NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2010 Web Site Winners

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Honorable Mention, News Audio Slideshow: Finbarr O'Reilly/GlobalPost.com

Judging for the BOP 2010 Web Site entries has wrapped up at the Poynter Institute. Congratulations to all the winners!
Special congratulations go out to:
- The Washington Post, producers of the Best Video: Mexico At War
- The LA Times, producers of the Best Audio Slideshow: Waiting to Die
- UNC Chapel Hill, producers of the Best Multimedia Package: Powering a Nation, and the judges' pick for the overall Best Use of the Web award
The BOP Web Site judges participated in a live chat with Poynter's Kenny Irby and Regina McCombs on Friday, March 26. In addition to sharing the contest highlights and trends, judges will talked about what qualities they looked for in winning entries.
Read the archived chat

Best of Photojournalism 2010 Winners

With a keen awareness of the challenges faced by all journalists and their organizations in 2009, the judges worked diligently to award the very best work during difficult times, and still uphold standards we all value.

Several 'Natural Disaster' categories were originally included in the contest this year, but there were very few entries. The contest committee decided to dissolve those categories and move those entries to the appropriate news categories.

In several cases, the judges did not make awards at all after finding entries to be below the minimum bar of excellence for which this contest stands. In other cases, they chose not to award a first place but included subsequent places for work that was the best in the category. It is our hope that in these situations, the entries that did place will be closely examined so as to establish a benchmark for the level of excellence in storytelling we seek.
Jack Rowland, Contest chair

Multimedia Packages

Highlights the use of audio, video and animation in the presentation of web-based stories. Judges will pay special attention to the use of available technology to complement and enhance the art of visual storytelling.

Entries may include single galleries, slideshows or video, as well as packages that include multiple elements that were grouped and published together as a single story or theme.

Content, usability, and interactivity are key to this celebration of cutting-edge storytelling.

News or Feature Multimedia Package

Web Video Photography

Video storytelling produced for the web, that takes advantage of the strengths of the medium and manages its weaknesses

Audio Slideshows

Audio-enhanced photographic story-telling presented in a gallery or slideshow format. Animation can be used only to advance from one photograph to another.

The emphasis here is on presenting great News, Sports and Feature photographs with the additional level of detail that audio can provide.

There is no video allowed in this category.

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