Picture Editing Division – 2024 Proposed Categories
NOTE: These are the proposed categories for the 2024 cycle. You can submit a comment on this form until November 6, 2023.
The Best of Photojournalism’s Photo Editing division recognizes teams and individuals who practice and promote great photojournalism and storytelling through excellent picture editing.
Photo editing is an inherently collaborative process. It starts with the conception and assignment of an idea with a photographer or photographers. Photo editors must then identify the best pictures and organize and shepherd them to the public eye through a balance of risk and restraint. They ensure that text, pictures, design and layout all work together to tell the story with impact. The act of editing may be a team effort, or it may be performed by an individual, but it is never completely in isolation.
Judges will consider design, layout and innovative uses of technology, but will weigh most heavily the quality of storytelling and how the photos have been considered, sequenced, and presented. Entries, whether featuring original photography or photo research or a mix, will be judged based on how effectively the photos and storytelling inform and entertain the reader.
Submissions for the Magazine and Newspaper categories should be in the form of a single PDF file with multiple pages, where appropriate. Digital category entries should be in the form of one (or more) URLs. For sites with a paywall, you will need to provide a login and password for judges to access the site.
For all categories, you’ll have the opportunity to tell the story of how these presentations came to be. This is a place where editors can talk about behind-the-scenes work that was done by them or their team to get the photographer to a place to make great pictures, the designer to agree to the space, all the unseen work that is a big part of picture editing.
Please refer to the Guidelines section of the competition website for more details, and contact b[email protected] for more information or questions about the contest.
These categories are print-focused and are open to all media organizations or outlets. Submissions should be in the form of a single PDF file with multiple pages, where appropriate. One element includes one story, page, section or project.
Newspaper Front Page: The front page of the newspaper.
Newspaper Section Front: The front page of other sections of the newspaper (e.g., features, sports, business, local news, etc.).
Newspaper General News Story: Coverage of an individual news event or issue. Single or multiple pages.
Newspaper Feature Story: Coverage of a non-news event that captures daily life or stories that bring dignity to the human spirit. Include Sports here. Single or multiple pages.
Magazine Cover: Best use of photography on a magazine cover.
Magazine General News Story: Coverage of an individual news event or issue. Single or multiple pages.
Magazine Feature Story: Coverage of a non-news event that captures daily life or stories that bring dignity to the human spirit. Include Sports here. Single or multiple pages.
Digital
These categories are digital-only entries and are open to all media organizations or outlets. Video and audio that are a part of the entry may or may not be watched and considered, and the still photography and its presentation will carry the primary weight.
General News Story: Daily coverage of an individual news event or issue.
Feature Story: Daily coverage of a non-news event that captures daily life or that brings dignity to the human spirit. Include sports here.
Digital Project: This entry can be news, features or sports. It is not for content generated by a single daily assignment, but a longer-termed story told digitally.
Portfolio
Picture Editing Team of the Year, International: Best use of photography from two or more editors. The stories included must represent photography made in at least two countries. Please include entries that represent three or more months out of the calendar year. There is a maximum of 10 elements.
Picture Editing Team of the Year, National: Best use of photography from two or more editors. The stories included must represent photography made in only the publication’s country. Please include entries that represent three or more months out of the calendar year. There is a maximum of 10 elements.
Picture Editing Team of the Year, Local/Community: Best use of photography from two or more editors. The stories included must represent photography made in and for the publication’s local community. Please include entries that represent three or more months out of the calendar year. There is a maximum of 10 elements.
Picture Editor of the Year, International: Best use of photography from a single editor. The stories included must represent photography made in at least two countries. Please include entries that represent three or more months out of the calendar year. There is a maximum of 7-urls.
Picture Editor of the Year, National: Best use of photography from a single editor. The stories included must represent photography made in only the publication’s country. Please include entries that represent three or more months out of the year. There is a maximum of 10 elements.
Picture Editor of the Year, Local/Community: Best use of photography from a single editor. The stories included must represent photography made in and for the publication’s local community. Please include entries that represent three or more months out of the year. There is a maximum of 10 elements.
NOTE: These are the proposed categories for the 2024 cycle. You can submit a comment on this form until November 6, 2023.
