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Appendix A: Journalism Awards and Prizes - Photography and Editorial Cartooning Awards

These awards tend to be less known to the general public, but are widely recognized within their specialized fields.

Best of Photojournalism

Awards are given by the National Press Photographers Association and fall into five broad categories (and a host of specific ones):

Still photography

Photo editing

Websites

News video photography

Video editing

Past winners: http://bop.nppa.org/archive.html

Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons

Florence Berryman, former art critic of the now defunct Washington Star, endowed an annual award in memory of her father and brother, both of whom were Pulitzer Prize—winning political cartoonists. The Berryman Award, administered since 1989 by the National Press Foundation, is open to editorial cartoonists of newspapers and magazines for work that exhibits “power to influence public opinion,” plus good drawing and striking effect.

Past winners: http://www.nationalpress.org/info-url3520/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=118567

Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award

The United Nations Correspondents Association and the United Nations Society of Writers & Artists established this annual political cartoon award given in the international field, and named after political cartoonist Ranan Lurie (1932—) who edited Cartoon News.

Past winners: http://www.lurieunaward.com

The Robert Capa Gold Medal

This award for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise” is given annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). Created in honor of the wartime photojournalist Robert Capa (1913–54), the first medal was awarded in 1955.

Past winners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa_Gold_Medal

Further Readings

See Appendix C, Section 1-F, for books about the Pulitzer and other journalism prizes.

Cub Reporters Journalism Prizes, http://cubreporters.org/journalism_prizes.html

Fame and Fortune, A—Z listing of journalism awards website: http://www.sources.com/FandF/Index.htm

Journalism Awards, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Journalism_awards

Journalism Awards and Contests, http://www.journalismjobs.com/awards.cfm

Pulitzer Prize website, http://www.pulitzer.org

—Christopher H. Sterling

  • photography
  • journalism
  • awards and prizes
  • cartooning
  • cartoons
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