BOP on the Web

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Melissa Worden

Congrats to all the winners of the NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism 2007 Web division contest.

Top honors goes to The San Jose Mercury News, earning the title “Best Use of the Web.”

” ‘MercuryNewsPhoto.com is only a year old and already they’ve been able to truly push and help evolve the medium. Each of their entries demonstrated a mastery of telling a multimedia story over a variety of subjects,’ judge Andrew DeVigal said.”

>> Lucas Grindley points out that Roanoke.com cashed in this year, including Best News Audio Slideshow for photographer Josh Meltzer’s “Land of Opportunity, Dashed Dreams” narrated by reporter Beth Macy.

I got the opportunity to work with and learn from this creative and talented duo (with the project An Unlikely Refuge) when I was an online producer for roanoke.com in 2005.

Good stuff continuing to come out of beautiful Southwest Virigina, and a lot we all can learn from.

>> Richard Hernandez, judge and photographer for MercuryNews.com, has published a podcast of the judges’ impressions.

>> UPDATE: Lucas Grindley is wondering about the category definitions and suggests “there’s a bug in these contest results.” If this is true, I’m surprised the judges didn’t confirm entries were submitted correctly.