Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Begins Sunday
DURHAM, NC (March 19, 2010) – Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA's 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition will begin Sunday at the contest's host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL.
This year some 3,000 entrants from 147 countries submitted more than 50,000 still images, video, and Web entries in the 2010 Best of Photojournalism competition.
NPPA's Best Of Photojournalism has remained a free contest with no entry fees since it's beginning.
Winners of each day's categories will be announced daily here on the NPPA Web site. The Sports Photojournalist of the Year will be judged on Tuesday, and the Photojournalists of the Year (Large and Small Markets) and the winner of Cliff Edom's "New America Award" will be announced at the end of the week.
In last year's contest, freelance photojournalist Walter Astrada was the NPPA BOP Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets) and James Gregg of the Arizona Daily Star was the Photojournalist of the Year (Smaller Markets), and Carl Kiilsgaard of Western Kentucky University won Cliff Edom's "New America Award." Quinn Rooney of Getty Images AsiaPac was picked as the Sports Photojournalist of the Year.
Best Of Photojournalism judging at Poynter, the contest's host site, has been coordinated by Thomas Kenniff, who is NPPA's director of sales and contests, and NPPA's executive director Jim Straight, along with Poynter's Kenneth Irby and Al Tompkins.
This year's judges for the 2010 Best Of PhotojournalismStill Photography categories are California-based freelance photojournalist Donald Miralle; Sherman Williams, the assistant managing editor for visual journalism at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Sandy Ciric, a senior news editor at Getty Images; and Monte Trammer, the recently retired publisher of Gannett Co. Inc., who now lives in Florida.
Judges for the Web categories are Alexandra Garcia, an Emmy-nominated video and multimedia journalist for The Washington Post; Phaedra Singelis, a supervising producer for MSNBC.com; John Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who now teaches at the University of Florida; Mike Stocker, an award-winning photojournalist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Theresa Collington, the executive producer online for Tampa's WTSP-TV; and Vidisha Priyanka, an editor for Tampa Bay Online.
The Web category judging is being coordinated by Regina McCombs, a Poynter faculty member who teaches multimedia, and Jack Rowland, a senior video producer for the St. Petersburg Times.
In early March during Best Of Photojournalismjudging of the 2010 Television and Editing categories at Poynter, Darren Durlach of WBFF-TV in Baltimore was picked as the Best Of Photojournalism 2010 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, and Shawn Montano was named BOP's TV Video Editor of the Year.
During that same judging KARE-TV of Minneapolis was named Station of the Year (Large Markets), WAVY-TV of Portsmouth, VA, was named Station of the Year (Medium Markets), and KTUU-TV of Anchorage was named Station of the Year (Small Markets).
NPPA's 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition is sponsored this year by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, ibiblio, Camera Bits, Ohio University, and the St. Petersburg Times.
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