First Month's Results Of The New Digital MNCC Go Live

 

DURHAM, NC (April 2, 2008) - In January, NPPA announced that its popular and long-standing Monthly News Clip Contest was going digital beginning with that month's entries. And now the digital results of the first month of the online MNCC are coming in from the Regional judges.

As each Region is judged and the results are final, they go live in a gallery on the NPPA Web site. Results are already up for five of NPPA's Regions and the rest of the month's results will automatically add on to the page as Regional clip chairpersons post them.

NPPA president Tony Overman had made the digitalization of the MNCC one of his top priorities since being elected.

"It took longer than we wanted, but NPPA has finally switched the last of its national photography contests online. Entry will be easier, judging should go faster, and publishing all winners will be immediate," Overman said when he announced the move to the Web. "One of the biggest problems of the old contest was that newspaper and magazine clips were unintentionally (and sometimes intentionally) rewarded for good presentation. That’s something over which most photographers have little or no control."

The MNCC digital contest page is here, and the rules are online here.

The general entry deadline will be the 7th of each month (so pictures taken in February will be due by March 7, pictures taken in March will be April 7, etc.).
Once the entry period ends, judges can log in individually and on the contest page they can rank the entries. The individual judges' votes will be combined into a finalists' list, and the judges can then walk through the finalists as a group and discuss the entries, resolve ties, and come up with the final ranking and winners.
Then when the judges are finished, the Regional MNCC chairs can log in and confirm the winners. When that happens, point totals and winners' Web pages will be updated automatically.

For years the contest required that participants "clip" their photographs from their publication and mail the paper entry to a Regional contest chair. Once each 11 NPPA Regions were judged by Regional judges, the top winners in each category were mailed to a National MNCC clip chairperson who had the responsibility of finding another set of judges to pick the National winning clips. The process was cumbersome, time consuming, and by the time large envelopes of clips were mailed back and forth across the country the reporting of winners' names and displaying their photographs could take up to a year.

That not the case now that the MNCC has gone digital. Entering the MNCC and judging and displaying the winners is all being done online. Some of the top winners will still be published in News Photographer magazine each month, sometimes as one of the Opening Shots features, editor Donald R. Winslow said, instead of the 10 to 11 pages the MNCC took up in the magazine historically.

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