Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Sunday at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL.
This year 3,700 journalists from 147 countries submitted 53,000 still images, video, and Web entries in the 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition.
Winners of each day’s categories will be announced daily on the NPPA Web site, and the BOP’s Photojournalists of the Year and the winner of Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” will be announced at the end of the week.
This year’s judges for the 2009 Best Of Photojournalism still photography categories are Dudley Brooks, the photography director for Ebony/Jet Publishing; 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winner Renée C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee; Amsterdam-based photojournalist Peter Dejong of the Associated Press; California-based freelance sports photojournalist Donald Miralle; and Tim Rasmussen, the assistant managing editor of photography for The Denver Post.