2022 Eyes of History: Broadcast Video Contest Results

Photography Categories


Top Honors
Video Photographer of the Year - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News

General News
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First Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Second Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News

Day Feature
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Murray Pinczuk, Independent
Third Place - Michael Herd, Sky News

News Feature
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Third Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Award of Excellence - Colm O'Molloy, BBC News

Feature
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First Place - Jeremy Moorhead, CNN
Second Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Third Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Award of Excellence - Maxine Collins, BBC News

News Special Reports/Series
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First Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Second Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Third Place - Eric Courtney, CGTN America
Award of Excellence - Jeremy Moorhead, CNN

Magazine Feature
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First Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News

Sports
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First Place - Peter Stolz, CGTN America

Political/Campaign
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First Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Second Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Third Place - Jeremy Moorhead, CNN

Lighting
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First Place - Christopher Albert, Independent
Second Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Third Place - Andrew Smith, CNN

Network
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Third Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Award of Excellence - Colm O'Molloy, BBC News

Audio
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First Place - Lance Ing, NBC4 WRC-TV
Second Place - David Carter, NBC4 WRC-TV
Third Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News

Raw Footage
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First Place - Christopher Albert, Independent

Editing Categories


Top Honors
Video Editor of the Year - McKenna Ewen, CNN

Spot News
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First Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Second Place - Michael Judge, NBC News

General News
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First Place - Andrew Smith, CNN
Second Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Third Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Award of Excellence - BJ Forte, NBC4 WRC-TV
Award of Excellence - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour

Day Feature
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First Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Second Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Third Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN

News Feature
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First Place - Colm O'Molloy, BBC News
Second Place - Ambrose Vurnis, NBC4 WRC-TV
Third Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Lance Ing, NBC4 WRC-TV
Award of Excellence - McKenna Ewen, CNN

Editing Short Form
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First Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Second Place - Christopher Smyth, Hearst Television
Third Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Award of Excellence - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Award of Excellence - Joann Sierra, ABC News

Editing Long Form
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First Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Second Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Third Place - Marc Allard, Independent
Award of Excellence - Joann Sierra, ABC News
Award of Excellence - Kamran Taherimoghaddam, CGTN America

Magazine Feature
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First Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Second Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Third Place - Kamran Taherimoghaddam, CGTN America
Award of Excellence - Victoria Fleischer, CNN
Award of Excellence - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News

Documentary
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First Place - Kamran Taherimoghaddam, CGTN America

Sports
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First Place - Victoria Fleischer, CNN
Second Place - Marc Allard, Independent
Third Place - Michael Judge, NBC News

Political/Campaign
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First Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Second Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Third Place - Michael Judge, NBC News

White House/Presidential
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First Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Second Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Third Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour

Audio
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First Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Third Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour

Promotional
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First Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour

2022 Broadcast Video Photography Judges

Brett Akagi has over 30 years in the business as a visual journalist, mentor and leader, with deep roots in the NPPA. At KARE-TV as the director of photography, he led his team to four NPPA Station of the Year awards and was also named the NPPA runner-up photographer of the year. Akagi also helped the Star Tribune in Minneapolis earn regional and national Murrow awards as a senior video producer. He earned regional Emmys across three decades in four newsrooms. Recently, he was the NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest chair for Video Photojournalism.

Akagi serves as an adviser of curriculum at the largest school district in Kansas and Northwest Missouri State University, is an instructor at the NPPA News Video Workshop, provides critiques and advice for the NABJ Visual Task Force participants, judges regional Emmy contests, regional Murrows and the NATAS Student Production Awards.

Akagi mentors professional and student journalists is a guest instructor for multiple universities and currently works as a multimedia content producer for Blue KC in Kansas City, Missouri. He can also roll his own sushi.



Katie Campbell is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning filmmaker and journalist at ProPublica. Prior to joining ProPublica, she oversaw video for EarthFix, a public-media science and environmental reporting partnership in the Pacific Northwest and served as a special correspondent for the national PBS NewsHour. Campbell began her career as a reporter at daily newspapers in Minnesota and Florida. She holds a master’s degree in narrative journalism from the University of Oregon and went on to teach multimedia journalism at the UO School of Journalism and Communication.

Doug Legore is a nationally recognized, visual storyteller who has told stories from around the world and from around the corner. He believes the size of the stage doesn’t mean the approach to memorable storytelling is any different. He has won the NPPA’s National Photographer of the Year award, thirty regional Emmy Awards, and two Edward R. Murrow awards. Doug also contributed to KUSA-TV in Denver winning back-to-back NPPA Station of the Year honors. As a consultant, Doug has led storytelling workshops with the American Forces Network in Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea. He’s also shared his knowledge of photojournalism with aspiring journalists at Syracuse, Northwestern, Arizona State and Penn State University.

Legore has been a photojournalist, executive producer, and director of photography with stations in Harrisburg, PA and Denver, CO where he employed the “Ted Lasso” leadership style. He now runs Doug Legore Media from Carlisle, PA where he continues to tell stories that matter. Doug is an active member of his community, serving as an adjunct professor at Messiah University and as a member of the Penn State Health Dermatology Board. Additionally, he has coached winning baseball at all levels from Little League to American Legion.

He’s not afraid to tell his pitchers to throw a change up on a 3-0 count.


2022 Broadcast Video Editing Judges


David Herr is a two-time Emmy award-winning NYC based editor who has over 15 year’s experience working in television and film. He has edited content for a wide array of networks, including Netflix, Hulu, CNN, FX, HBO, Viceland, ESPN, and many more. He has also worked on a variety of independent film and video projects, and for brands including Nike and Google. Herr continues to further his passion of telling interesting stories through visual mediums and expanding his creative process by working with smart and talented individuals.

Jim MacDonald is a Senior News Photographer/ Editor in the Parliamentary Bureau for CTV National News. He was previously posted in the Canadian networks Washington News Bureau. He was an active member of the WHNPA during his 20 years in D.C. For over 30 years he has covered news and worked on documentaries receiving honors from the WHNPA and CSC (Canadian Society of Cinematographers).

His work has taken him around the globe covering conflict zones including Bosnia, Afghanistan, Benghazi, 2 Olympic Games, the Arab Spring in Egypt, numerous political conventions, national disasters, royal weddings and everything in between. One of his latest assignments was to Nunavut in Canada’s high arctic to report on climate change and the water crisis in Iqaluit. Jim and his wife Janet are empty nesters living in a very cold Ottawa.



Kristi-Lee Neuberger has spent the last three years discovering every corner of New York City. From community gardens, to protests, to impeachment trials, to sports, and the monthly specials; Neuberger is down to cover everything and add her own creative spin. Taking her role as a photojournalist to its full potential, she’s had the opportunity to pitch, produce, shoot, write, and edit pieces for air.