2019 Winner’s List

NEWS

DAILY LIFE

First Place: Demetrius Freeman, Freelance, “Little Sun Girls”

Second Place: Qiang Li, Freelance, “Orphan Monks in Myanmar”

Third Place: Søren Bidstrup, Berlingske, “USA 6”

Award of Excellence: Stephanie Keith, Reuters, “Sacred Lakota Run”

Award of Excellence: Maya Alleruzzo, Associated Press, “Message from Dad”

Award of Excellence: Amnon Gutman, Freelance, “To Be at Peace”

MIDTERM ELECTIONS

First Place: Eric Miller, Reuters, "Ilhan Omar-U.S. Congresswoman-elect"

Second Place: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images, "Beto"

Third Place: Melina Mara, The Washington Post, "Stacey Abrams for Georgia Governor - Stolen Election"

Award of Excellence: Jessie Wardarski, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Untitled"

Award of Excellence: Chris Bergin, Reuters, "USA-TRUMP"

SPOT NEWS

First: Stuart Palley, for the Los Angeles Times, "Woolsey Firestorm"

Second: Cory Morse, MLive and Grand Rapids Press, "Victims' Father Lunges at Nassar"

Third: Abdulmonam Eassa, Agence France-Presse, "Syria-Conflict"

Award of Excellence: Alisha Jucevic, The Columbian, "Untitled"

Award of Excellence: Katie Rausch, The Blade, "Battling the Blaze"

GENERAL NEWS

First: April Saul, Freelance, “Mourning Macho”

Second: Tyler Hicks, The New York Times, “Amal Hussain”

Third: Dar Yasin, Associated Press, “Wailing Relatives”

Award of Excellence: Mohammed Asad, Freelance, “The Martyr Child”

Award of Excellence: Mohammed Salem, Reuters, “Gaza Protests”

IMPACT 2018 — IMMIGRATION STATUS

First: Alessio Paduano, Freelance, “Abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea”

Second: Daniel Ochoa de Olza, Associated Press, “Family Jump”

Third: Adriana Zehbrauskas, The New Yorker, “Migrant Caravan”

Award of Excellence: Juan Medina, Reuters, “Life and Death in the Mediterranean Sea”

Award of Excellence: Barbara Davidson, Freelance, “Desperate to Cross the Border into USA”

Award of Excellence: Brett Gundlock, Freelance, “Sisters”

DAILY LIFE — PICTURE STORY

First: Jessica Phelps, The Newark Advocate, "First Generation"

Second: Rodrigo Abd, Associated Press, "Dangerous Dives"

Third: Luis Tato, Freelance, "Beauty Beyond the Skin"

Award of Excellence: Salwan Georges, The Washington Post, "The Iraqi Dream in America"

PORTRAIT

First: Josh Estey, Freelance, "Scarification"

Second: Fulvio Bugani, Freelance, "Thiago"

Third: Maddie McGarvey, Freelance, "Girl Power"

Award of Excellence: Paula Bronstein, Freelance, "Ukraine's War: Lives Frozen by Conflict: The Elderly"

Award of Excellence: Dougal Brownlie, Colorado Springs Gazette, "Untitled"

PORTRAIT SERIES

First: Robin Hammond, Freelance, "Where Love is Illegal"

Second: Josh Estey, Freelance, "Faces of Resilience"

Third: Javier Arcenillas, Freelance, "Assassins of the Maras 18 and Salvatrucha"

Award of Excellence: Shiva Khademi, Freelance, "Gemini"

Award of Excellence: Turjoy Chowdhury, Freelance, "Rohingya Mothers & Newborns"

NEWSPAPER LOCAL PICTURE STORY

First: Sarah Ann Jump, The Herald (Jasper, IN), "Love is Not a Memory"

Second: Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, "Reunited On Borrowed Land"

Third: Dougal Brownlie, Colorado Springs Gazette, "Joshua's Journey"

Award of Excellence: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News, "Evil Did Not Win"

NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

First: Jessica Phelps, Newark Advocate (Newark, Ohio)

Second: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Third: Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

SPORTS ACTION

First: Bernat Armangue, Associated Press, "Springboard Eye"

Second: Winslow Townson, Freelance, "Benny Ballet"

Third: Michael Steele, Getty Images, "Try Time"

Award of Excellence: Rob Tringali, Freelance, "Long Gone"

Award of Excellence: Ric Tapia, Freelance, "Into the Water"

Award of Excellence: Quinn Rooney, Getty Images, "Breaststroke"

SPORTS LIFE

First: Matthew Thomas, Freelance, "Champagne Bath"

Second: Maddie Meyer, Getty Images, "Slalom Gold"

Third: Julian Finney, Getty Images, "Serena Controversy"

Award of Excellence: Nic Bothma, European Pressphoto Agency, "Naked Support"

OLYMPIC ACTION

First: Kevin Dietsch, United Press International, "Slalom Light"

Second: Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean, "Goal"

Third: Lucy Nicholson, Reuters, "Olympics 2018 Figs Team"

Award of Excellence: Phil Noble, Reuters, "Snow Trails"

Award of Excellence: Carl Sandin, Bildbyrån, "Stephan Leyhe"

OLYMPIC LIFE

First: Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean, "Silver"

Second: Fei Maohua, Xinhua News Agency, "Veteran"

Third: Quinn Rooney, Getty Images, "Agony and Ecstasy"

Award of Excellence: Paul Kitagaki Jr., Zuma Press, "USA Wins Gold in Women's Hockey"

SPORTS PICTURE STORY

First: Michael Robinson Chavez, The Washington Post, "Cairo's Last Breath"

Second: Chris Donovan, Freelance, "This is Flint"

Third: Matt Gade, The Daily Republic (Mitchell, SD), "Thing Called Rodeo"

Award of Excellence: Sascha Fromm, Thueringer Allgemeine, "Underwater Rugby"

RECREATIONAL SPORTS

First: Luis Tato, Freelance, “Untitled”

Second: Stephanie Chambers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Game Face”

Third: Aaron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post, “The Rider”

Award of Excellence: Moe Zoyari, Freelance, “Daily Life of Cuban Dancers”

Award of Excellence: Matt Gade, The Daily Republic (Mitchell, SD), “Mutton Bustin’”

SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

First: Matt Gade, The Daily Republic

Second: Isaac Hale, Daily Herald

Third: Maddie Meyer, Getty Images

REPORTAGE

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY - SINGLES

First: Nanna Kreutzmann, Freelance, “Untouched: School of Jack Fish”

Second: Martin Edström, Freelance, “Everest Trash”

Third: Josh Haner, The New York Times, “Swimming Iguana”

Award of Excellence: Roie Galitz, Freelance, “Spirit of the Forest”

Award of Excellence: Roie Galitz, Freelance, “Polar Bear Family in a Melting World”

Award of Excellence: Neil D’Cruze, Freelance, “The Last Dance”

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY - PICTURE STORY

First: Lynn Johnson, for National Geographic Magazine, "The Immortal Corpse"

Second: Brent Stirton, Getty Images Reportage, "Akashinga - The Brave Ones"

Third: Aitor Garmendia, Freelance, "The Undercover Work of Animal Cruelty Investigators"

Award of Excellence: Oded Balilty, Associated Press, "The Museum"

Award of Excellence: Milan Radisics, Freelance, "How Water Shapes Earth"

Award of Excellence: Kacper Kowalski, Panos Pictures, "Environmental policy"

ENVIRONMENTAL VISION AWARD

Winner: Jalal Shasazaran, New Vision Productions Inc., "The Wind Will Take Us Away"

Finalist: Gabriele Cecconi, Freelance, "The Wretched and the Earth"

Finalist: David Chancellor, Freelance, "'A Gamekeepers Life' - Custodians of the Highlands"

Finalist: Matjaž Krivic, Freelance, "Lithium: the Driving Force of the 21st Century"

NEWS PICTURE STORY

First Place: Fabio Bucciarelli, for Yahoo News, "The Border Wall"

Second Place (tie): Nicole Tung, Freelance, "Raqqa: The Aftermath"

Second Place (tie): Fabio Bucciarelli, for Yahoo News, "The Great March of Return"

Third Place: John Wessels, Freelance, "Beni, DRC - Between Conflict and Ebola"

COMMUNITY AWARENESS AWARD

Winner: Adrees Latif, Reuters, "Central American Migrants"

Finalist: Alexey Yurenev, for The New York Times, "Silka"

Finalist: Hossein Fatemi, Panos Pictures, "The Legacy of Empire"

Finalist: Jeffrey McWhorter, Freelance, "The Time We Have Here"

Finalist: Alexey Vasilyev, Freelance, "My Dear Yakutia"

ISSUE REPORTING PICTURE STORY

First: Alessandro Cinque, Freelance, “Espinar, Broken Land”

Second: Mohammad Baghal Asghari Baghmisheh, Freelance, “Victims of Family Marriage”

Third: Ignacio Marin, Freelance, “Hunger Crimes”

Award of Excellence: Daniel Ochoa de Olza, Associated Press, “Jumping the Border”

Award of Excellence: Moises Saman, Freelance, “Shallow Graves”

Award of Excellence: Louie Palu, for National Geographic Magazine, “New Cold War”

WORLD UNDERSTANDING AWARD

Winner: Antonio Faccilongo, Getty Images Reportage, “Habibi”

Finalist: Daniele Volpe, Freelance, “Ixil Genocide”

Finalist: Anastasia Rudenko, Freelance, “Internat”

Finalist: Salvatore Esposito, Contrasto, “La Forza del Silenzio”

PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR

Winner: Maksymilian Rigamonti, Press Club Polska, The Echo

Finalist: Åke Ericson, Gost Books, Non Grata

Finalist: Kacper Kowalski, Gdynia, Over

Finalist: Mads Nissen, Gost Books, We are Indestructible

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

First: Fabio Bucciarelli, for Yahoo News

Second: John Wessels, Freelance

Third: Adrees Latif, Reuters

Award of Excellence: Andrew Quilty, Freelance

Award of Excellence: Mohammed Salem, Reuters

MULTIMEDIA

MULTIMEDIA DAILY LIFE

First: Forough Alaei, Freelance, “Let Me In”

Second: Katie Klann, Colorado Springs Gazette, “Learning from the Land: Women in Ranching”

Third: Ora Dekornfeld, Taige Jensen and Cora Engelbrecht, The New York Times, “What A Soldier Killed In Niger Left Behind”

Award of Excellence: Kristen Zeis, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, “No Turning Back: A Transgender Sailor’s Journey”

Award of Excellence: Guy Wathen, San Francisco Chronicle, “The Regulars: The Dancer”

Award of Excellence: Jennifer Gonzalez, NBC Bay Area - KNTV, “Beyond the Fields: Farm Workers Excel Academically through Cesar Chavez Program”

ONLINE DAILY LIFE, VISUAL EDITING

First: Topic, “Becoming Private Nelson,” photo editing by Caroline Smith, photos by Sarah Blesener

Second: The New York Times, “Experience-Based Care For Dementia”

Third: Topic, “Ball Breakers,” photo editing by Caroline Smith photography and video by Tim Hussin and Erin Brethauer

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, “Being Women: Poetry and Imagery” Morrigan McCarthy and Kerri MacDonald

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, “Welcome to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn,” Jeffrey Furticella

Award of Excellence: The Washington Post, “The Un-celebrity President,” photos by Matt McClain, photo editing by MaryAnne Golon and Thomas Simonetti, design by Katherine Lee, words by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan

Award of Excellence: Anchorage Daily News, “Kikkan Randall’s Cancer Year” Anne Raup, Steve Kruschwitz, Vicky Ho, David Hulen, Marc Lester

MULTIMEDIA NEWS & ISSUE REPORTING

First: Katie Falkenberg, Los Angeles Times, “The Search”

Second: Almudena Toral, Univision Noticias Digital, “The Legacy of the ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy: Traumatized Children with No Access to Treatment”

Third: Christoph Koetti and Ben Laffin, The New York Times, “23 Seconds, 5 Critical Moments: How Stephon Clark was Killed by the Police”

Award of Excellence: Lauren Frohne, The Seattle Times, “We Want Answers, We Want Justice”

ONLINE NEWS & ISSUE REPORTING, VISUAL EDITING

First: San Francisco Chronicle, “150 Minutes of Hell”

Second: Reuters, “Project Greenland”

Third: National Geographic Magazine, Kurt Mutchler, “Katie’s New Face”

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, Morrigan McCarthy, “Despair, Love and Loss: A Journey inside West Virginia’s Opioid Crisis”

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, Jeffrey Furticella, “Baby Antonio: 5 Pounds, 12 Ounces, and Homeless From Birth”

Award of Excellence: The Star Tribune,“When rape is reported and nothing happens” Deb Pastner, Renee Jones Schneider, Jenni Pinkley and Anna Boone

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, David Furst, Craig Allen and Meghan Peterson “Kidnapped as Schoolgirls by Boko Haram: Here They Are Now”

Award of Excellence: Vox, Kainaz Amaria and Alexia Underwood, “Photos: US Jerusalem Embassy Opening and Gaza Border Protests”

PRINT NEWSPAPER VISUAL EDITING

First: The New York Times, Jeffrey Furticella, “Baby Antonio: 5 Pounds, 12 Ounces, and Homeless From Birth”

Second: The Washington Post, “The new Arctic Frontier,” photo editing by Nick Kirkpatrick, Chloe Coleman, MaryAnne Golon; photos and videos by Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir Van Lohuizen/NOOR for Fondation Carmignac; video editing by Sarah Parnass; words by Dan Lamothe; text editing by Tiffany Harness, Adam Mowder, and Tiffany Harness; map by Laris Karklis; design and development by Jason Bernert, Brian Gross; project management by Nick Kirkpatrick, Julie Vitkovskaya

Third: The New York Times, Morrigan McCarthy, “Despair, Love and Loss: A Journey Inside West Virginia’s Opioid Crisis”

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, Jeffrey Furticella, “Welcome to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn”

Award of Excellence: The Star-Tribune, “Denied Justice,” photo editing by Deb Pastner, photography by Renee Jones Schneider, design by Greg Mees

Award of Excellence: The Boston Globe, “Raising Connor,” photo editing by Bill Greene, photography by Craig F. Walker, design by Omar Vega

Award of Excellence: Newsday, John Keating and Thomas A. Ferrara, “A Real Splash — A Glimpse into the World of Long Island’s Mermaid Culture”

NEWSPAPER VISUAL EDITOR OF THE YEAR

First Place: Jeffrey Furticella, The New York Times

Second Place: Nick Kirkpatrick, The Washington Post

Third Place: Karly Domb Sadof, The Washington Post

Award of Excellence: Morrigan McCarthy, The New York Times

PRINT MAGAZINE/MEDIA VISUAL EDITING

First: Kurt Mutchler, National Geographic Magazine, “Katie’s New Face”

Second: Vaughn Wallace, National Geographic Magazine, “Plastic”

Third: Kathy Moran, National Geographic Magazine, “Feeding China”

Award of Excellence: Sadie Quarrier, National Geographic Magazine, “Palm Oil”

Award of Excellence: Sadie Quarrier, National Geographic Magazine, “Antarctica”

Award of Excellence: Jennifer Samuel, National Geographic Magazine, “Japanese Internment”

MAGAZINE/MEDIA, VISUAL EDITOR OF THE YEAR

First Place: Kurt Mutchler, National Geographic Magazine

Second Place: Jennifer Samuel, National Geographic Magazine

Third Place: James Wellford, National Geographic Magazine

Award of Excellence: Brett Roegiers, CNN

Award of Excellence: Celina Fang, The Marshall Project

DOCUMENTARY PROJECT OF THE YEAR

First Place: The New York Times, “Visual Investigations”
Executive Producer: Mark Scheffler, Senior Producer: Malachy Browne; Producers: Malachy Browne, Christoph Koettl, Barbara Marcolini, Yousur Al-Hlou, Graphics Editor: Drew Jordan, Anjali Singhvi, David Botti; Editor: Ainara Tiefenthaler, David Botti, John Woo, Natalie Reneau

Second Place: CNN, “Destroyed”
Photographer: Melissa Golden; Photo editors: Brett Roegiers, Bernadette Tuazon; Video producers: Matthew Gannon, Nick Scott, Jacque Smith; Reporters: Ashley Fantz, Sergio Hernandez, Sonam Vashi; Designers and developers: Jan Diehm, Sergio Hernandez, Kenneth Fowler, Sean O'Key; Motion graphics producers: Melody Shih, Justin Weiss, Sandy L.C. Pan, Shane Csontos-Popko, Olga Pavlova, Xiaoyue Sherry Liu, Padraic Driscoll, Curtis Brown, Michael Pisano

Third Place: Folha De S. Paulo, “Climate Crisis: On the Trail of Global Warming”
Lalo de Almeida, Avener Prado, Victor Parolin, Daigo Oliva, Marcelo Leite, Fabiano Maisonnave, Giuliana Miranda, Mariana Versolato, Simon Ducroquet, Edson Salles, Thea Severino, Rogério Pilker, Angelo Dias, Thiago Almeida, Rubens Alencar, Renan Marra, José Henrique Mariante, Roberto Dias, Patricia Campos Mello

Award of Excellence: The Washington Post, “We’re Kids, but We’re also Journalists”
Whitney Shefte: Producer, Video Journalist, Reporter and Editor; Alice Li: Producer, Video Journalist and Reporter; Reem Akkad: Senior Producer

Award of Excellence: Talking Eyes Media, “Newest Americans”
Julie Winokur, Media Director; Ed Kashi, Director of Visuals; Tim Raphael, Director

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, “Operation Infektion” Adam B. Ellick, Adam Westbrook, Andrew Blackwell, Jonah Kessel, Leah Varjacques

ANGUS MCDOUGALL OVERALL EXCELLENCE IN EDITING AWARD

First Place: Meaghan Looram, Director of Photography, and the photo editing staff, The New York Times

Finalist: MaryAnne Golon, Director of Photography, and the photo editing staff, The Washington Post

Finalist: Sarah Leen, Director of Photography, and the photo editing staff, National Geographic Magazine

Finalist: Bernadette Tuazon, Director of Photography, and the photo editing staff, CNN

MULTIMEDIA PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Winner: Emily Kassie, The Marshall Project

Finalist: Jonah Kessel, The New York Times

Finalist: Whitney Shefte, The Washington Post

DOCUMENTARY JOURNALISM

First: ProPublica, "Unprotected," produced and directed by Nadia Sussman and Kathleen Flynn, reporter Finlay Young, executive director Claudia Milne, editor Joe Singer, print editor Alexandra Zayas

Second: The New York Times “'It's an Act of Murder': How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown" Taylor Adams, Adam B. Ellick, Kristin Bye, Leah Varjacques

Third: Marta Iwanek, "Vika," Marta Iwanek & Christian Borys/ CBC Short Docs

Award of Excellence: Univision, "America First: the Legacy of a Raid,” Almudena Toral, Andrea Patiño Contreras, Mauricio Rodríguez, Gerardo del Valle, Anna Spelman, Nacho Corbella

Award of Excellence: The Washington Post, "'We're Kids, but We're also Journalists'" Whitney Shefte: Producer, Video Journalist, Reporter and Editor; Alice Li: Producer, Video Journalist and Reporter; Reem Akkad: Senior Producer

Award of Excellence: The New York Times, “A Day and a Life: How Israeli Soldiers Killed a Volunteer Medic” Producers: Malachy Browne, David Halbfinger, John Woo, Yousur Al Hlou Associate Producer: Neil Collier Cinematography: Yousur Al Hlou Animation: Tim Chaffee, Nicholas Masterton (Forensic Architecture) Senior Producers: Mona El-Naggar, Malachy Browne Executive Producers: Marcelle Hopkins, Mark Scheffler