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A last little tease as we wrap up this first day of judging. The judges are currently watching the General News finalists. So we’ll leave you with the finalists and make you wait until the morning to find out who the winners are!
The General News finalists are:
â€A Day of My Life†Kurt Austin KGW/Portland, OR
“A Special Piece of History†Darren Durlach WBFF/Baltimore, MD
â€Busted Bikers†Jason Hanson KSTP/Minneapolis, MN
“Columbia’s Big Move†Joe O’Neill WHTM/Harrisburg, PA
“The Definition of Home†Leighton Grant WLOS/Ashville, NC
“Economy in a Box†Craig Norkus KARE/Minneapolis, MN
“Ladybugged†Eric Kehe KUSA/Denver, CO
“Lupe Vigil Hears His Name†Dave Althouse KDVR/Denver, CO
“Spring Planting†Jonathan Malat KARE/Minneapolis, MN
“That’s How Hustisford Rolls†Andrew Konkle WITI/Green Bay, WI
“Thrashers†Dan Bolsem KCCI/Des Moines, IA
Come back tomorrow for the announcement of the Small Market Station of the Year and much more!!
The judge’s just finished watching 36 Spot News stories. They narrowed that down to 10 finalists. Those finalists are:
“C’mon Son†Darren Durlach WBFF/Baltimore, MD
â€Echo Company†Donald Lee CBS News
“In Search of Cocoa†Mark Neitro KCNC/Denver, CO
“My License Plate Says Paddle†David Larson WBFF/Baltimore, MD
“Payne County Fire†Billy Dry KOKH/Oklahoma City, OK
“Polk County Rockslide†Allen Fairbanks WDEF/Chattanooga, TN
“Purse Snatching†Bryan Clemmer KTUL/Tulsa, OK
“Tough in Regular Shoes†Jesse Landolt KCCI/Des Moines, IA
“A White Knuckle Day†Jason Hanson KSTP/Minneapolis, MN
“Yeah, A Big Ol’ Dumptruck†Andy Shilts KMSP/Minneapolis, MN
From those 10 finalists they chose these 4 winners:
1st- “C’mon Son†Darren Durlach WBFF/Baltimore, MD
2nd-“In Search of Cocoa†Mark Neitro KCNC/Denver, CO
3rd-“Yeah, A Big Ol’ Dumptruck†Andy Shilts KMSP/Minneapolis, MN
HM-“My License Plate Says Paddle†David Larson WBFF/Baltimore, MD
Congrats to all the entrants, finalists, & winners!
We’re hoping to have General News still tonight…but it might be awhile. We’re on an Olympics Hockey/Dinner Break right now 
The NPPA TV BOP Photography Judges have arrived at the Poynter Institute in St. Pete, FL.
The first order of the day was to chose a winner in the Documentary category. The judges watched the entries at home and narrowed down their finalists to:
â€Americana in Focusâ€
“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Provinceâ€
“The Inside Manâ€
“A Season of the Bandâ€
“Veterans in Focusâ€
And the winners are:
1st-“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province†Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill HBO
2nd-â€Americana in Focus†Bethany Swain, Chris Turner, Jeremy Moorhead, John Bena, Mike Miller, Eddie Cortes, John Torigoe, John Bodnar, Rod Griola, Jay McMichael, Joel De La Rosa, Jerry Simonson, & Bob Crowley CNN
3rd-“The Inside Man†Noah Skinner KDVR/Denver
1st Place winning videos will be posted at Poynter.org and 2nd, 3rd, & HM winners will be posted at NPPA.org.
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The judge’s are busy packing for their flights to St. Pete to start judging the 2010 NPPA TV BOP Contest at the Poynter Institute.
This year will be a little different than past years. Watch here for updates as winner’s are announced. Monday we will be announcing the Small Market Station of the Year. Wednesday we will be announcing the Medium Market Station of the Year. Thursday we will announcing the Large Market Station of the Year.
The announcement of Editor of the Year and the Ernie Crisp Photographer of the Year will have to wait until Friday. (Sorry, we have to have a little suspense!)
We’ll also have daily chats with the judges at Poynter.org and Poynter will once again be posting all the 1st Place winning videos! New this year, you will be able to see ALL the winning videos! 2nd, 3rd, and HM will be posted on NPPA.org!   Look here for links as winner’s go up!
I would like to introduce this year’s Photography Judge’s:
Jake Carpenter’s interest in videography became an interest in photojournalism early on in his life when he was taken under the wing of the Director of Photography at KCCI in Des Moines. The entire newsroom staff at KCCI guided Jake for several years while he attended high school in West Des Moines, Iowa. During that time he co-founded CW Digital Visuals, a media production company now based in Des Moines and Chicago. He later attended the University of Iowa where he helped establish a daily, student-run newscast. In 2006 he interned at CNN in Atlanta where he filmed and edited content for air on CNN networks (CNN Domestic, International, Headline News, Espanol, etc.).
He has shadowed on the set of Sex and the City, interned at KARE in Minneapolis, contributed to a winning Emmy entry and NPPA SOY runner-up tape, and won his own first place BOP Spot News award. He’s extremely grateful to have been mentored by Cortney Kintzer; photojournalists at KCCI, KARE, and CNN; numerous NPPA members; and the late Ray Farkas.
Jake graduated from the University of Iowa in 2009 and is currently serving an 11-month term as an Americorps member for Habitat for Humanity in Jacksonville, Florida before resuming his television career.
Dave Delozier has been a reporter and photographer for 9News for the past 30 years. His career as a journalist has spanned more than 36 years. Delozier began his career as a still photographer for a newspaper in western Pennsylvania and with United Press International in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
During his time at 9News he has been involved in the daily news coverage of stories throughout the Rocky Mountain west. He has also traveled to other parts of the world to bring stories home to viewers in Colorado. He has traveled to the Middle East to produce a documentary on the birth and unrest surrounding the nation of Israel and to Japan to document the nation and its burgeoning economy. Delozier has also produced news stories for 9News in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Canada and Athens, Greece for the 2004 summer games. Two of Delozier’s more memorable assignments for 9News involved his coverage of the XXVII Olympic games in Sydney, Australia and an hour-long documentary that he produced on Pope John Paul II. The documentary on Pope John Paul II, “The Keeper of the Faith” allowed Delozier unprecedented access to the Pope and the Vatican during Holy Week.
Delozier has been recognized for his work by a wide variety of professional news organizations. He has been the recipient of twenty-one Emmys in a variety of categories. He is a five-time National Press Photographers Association Regional Television News Photographer of the Year, and in 1987 was named the National Press Photographers Association’s National Television News Photographer of the Year. Delozier has also been honored with Associated Press and Colorado Broadcasters Association awards. In 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was honored with the prestigious RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for his work at 9News.
Steve Fedoriska is a special projects photographer at KCNC-TV in Denver Colorado, where he’s been working for the last 8 years.
In 2006 he was honored as a finalist for Photographer of the Year and Editor of the Year.
Steve got his start in television as an editor at KRDO in Colorado Springs before becoming a member of KUSA’s award-winning photojournalism staff.
In his spare time he enjoys hiking and camping in Colorado with his wife Frances and his dog Fen way.
Crystal L. Lauderdale is the Video and Multimedia Product Manager for the New York Times Regional Media Group where she works with 16 small to medium newsrooms throughout the Southeast and California.
Prior to joining NYTRMG, Crystal worked for the News Center, a highly-converged newsroom comprised of The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and WFLA-TV. She became one of the company’s first fulltime multimedia journalists, producing still photos, videos and multimedia reports for all three platforms.
Following that experience, she developed and taught a hands-on video workshop designed specifically for print reporters and photographers. She has also taught video and multimedia classes for NYTRMG, The Florida Society of News Editors, City University of New York, Freelance Success and The Poytner Institute.
Crystal is a graduate of the University of Southern California. In addition to storytelling, she enjoys Ultimate Frisbee, getting to know the night sky through her new telescope and exploring the state of Florida, where she resides. She hopes to always be teaching and telling tales and enjoys collaborating with others who love good storytelling.
Peter Ross, is the senior reporter at WZZM-TV, the Gannett-owned ABC affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was formerly the news director o
f WNNE-TV in Hanover, N.H., and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Ross has attended numerous Poynter Institute, RTDNA and NPPA workshops throughout his 32 year professional career, and has won several Emmy and AP awards.
Peter is married and the father of two children. His favorite sport is whatever his son’s next game is.
This year’s Editing Judges are:
Greg T. Johnson was named the 2009 NPPA Editor of the Year. He works as a senior photographer/editor for WFAA-TV in the
Dallas-Ft. Worth market. He has worked also for KDFW-TV and KTVT-TV in D
allas, and KABB-TV in San Antonio.
Greg has been nominated for more than 30 regional Emmy’s, with more than a dozen wins. His other awards include regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, numerous regional and national NPPA Awards, Texas Associated Press Awards including Best Large Market Photojournalist. He has also been named Best Television Photojournalist with the Houston and Dallas Press Club Awards, as well as a winner of the Texas Governor’s Barbara Jordan Award and several B-roll.net awards including Best Large Market Photographer.
Jeramy Rosenberg is pleased to join NPPA Television Editor of the Year Greg T. Johnson in judging for the 2010 Best of Photojournalism Contest.
Rosenberg managed the NPPA Cutting Edge Competition for three years, and has consistently volunteered as a judge for the NPPA and other photojournalism competitions since 2003. He has spent the last 11 years working in television news and currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Heading up the Contest are:
Ram Guzman is in this 4th year at the Best of Photojournalism Television Editing Chair. Ram has served as the Chief Editor at KTVT, the CBS O & O in Dallas/Ft. Worth since 2002. He began his career in 1999 at KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi shortly after graduating from Texas A&M-Kingsville. In his career, Ram has won several NPPA BOP editing awards, 2 Emmys, 4 Press Club of Dallas Katies, and several Texas AP Broadcasters awards. In 2003, he served as a BOP TV Editing contest judge.
Ram is recently engaged and planning an October wedding.
Merry Murray is in her sixth year as the Best of Photojournalism Television contest chair.
Merry has been a photojournalist for over 18 years, starting in her home state of Kansas, working in Wichita at both KAKE-TV and KSNW-TV. After 2 years, she was looking for a new challenge and moved on to WTVQ-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, where she was able to cover events like the Kentucky Derby.
Merry also worked at WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she was the Vice President of the Michigan TV News Photographers Association (MTNPA)
Following too many cold Michigan winters, Merry moved on to work at WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. But after 3 years she decided to move closer to family and moved back to her hometown of Great Bend, Kansas where she worked at KSNC-TV, a bureau for KSNW-TV in Wichita. For 3 years she shot, wrote, and produced commercials and news. After marrying in 1994, Merry was able to move in with her husband, Wayne, by transferring to KSNW-TV and working as a photojournalist in Wichita. One of the highlights of her time back in Wichita was a trip to the Middle East with a group from McConnell Air Force Base.
Merry Murray has been an NPPA volunteer for more than 16 years. She was recently elect to the NPPA Board of Directors and Region 7 Chair. She has served as a Quarterly Contest Chair in three regions for over 11 years. Merry is also the Co-Chair and National Judging Coordinator for the TV Quarterly Contest.
During her career, Merry has won numerous awards in Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee, including NPPA Quarterly Contest awards and Emmy nomination’s.
Merry and her husband Wayne live in Wichita with their two “sons,†a West Highland Terrier, Buster, and a Black Lab, Dakota.