February, 2009 Archive

NPPA Photojournalism Award for Reporting and Judge’s Choice

February 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

Four years ago we added the NPPA Photojournalism Award for Reporting.  Each year the entries keep getting better and better.  The judges came up with 6 great finalists.  
Kyle Clark KUSA Denver
Joe Fryer  KARE Minneapolis
Eric Hanson KCCI Des Moines
Boyd Huppert  KARE Minneapolis
Jason Moore KTUU Anchorage
Brad Woodard  KHOU Houston
They narrowed it down to three and that’s [...]

And the winners are……

February 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

 
 
 
It’s been a great week of judging over 700 entries in the 2009 NPPA TV BOP contest.  I consider myself to be very lucky to get to do this every year.  Not only do I get to see some of the best of the best in storytelling, I get to share the week with some [...]

Web Editing Winners

February 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

The Editing Judges finished up their year of judging with the Web categories.
Here are the winners:
WEB 48 HR. EDITING WINNERS
1st-”Praying for Benazir” Travis Fox  washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/01/03/VI2008010301702.html
2nd-”Washington Sketch: Capitol Hill Gets Exercised” Michael Akira  washingtonpost.com 
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/07/25/VI2008072500916.html
3rd-”Walter Harris Funeral” Brian Kaufman Detroit Free Press
www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=videonetwork&videoid=936160910
HM-”Jazzing it Up”  Aaron Chimbell WFAA Dallas
  www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=212399&noad=yes
HM-”In Beichuan, China, the Agony of Surviving”  Travis Fox  [...]

Photographer of the Year, Editor of the Year, and Station of the Year

February 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

Don’t forget to join in on tomorrow’s live chat to find out the winners of the Ernie Crisp Photographer of the Year, the Editor of the Year, and the 3 Station’s of the Year.  
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=158888
All of the finalists, winners, and judges’ comments will be posted at:
http://bop.nppa.org/2009/tv_and_web_video/news_photography/winners/    and
http://bop.nppa.org/2009/tv_and_web_video/editing/winners/

Thursday Afternoon Winners

February 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

The Editing judges finished up the Photo Essay (Editors) category today and came away with only one winner.  Greg T. Johnson (WFAA) took that top spot with ” Bonny the Buglar”
The Photography judges have spent most of the morning and afternoon watching the four categories of web entries.  
Here are the results and the web [...]

Web Entries

February 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

 
This morning the Photography judges are working their way through almost 100 web entries in four different categories.  There have been some very interesting discussions during this time.  As TV photographers and reporters, the judge’s have an eye for what makes good story telling.  A lot of these stories are told in a very different [...]

More Winners for Wednesday

February 25th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

The Editing Judges just wrapped up the News Feature category that includes an Editor and Photographer side to it.
In the Editor’s Side, Greg T. Johnson from WFAA was the winner with “He Saved Five Lives”.   Jason Hanson from KSTP  took 2nd with “Korean Reunion”.   And WJW’s Matt Rafferty rounded out the group with [...]

Wednesday of TV BOP Judging

February 25th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

Greetings from Sunny Florida!  I only know it’s sunny because we took a group picture in front of Poynter first thing this morning.
 
The Photography judges are starting out the day watching the Small Market Station of the Year entries.  We hope to tackle General and POY yet today.  (I’m being VERY hopeful!)  
The Editing Judges [...]

More Editing Winners

February 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

 
The Editing judges wrapped up 2 more categories this afternoon.  
 
Steve Rhodes (WTHR) took top spot in the Editors Effects Category with “Defining Dillinger”.  Other winners in this category were:
 
2nd-“Tragic Teens”  Brad Swagger  KMSP  Minneapolis
3rd-“Lindale” Matt Rafferty  WJW Cleveland
HM-“After the Burn”  Jason Hanson  KSTP Minneapolis
HM-”Search for Enlightenment” Steve Rhodes  WTHR Indianapolis
 
In General News Simple Effects [...]

More Results

February 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

 
The Editing Judges have had a busy morning watching Photo Essays, shot and edited by the photographer.    Doug Burgess (WFAA) took 1st with “Invisible Voices” and Troy Hale from Michigan State University placed 2nd with “Formula Racing”
 
In General News Simple Effects (Editors) the judges chose not to award any winners.  They felt each of [...]