Once again, WashingtonPost.com has cleaned up at the annual awards of
the White House News Photographers Association, winning 31 of 90 awards
in the “Eyes of History 2006” competition for television journalism.
Yes, you read that right; the contest is primarily for TV journalism,
and WashingtonPost.com was the only website represented among the
winners.
Editor of the Year again went to the website’s video journalist, Travis Fox,
who also won first place in five other categories (and got a bunch of
second- and third-place awards). WashingtonPost.com video journalists Pierre Kattar, Ben de la Cruz, Christina Pino-Marina, J.C. Crandall, and John Poole also won awards.
Here’s the full list of winners, announced this week.
I say this every year when WashingtonPost.com does well in this
competition, but it again demonstrates how newspaper companies can,
when they set their minds to it and hire the right staff, do video
journalism at a world-class level. Congratulations to them.
