January 2012 Clip Contest Results
Click here to see the winning images. Feature Weather shots, January in Wisconsin. I had to go put on a sweater just to judge this category. And kudos to everyone who got stuck with the weather assignment and came back with these images. (Weather ought to be a category by itself.) Feature 1st – Star Wars Invasion [...]
November 2011 Clip Contest Results
Click here to see the winning images. Feature 1st place – Choir Practice (Matthew Apgar/Herald Times Reporter) Feature 2nd Place – Light Work (John Hart, Wisconsin State Journ) Feature 3rd Place – Dan Powers/The Post-Crescent General News 1st Place – First Snow Fall (John Ehlke) General News 2nd Place – Soldiers Return Home (John Ehlke) [...]
January 2012 Clip Contest Submission Extended
I have received a few email on confusion about the changes in the web address for entering this year. The correct address to enter clips at is: https://airdropper.com/wnpaonline I’ll keep the clip contest open through 11:59:59 on February 8, 2012. Thank you for letting me know about the confusion. Remember to review the rules for [...]
December 2011 Clip Contest Results
Click here to see the winning images. Feature 1st Place – Matthew Apgar/HTR Feature 2nd Place – In-flight Meal (John Hart, Wisconsin State Journal) Feature 3rd Place – Holiday Halo (John Hart, Wisconsin State Journal) General News 1st Place – Recall Scott Walker (John Ehlke) General News 2nd Place – Finding a Fir (John Hart, [...]
January Clip Contest is now open
Please make sure to review the rules, there are some changes for 2012: You may now enter an image in a single image category and a multiple category. This does constitute two of your 9 entries. Make sure to enter the image twice, example: fe_jdsmith1.jpg and the second would go along with your multiple as [...]
2011 POY “Contest Central”
It’s that time of the year! Reach back into your archives and pull out your best images of 2011 for WNPA’s 2011 POY Contest. Contest deadline is: Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Below are links the PDF forms and rules/information packet. Read them carefully as this year there are new filenaming requirements and a new online [...]
WNPA Board plans 2012 activities
The WNPA Board, along with contest chairs, the membership chair and other volunteers, met Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Appleton to discuss the following items: Clip and POY contests Membership expansion, record-keeping, and our dues payment process Advocacy efforts WNPA’s involvement in the 2012 Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s Annual Convention WNPA’s own 2012 convention Doug Sundin [...]
November clip contest is open for submission
1) Prepare your files. Filenaming is very critical because if you upload two images with the same file name, one will be overwritten. To solve this, please follow the following naming convention to ensure everyone has unique file names: Start with the two letter category code followed by an underscore: Spot news = sn_ General [...]
Results of September Clip Contest
Click here to see the winning images. Judged by David Snodgress, photography manager, and Chris Howell, senior photojournalist. Bloomington, Ind. Herald-Times Feature: First Place – YMCA Pie to Face (John Ehlke) Second Place – Dog Show Kiss (Matthew Apgar/Herald Times Reporter) Third Place – (Dan Powers/The Post-Crescent) A solid, if small, collection of nice photographs. [...]
April 2011 Clip Contest Results
Click here to see the winning images. Feature 1st – Hats off to Spring (John Hart) Feature 2nd – Thumbs Up (Wm. Glasheen) Feature 3rd – Cold Game (Wm. Glasheen) General News 1st – Goodbye, Mayor Dave (Michael P. King, Wisconsin State Journal) General News 2nd – Election night wait drags on (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal [...]
September clip contest is open for submission
1) Prepare your files. Filenaming is very critical because if you upload two images with the same file name, one will be overwritten. To solve this, please follow the following naming convention to ensure everyone has unique file names: Start with the two letter category code followed by an underscore: Spot news = sn_ General [...]
August Clip Contest Results
Click here to see the winning images. FEATURE 1st Place – Mustard Day (John Hart, Wisconsin State Journal)…….Nice behind the scenes look and giving the readers something they normally wouldn’t see during the event! 2nd Place (Dan Powers)…….Again, nice little slice-of-life moment that gives us a pulled back look and feel for what is going [...]
May and July Clip Contest Results
May Click here to see the winning images. Feature 1st Place – Hippity hop girl (Sue Pischke/HTR) Feature 2nd Place – May Showers (Michael P. King, Wisconsin State Journal) Feature 3rd Place – Mirror Mirror (Sue Pischke/HTR) Feature Honorable Mention – Spring Study (John Hart, Wisconsin State Journ) General News 1st Place – Law Enforcement [...]
June clip contest results are in
Click here to see the winning images. Feature 1st Place – Summer (Wm. Glasheen) Feature 2nd Place – Cold Water (Wm. Glasheen) Feature 3rd Place – Devils Lake (John Hart, Wisconsin State Journal) General News 1st Place – Bringing Up the Rear (Michael P. King, Wisconsin State Journal) General News 2nd Place – Protester weeps [...]
June Clip contest open for submission and call for resubmission of April Clips.
My apologies for the recent delays in the clip contest. I switched jobs and was without internet for several weeks. Somewhere in that time the security of the April clip contest images was compromised resulting in all of April’s clips being deleted. Fortunately each month’s clips were quarantined from each other so only the April [...]
The results of the WNPA March Clip Contest are now available
Click here to view the winning photos. March 2011 Feature: First Place – (Wm. Glasheen) Second Place – March Mildness (John Hart – Wisconsin State Journal) Third Place – Look Ahead Lakers (Sue Pischke/HTR) Honorable Mention – Mars Cheese Castle (Katie N. Gardner) Honorable Mention – SpringSnow (Dan Powers) General News: First Place – Police [...]
The April WNPA Clip Contest is open for submissions
The April WNPA Clip Contest is now open for submissions. March results are coming soon.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Porter win Pulitzer
Gary Porter of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, along with Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood, have won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, it was announced today. The story, One In A Billion, chronicled the treatment of Nicholas Volker, “a little boy with a rare, devastating disease.” Porter’s photographs also won [...]
2010 WNPA POY and Multimedia Results
Gary Porter of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is the 2010 WNPA Photographer of the Year. Porter was also awarded Best of Show. Michael P. King of the Wisconsin State Journal (and previously of the Green Bay Press-Gazette) was awarded 1st Place Portfolio. Sharon Cekada of The Post-Crescent in Appleton won 1st Place Best Multimedia Story. [...]
WNPA Pro POY judging in progress
Beginning at 9 a.m., we are LIVE from the Center for Photography at Madison with the Wisconsin News Photographers Association’s 2010 Pictures of the Year judging. Results will be posted immediately following the conclusion of the contest.
Pro POY judging to be held Sat., April 9
The Pro POY contest judging will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011 at the Center for Photography at Madison, 303 S. Paterson St. (Door 2), Madison, WI, beginning at 9 a.m. until finish (likely 5:30 p.m.). The judging is open to WNPA members, CPM members, and students. We are very grateful that CPM is hosting [...]
2010 WNPA Student POY Results
Lukas Keapproth of the Badger Herald is the 2010 WNPA Student Photographer of the Year. Matt Dixon of Marquette University was awarded 1st Place Portfolio. The 2010 Student Pictures of the Year contest was judged Saturday, April 2, 2011 at the Wisconsin State Journal by John Hart, Hank Koshollek, and Ting-Li Wang. View the winning [...]
WNPA Student POY judging in progress
Beginning at 9 a.m., we are LIVE from the Wisconsin State Journal with the 2010 WNPA Student POY judging.
March WNPA Clip Contest is now open for submissions
The March WNPA Clip Contest is now open for submissions at wnpaclipcontest.com. We had a great turnout last month, spread the word so we can get even more WNPA members submitting.