New Video Online About NPPA's Best Of Photojournalism Judging

 

 

DURHAM, NC (April 7, 2009) – A new video about the judging of the National Press Photographers Association's Best Of Photojournalism 2009's still photography and Web categories at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is now available online.

The video was created by Maurice Rivenbark with the support of his newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, and photography director Boyzell Hosey.

Also, National Public Radio has done a story on the Best Of Photojournalism 2009's judging and a slideshow about the winners is online here.

This year's judges for the Best Of Photojournalism still photography categories were Dudley Brooks, the photography director for Ebony/Jet Publishing; 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winner Renée C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee; Amsterdam-based photojournalist Peter Dejong of the Associated Press; and Tim Rasmussen, the assistant managing editor of photography for The Denver Post. California-based freelance sports photojournalist Donald Miralle, who was one of the judges for the first three days of the competition, had to return home for a family emergency. He was replaced on the judging panel by a substitute judge, 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Deanne Fitzmaurice. She is a member of NPPA's BOP Contest Committee, and was a BOP judge for the contest last year too.

Web category judges this year were Michelle Maitais, the editorial broadcast manager for the Los Angeles Times; Margarita Corporan, a senior photo editor for US Weekly magazine; Shannon Perich, the associate curator of the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History; Jennifer Crandall, a videojournalist for Washingtonpost.com; Vidisha Priyanka, an audience editor for Tampa Bay Online; and Regina McCombs, a Poynter Institute faculty member. Judging of the Web categories was coordinated by NPPA Contest Committee member Keith W. Jenkins, a supervising senior producer for National Public Radio.

Best Of Photojournalism judging at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the contest's host site, was coordinated by Thomas Kenniff, who is NPPA's director of sales and contests, and NPPA's executive director Jim Straight, along with Poynter's Kenny Irby and Al Tompkins.

This year 3,700 journalists from 147 countries submitted 53,000 still images, video, and Web entries in the 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition.

Judges in the Still Photography categories used Apple's Aperture to view and select the winning images.

The Best Of Photojournalism competition and judging was sponsored by Apple, 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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