see them at your convenience if you can't catch the "live" broadcast.
The winning videos will be posted on the Poynter Web site starting on Tuesday, March 4.
The NPPA Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, the Video Editor of the Year, and the three Stations of the Year (for markets small, medium, and large) will be announced on Friday.
Tompkins is the author "Al's Morning Meeting" on Poynter Online, and he's the Broadcast & Online group leader for the Institute. He's also the author of "Aim for the Heart: A Guide for TV Producers and Reporters."
Judges for the television and photography categories of NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism this year are veteran freelancer Tim Griffis, who has worked for network and corporate clients as well as being on the NPPA Flying Short Course faculty; Bob Gould, formerly of WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, MI, who now teaches broadcasting at Michigan State University; and Emmy Award-winner Jeff Roberts of KMBC-TV in Kansas City, who is also a still photojournalist who shoots for newspapers and magazines.
Additional judges include Emmy Award-winner and Murrow Award-winner Preston Rudie of WTSP-TV in Tampa Bay; WHP-TV chief photographer Nellie Stinson from Harrisburg, PA; Emmy Award-winner Ram Guzman, who is KTVT-TV's chief editor in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, as well as serving as NPPA's Best Of Photojournalism TV Editing chair; writer, producer and director Lori Kay Allred of Denver, CO, who creates content for HGTV and Fine Living Network, who previously worked as chief editor for KPHO-TV5 in Phoenix and at KMGH-TV7 in Denver; and John Hyjek of NBC News in Atlanta, a three-time winner of NPPA's Video Editor of the Year award and a three-time Emmy Award winner.
The contest is coordinated for the fourth year by Merry Murray of KSNW-TV in Wichita, KS, who has been an NPPA volunteer for more than 15 years and served on NPPA's board of directors as Region 7's associate director.
For more information on NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism contest please contact Thomas Kenniff at contests@nppa.org.
The Best Of Photojournalism is sponsored by Canon, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and the National Press Photographers Association.
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