From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners:
1st Place, Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year – INDIVIDUAL
The Dallas Morning News, Brad Loper
Category: Contests
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year – Brad Loper
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Editing – Newspaper Sports Winners
From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners:
1st Place, Newspaper Sports project
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Best Published Picture Story (smaller markets)
Richard Jones/sinopix/sinopix-
Fifteen year-old Lou Li poses. Lou Li spent 8 months forcibly married to a farmer in Yunnan, West China. Lou Li was tricked away from her home and sold to the farmer for 6,500 rnb in September 2006 and escaped in April 2007. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Best Published Picture Story (large markets)
Melissa Lyttle/St. Petersburg Times-
For the first seven years of her life, Danielle never saw the sun, felt the wind or tasted solid food. She was kept in a closet in a Plant City apartment, cloistered in darkness, left in a dirty diaper, fed only with a bottle. “She was a ferral child,” said Carolyn Eastman of the Tampa heart Gallery. “We’d never seen a case like that.” -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Cliff Edom’s ‘New America Award’
Carl Kiilsgaard/Western Kentucky University –
The White family has lived outside of Whitesburg, Ky., for generations. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – General News
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (large markets)
Carol Guzy/The Washington Post-
“Every minute, every hour, pregnant women die in Sierra Leone,” says Amadu Sesay, brother of Jemelleh Saccoh who arrived with her aunt at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown with pregnancy complications for an emergency Caesarean section. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – International News Picture Story, HM
Jerome Delay/Associated Press-
Fighting between rebels and the government has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid in Congo. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (smaller markets)
Ramin Rahimian/Freelance-
In the early morning of October 20, 2006, six days before his 21st birthday, the Humvee Iraqi translator Diyar al-Bayati was riding in during a routine patrol came under attack by a roadside bomb and an ambush.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing
Jenn Ackerman-
TRAPPED: The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go. This project goes inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit at the Kentucky State Reformatory to see how a state is meeting the needs of this growing population. -
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – 1st Place, Domestic News Picture Story
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – 1st Place, Environmental Picture Story
Residents and rescue workers evacuate from the centre of earthquake-hit Beichuan county,Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. Thousands fled amid fears a lake would burst its banks in Beichuan, near the epicentre of China’s earthquake in which a total 50,000 people may have died, a Reuters photographer said. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt. People were told to flee to the hillsides in a public announcement. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Post-Dispatch photographer wins in Best of Photojournalism | PICTURES | STLtoday
Laurie Skrivan has won first place in the Photo Illustration category of the National Press Photographers Association annual Best of Photojournalism competition.
