Monday, March 29, 2010

NPPA Awards for Best Video & Multimedia

Congrats to all winners of the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism awards in the Web categories. Many of these also won top awards in the recent Pictures of the Year International competition.

It should come as no surprise that nearly all of these prestigious award-winners were previously showcased on KobreGuide to the Web's Best Videojournalism.

Lesson: if you want to see next year's award winners, no need to wait. Just follow KobreGuide.com, where you'll find the best videojournalism every day.

(SPECIAL NOTE: This week on KobreGuide, we'll be showcasing the winners of NPPA's TV News video categories, in case you missed them.)

Special congratulations go out to the grand prizewinners, representing the tops in their respective categories:

* 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

* Washington Post, producers of the Best Video: Mexico At War

* LA Times, producers of the Best Audio Slideshow: Waiting to Die
(NOTE: Also see KobreGuide's exclusive Q&A with its creator, Liz O. Baylen.)

And here are the rest of the best of the Website winners:
AWARDS KEY:

INDE winners are for Web sites not affiliated with, or supported by, a news organization;

UNDER winners are for Web sites that are affiliated with a major media organization and whose site has fewer than 2.5 million unique page view per month;

OVER winners are for Web sites that are affiliated with a major media organization and whose site has more than 2.5 million unique page view per month.

HM = Honorable Mention
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VIDEO:

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

DOCUMENTARY VIDEO WINNERS:

INDE

1st Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal
Yale e360/milesfrommaybe productions/MediaStorm

2nd Battle for the Mountains
UNC Chapel Hill

3rd Driftless: Stories from Iowa
MediaStorm

HM Wasteland
http://www.bombayfc.com

HM Facing Deportation
http://eileenmignoni.com/

UNDER

1st What Will Happen to Andy?
AARP Bulletin Today

2nd Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire
Associated Press

3rd From Baghdad to San Jose
San Jose Mercury News

OVER

1st Mexico at War
The Washington Post

2nd $5 Cover Amplified: Ben Nichols: Hold Fast
http://5dollarcoveramplified.com/

3rd Determined Divas
DemocratandChronicle.com

HM Motown at 50
Detroit Free Press

HM Final Edition
Rocky Mountain News

HM Trapped under the sea
The Boston Globe

HM Ted Kennedy: A life in politics
The Boston Globe

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FEATURE VIDEO:

INDE

1st Family Kocktail
MediaStorm

2nd Roping the Wind in Texas
UNC Chapel Hill

3rd A Life Alone
www.maisiecrow.com

HM Hold Out
Mediastorm Workshops

UNDER

1st Uninsured in the Mississippi Delta
The Washington Times

2nd Silverton Saves Its Paper
AARP Bulletin Today

3rd Disabled in Vietnam
The San Jose Mercury News

OVER

1st Scene In
The Washington Post

2nd Real Florida Stories
St. Petersburg Times / tampabay.com

3rd My Kidney, His Life
The Washington Post

HM The Scar
www.sun-sentinel.com

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NEWS VIDEO:

INDE:

No Winners

UNDER

HM Vigil for teen crash victim
The Spokesman-Review

OVER

1st 1 corner, 3 places to buy Starbucks
Houston Chronicle

2nd Carrier of the Economy
Detroit Free Press

3rd Mexico at War: Addicts Latest Victims of Drug War
The Washington Post

HM In the Moment: Witnessing Barack Obama's Historic Inauguration
The Washington Post

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SPORTS VIDEO:

INDE:

No Winners

UNDER

1st A Boxing Revival at Coast Guard
The Day

2nd Coaching With Cancer
Las Vegas Sun

HM A Passion For Gymnastics
Las Vegas Sun

HM Ready To Rumble
TimesDaily

OVER

1st Seattle Semi Pro
The Seattle Times

2nd Demolition Derby: Crash for Clunkers
TIME.com

3rd Art of the Autograph
Detroit Free Press

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SLIDESHOW:

"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."

FEATURE AUDIO SLIDESHOW:

INDE

1st 'A Life Pretty Full of Love' Act 1
www.kevinwellenius.com

2nd Stepping Up
LucidPix

3rd Mishoka's Story
duckrabbit

HM My name is Dechen
www.dhirajsingh.com

HM Inside New York Fashion Week
Pontus Hook Photography

UNDER

1st Living Off the Land
The News & Advance

2nd One Thing at a Time
Fairfax County Times

3rd Metamorphosis
The Salt Lake Tribune

HM From Chicks to Table
The News & Advance

OVER

1st Waiting to Die
Los Angeles Times

2nd A Boy's Struggles
Los Angeles Times

3rd Motel Manor: Suburban homelessness in St. Charles County
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HM Gimme Shelter
Los Angeles Times

HM St. Louis WWII veterans remembered 60 years later with Honor Flight
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HM Comforting a Death in Prison
The New York Times

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NEWS AUDIO SLIDESHOW:

INDE

2nd Beyond Bangladesh
duckrabbit

3rd Fighting a War of IED's in Afghanistan's Deadly Tangi Valley
David Goldman, freelance for the Associated Press

HM Mexico Swine Flu: The Christ of Health
www.chicosanchez.com

UNDER

2nd A Dream Realized
AARP

3rd Fleeing Somalia
GlobalPost

HM Afghanistan's Fog of War
GlobalPost.com

OVER

1st Frozen Land, Forgotten People
Los Angeles Times

2nd Tracking Smugglers
Los Angeles Times

3rd "America's Battalion in Afghanistan"
NPR

HM Sen. Kennedy's Life and Career, 1932 - 2009
The Washington Post

HM An Ambush and a Comrade Lost
The New York Times

HM Afghanistan's "Lucky Dustoff" Medevac
NPR

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SPORTS AUDIO SLIDESHOW :

INDE

2nd Oh Chute!
www.jasonmckibben.com

3rd One way out. Boxing in Mexico.
http://www.chicosanchez.com

HM Paintball Pursuit
Ohio University School of Visual Communication

UNDER

1st 2009 Yukon Quest
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

2nd The schools are tiny. The game is huge.
Austin American-Statesman

3rd Give Blood, Play Rugby.
The News & Advance

HM The Infamous 17th
Midland Daily News

OVER

1st Greyhound Park Closing
azcentral.com/The Arizona Republic

2nd The Pit
Los Angeles Times

HM The Ultimate Race
azcentral.com/The Arizona Republic

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NEWS OR FEATURE MULTIMEDIA

INDE

1st Powering a Nation
UNC Chapel Hill

2nd Soul of Athens
Ohio University School of Visual Communication

3rd Murray, Kentucky
Mountain Workshops

HM Facing Deportation
http://eileenmignoni.com/

HM Living Galapagos: Battle for Balance Between Man and Nature
University of North Carolina

UNDER

1st Times of Crisis
reuters.com/timesofcrisis

2nd Surviving the Tsunami
Thomson Reuters and the IFRC in partnership with MediaStorm

3rd Life, Death and the Taliban
Globalpost.com

HM 2009 Iditarod
Anchorage Daily News

HM Bottoming Out
The Las Vegas Sun

OVER

1st Ted Kennedy. (A seven-part multimedia series and book by the Boston Globe, published in February 2009, six months before the Senator's death.)
The Boston Globe

2nd One in 8 Million
The New York Times

3rd LA CIUDAD QUE NO DUERME
www.elpais.com.co

HM Motown at 50
Detroit Free Press

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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.
Tomorrow on KobreChannel: The judges explain their choices, and reveal what qualities they look for.

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