Final Winners In Best Of Photojournalism 2009 Picture Editing Categories Announced
By Donald R. Winslow
© 2009 News Photographer magazine
ATHENS, OH (April 8, 2009) – Brad Loper of The Dallas Morning News has been named the National Press Photographers Association's Best Of Photojournalism 2009 Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Individual), and Robert Csere of .týždeň is the Magazine Picture Editor of the Year.
And the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Team) award this year goes to Justin Rumbach and John Rumbach of The Herald in Jasper, IN.
The Herald also won the Best Use of Photography category for newspapers with less than 75,000 circulation, and The New York Times won Best Use of Photography for the category of newspapers with more than 75,000 circulation.
Best Use of Photography in the magazine category this year was won by Newsweek.
Other top finishers in the Best Use of Photography for newspapers with less than 75,000 are The Concord Monitor in second place and the Midland Daily News in third place. Honorable mention was awarded to the Naples Daily News.
In the Best Use of Photography for newspapers with more than 75,000 circulation, second place is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and third place is The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN. An honorable mention was awarded to The Denver Post.
The second place finish for Seattle Post-Intelligencer is bittersweet, as the newspaper discontinued print publication on March 17 and continues today only as a Web site. More than 170 journalists lost their jobs when the 146-year-old P-I shut down.
Other top finishers in the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Individual) category are Judy DeHaas of The Rocky Mountain News in second place, and Ryan Wood of the Midland Daily News in third place. An honorable mention was awarded to Ken Lyons of The Denver Post.
DeHaas moved to The Denver Post now that The Rocky Mountain News has been closed by E.W. Scripps.
In the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Team) category, second place is The New York Times with Michele McNally, Beth Flynn, and the Times' team of picture editors. Third place is the Los Angeles Times with Colin Crawford and the Times' picture editing team.
The Virginian-Pilot swept the Single-Page News category winning first, second, and third place in addition to two honorable mentions. The Denver Post also won an honorable mention in this category.
Top first-place winners in a few of the other Newspaper Picture Editing categories include the Los Angeles Times for Multi-Page News; The Rocky Mountain News for Newspaper Front Page; The Palm Beach Post in the Newspaper Special Section or Reprint category; The Virginian-Pilot for Newspaper Sports Section Front; and The Palm Beach Post for Newspaper Sports Project.
About the Newspaper Front Page category, judge John Rumbach said, "The strength of the winning pages was that the photographs selected quickly communicated the story of the day. The winning pages used good picture selection to provide the visual impact to pull viewers onto the page. The Rocky Mountain News pages were particularly good at using pictures and headlines that spoke as one."
The New York Times swept the Newspaper Recurring Feature or Series category with first, second, and third places. Honorable mentions were awarded to The Virginian-Pilot and the Los Angeles Times.
Top first-place winners in a few of the other Magazine Picture Editing categories include The St. Petersburg Times for Magazine Cover; Newsweek for Magazine News Story; .týždeň for Magazine Story Opener; Newsweek for Magazine Sports Story; and The Seattle Times for Magazine Personality Profile or Lifestyle Story.
This year 3,700 journalists from 147 countries submitted 53,000 still images, video, and Web entries in the 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition.
Judging in the picture editing categories at the Ohio University School of Visual Communication (VisCOm) was coordinated by OU associate professor Stan Alost and VisCom director Terry Eiler. Judges for these categories were John Rumbach, editor and co-publisher of The Herald in Japser, IN; Sue Morrow of the Sacramento Bee; Bronwen Latimer of Any Chance Productions; and Jennifer Poggi, a Knight Fellow at OU who soon will begin working at the White House Photography Office.
A complete list of winners in all Picture Editing categories is online here.
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The Best Of Photojournalism 2009 competition and judging was sponsored by Apple's Aperture, Canon, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, the St. Petersburg Times, and the National Press Photographers Association.
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