March clip contest results are in
Fred Squillante from The Columbus Dispatch was the big winner in the March ONPA monthly clip contest. Squillante won first and second in the feature category and placed first in general news to pick up 142 points. Bill Lackey of the Springfield News-Sun also had three wins to put himself in fourth place just ahead of Squillante.
Chris Russell from The Columbus Dispatch placed first in illustration and maintains a slight lead over co-worker Kyle Robertson.
The winning images will be posted as soon as they are received. The February gallery is now posted..
Top Ten (unofficial standings)
1st - Chris Russell, The Columbus Dispatch - 316
2nd - Kyle Robertson, The Columbus Dispatch - 296
3rd - Neal C. Lauron, The Columbus Dispatch - 236
4th - Bill Lackey, Springfield News-Sun - 196
5th - Marshall Gorby, Springfield News-Sun - 176
Fred Squillante, The Columbus Dispatch - 176
7th - Eric Albrecht, The Columbus Dispatch - 156
Phil Masturzo, Akron Beacon Journal - 156
8th - Lisa Dejong, The Plain Dealer - 146
9th - Jonathan Quilter, The Columbus Dispatch - 136
10th - Tom Dodge, The Columbus Dispatch - 84
Chan, Joeright, Graham, Miller and Bullock best in AP contest
Newspapers in Columbus, Canton, Sandusky, Ashland and Washington Court House were named the best in the state Sunday in the annual Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2009 went to The Columbus Dispatch, The (Canton) Repository, the Sandusky Register, the Ashland Times-Gazette and the Washington Court House Record Herald.
Best Photographer awards went to Gus Chan of The Plain Dealer, Maribeth Joeright, of The (Willoughby) News-Herald, Nick Graham, of The Middletown Journal, James Miller, The Marion Star and Bryan Bullock, The Delaware Gazette.Best Online Photojournalist awards went to Stacy Doose, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Michael Blair, The (Willoughby) News-Herald, Trevor Jones, Zanesville Times Recorder, Lindsay Niegelberg, Chillicothe Gazette, and Brandy Chandler, Hillsboro Times-Gazette.
Sixty-five daily newspapers submitted 2,794 entries in the contest, which featured news and sports stories, features, editorials, columns, graphics and photos from 2009. Entries were judged by editors from the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press, Division V; the Huntsville (Ala.) Times, Division IV; the Cecil Whig, Elkton, Md., Division III; The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., and the Johnstown (Penn.) Tribune-Democrate, Division II; and the News and Messenger, Manassas, Va., Division I.
Complete Results
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Tweets are all the buzz these days and ONPA will now have a Twitter presence.
Thanks to the efforts of Malinda Hartong from the Cincinnati Enquirer you can now share your videos, galleries, links and thoughts with ONPA members and our followers. For all you tweeters, you can either do an @OHNPA mention or DM. If your tweetless right now and don't have a twitter account send an email to social@onpa.org and Malinda can retweet out your links.
Also send your twitter addresses to social@onpa.org so we can post for #FollowFriday, etc.
Widgetshave be added to the ONPA website and this blog for a direct link. This should prove to be quite popular. We already have 20 followers in a few short days since the account was set up without any promotion at all.
The next step in the process of reaching out is an ONPA Facebook page. Stephanie Krell from the Record Courier in Ravenna will be the administrator for that project. We will alert everyone as soon as that is up and running.
Ritter repeats as ONPA Television Photographer of the Year
Jeff Ritter from WBNS-TV in Columbus has gone back to back, winning the ONPA Television Photographer of the Year title for his work in 2009.
The win by Ritter completes a sweep for WBNS as Steve Maguire earlier won the Quarterly Clip Contest Photographer of the Year title and the station was named as ONPA Station of the Year.
There must be something in the water on Twin Rivers Drive as the station has been either first or second in the Station of the Year competition every year since 2000. The station held eight of the top ten positions in the final point standings in the Quarterly Clip Contest.
This marks the first year in the contest when there were no winners in the individual contest categories due to minimal participation in that portion of the contest. Contest chairman Bill Reagan consulted with the ONPA board and it was decided that only the Sation of the Year and POY categories would be judged.
A link for Ritter's award winning work will be posted soon. Jim Douglas, Ali Ghanbari and David Bradford have each won POY titles in three consecutive years so Ritter can join some elite company with another title in 2010. It appears as there is anough talent around him at WBNS-TV that motivation won't be an issue. News Operations Manager Tim Moushey will see to that.
Squillante, Lackey and Gorby win ONPA POY titles for 2009
Fred Squillante from The Columbus Dispatch, Bill Lackey and Marshall Gorby from the Springfield News-Sun have earned ONPA Photographer of the Year awards for their work in 2009.
Squillante won the large market POY title for his portfolio followed by Gus Chan, (2nd) and John Kuntz, (3rd) from The Plain Dealer and Michael E. Keating (Award of Excellence) from the Cincinnati Enquirer. It is Squillante’s second POY title, winning previously in 1997.
Lackey won the small market title in the first year the POY category was split based on daily circulation. Marshall Gorby from the Springfield News-Sun and placed second and Kent State University student Tessa Bargainnier placed third.
Gorby also won the monthly clip contest POY title with Eric Albrecht from The Columbus Dispatch placing second and Chris Russell from The Dispatch placing third. Gorby had placed second or third four times in the past five years in winning is first POY title..
Gus Chan won the James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award for "Catholic Church Closings", which told the story of a the downsizing of the Diocese of Cleveland, with the closing of more than 50 churches.
Diego James Robles from Ohio University won the Student Photographer of the Year award for the second year in a row.. Kent State University’s Tessa Bargainnier placed second and Laura Torchia, placing third.
Eric Albrecht of The Columbus Dispatch was awarded Best of Show in the contest for his first place general news winner of a child receiving a H1N1 vaccine.
As predicted the large market Staff of the Year award came down to The Plain Dealer and Columbus Dispatch with the Cleveland paper winning by just two points. The Cincinnati Enquirer placed third. The Springfield News-Sun won the small market award.
Judging the competition were: Matt McClain, Denver based freelance photographer and former Rocky Mountain News staff photographer, Andrew Craft, staff photographer at the Fayetteville (NC) Observer and Mark Mirko, photographer and photo editor at the Hartford Courant.
Winning images can be viewed by clicking on the category on the results page.
Steve Maguire is quarterly television Photographer of the Year
Steve Maguire from WNBS-TV in Columbus is the 2009 Television Quarterly Clip Contest Photographer of the Year.
Maguire, who was in second place all year, leap frogged his co-worker Jeff Ritter in the final quarter winning first place in both General News and Feature.
Winning 4th quarter video will be posted on the ONPA Website as soon as it becomes available.
Final Standings
1st - Steve Maguire, WBNS-TV - 75
2nd - Jeff Ritter, WBNS-TV - 63
3rd - Bill Reagan, WBNS-TV - 40
4th - Nate Van Sickle, WBNS-TV - 31
5th - Michael Gravely Jr., WBNS-TV - 21
Pay Your ONPA Dues Online
Paying your ONPA membership dues just got a whole lot easier as the transaction can now take place online on the ONPA Website. A new Renew link has been added to the header of the homepage which will enable you to complete the transaction using PayPal.
Hopefully we will be able to handle convention registration and contest fees in the future as well.
