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National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) recognizes Post photo and video journalism in 2023 Best of Photojournalism Competition

WASHINGTON DC, MAY 24: The Washington Post Building at 1301 K St. NW in Washington DC, May 24, 2016. (John McDonnell / The Washington Post)

The Washington Post’s Photo and Video departments won several awards from The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in recognition of a range of work including coverage of the war in Ukraine, America’s homicide crisis and the January 6 insurrection.

Among several honors, Salwan Georges was named photojournalist of the year in the large markets category and Senior Video Journalist Whitney Shefte won first place for an individual online video portfolio. Other winners include Matt McClain, who gained first place in the feature story category for his work on Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as violence rises and Senior Photo Editor Natalia Jimenez, who earned first place for her work on America’s homicide crisis.

A full list of Post winners is below. For the complete list of winners, click here.

Still Photojournalism Division

Photojournalist of the Year, Large Market

First – Salwan Georges, The Washington Post

General News

First – Salwan Georges, The Washington Post – first image in this Stamp

Second – Salwan Georges, The Washington Post – lead image for Enduring Images (train)

General News Story

First – Salwan Georges, Cartel Rx: Fentanyl’s deadly surge

Feature Story

First – Matt McClain, The Washington Post, Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as violence rises

Second – Salwan Georges, The Washington Post – Ukraine war

Science

Second – Salwan Georges, The Washington Post, The perilous 1,000-mile journey to save Africa’s endangered black rhinos

Picture Editing Division

Magazine Cover

First – Dudley Brooks, The Washington Post, Mayfly

Second – Dudley Brooks, The Washington Post, War and Resilience

Third – Olivier Laurent, The Washington Post, After the Fall

Magazine General News Story

First – Chloe Coleman, The Washington Post, On the Front Lines – First Page, Spread 2, Spread 3, Spread 4, Spread 5, Spread 6, Last Page

Second – Chloe Coleman, The Washington Post, What Came Before – First page, Spread 2, Spread 3, Last Page

Magazine Picture Editing Team of The Year

First – The Washington Post

Magazine Picture Editor of The Year

Second – Dudley Brooks, The Washington Post

Newspaper General News Story

Third – Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post, Homicide

Honorable mention – Oliver Laurent, The Washington Post, The drug trade now flourishing in Afghanistan: Meth

Newspaper Feature Story

Second – Olivier Laurent, The Washington Post, A shrinking lifeline

Newspaper Picture Editing Team of the Year

First – The Washington Post

Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year

Honorable mention – Olivier Laurent, The Washington Post

Digital General News Story

First – Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post, America’s homicide crisis. Photography by Dustin Franz, Joe Martinez, Maddie McGarvey, Kathleen Flynn, Brandon Dill, Rob Culpepper, Rory Doyle and Andrew Mangum.

Second – Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post, Across southern Arizona, the full range of migrant border woes

Honorable mention – Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post, Photographers reflect on the enduring images from January 6. Photography by Matt McClain, Astrid Riecken, Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, Michael S. Williamson, Michael Robinson-Chavez, Bonnie Jo Mount, Bill O’Leary, Amanda Voisard, Ricky Carioti, Evelyn Hockstein, Jabin Botsford, Katherine Frey, Oliver Contreras and Melina Mara.

Digital Feature Story

Third – Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post, The vunerability of new motherhood, heightened by the pandemic. Photography by Tori Ferenc, Nadiya Nacorda, Michaela Vatcheva, Lianne Milton and Danielle Villasana.

Online Video, Presentation and Innovation

News and Issue – Online Video Team

First – The Washington Post How One Ukranian Teen Survived Russian Occupation, Video journalist and editor: Whitney Shefte; Producer: Sergii Mukaieliants; Translator: Lesia Prokopenko; Senior producer: Jessica Koscielniak

Third – The Washington Post, For one Ukrainian family, a harrowing escape from Mariupol and an uncertain future, Video journalist: Erin Patrick O’Connor; Editor: Whitney Shefte; Producer: Ihor Didukh

Portfolio – Online Video Individual

First – Whitney Shefte, The Washington Post

Portfolio – Online Visual Presentation

First – The Washington Post, Visual Editing by Reem Akkad, Karly Domb Sadof and Monica Ulmanu.

Culture, Sports, and Science – Online Visual Presentation

Third – The Washington Post, “How much gas money it takes to drive across America,” Editing by Karly Domb Sadof and Laura Stevens. Video production and editing by Joy Yi. Photo editing by Haley Hamblin. Design editing by Virginia Singarayar. Design and Development by Emily Wright

Innovation

Third – The Washington Post, Destroying Maya treasures to build a tourist train, Editing by Matthew Hay Brown, Joseph Moore and Reem Akkad. Filming by Whitney Leaming. Video editing by Alexa Juliana Ard. Design and development by Tucker Harris, Tara McCarty and Shikha Subramaniam. Graphics by Júlia Ledur. Graphics editing by Kate Rabinowitz. Reporting and writing by Kevin Sieff

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