Photography Categories
Top Honors
Video Photographer of the Year - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Breaking News
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - BJ Forte, NBC4
General News
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Third Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Brian Hopkins, WJLA-TV
Day Feature
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Sam Pinczuk, Global News
News Feature
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Award of Excellence - Peter Stolz, CTGN America
Feature
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First Place - Sam Pinczuk, Global News
News Special Reports/Series
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First Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Peter Stolz, CGTN America
Magazine or Documentary Feature
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First Place - Cameron Schwarz, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Second Place - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
Third Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Sports
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First Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Second Place - Doug Wilkes, WTTG
Political/Campaign
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Third Place - Victoria Fleischer, Jeremy Moorhead, CNN
White House/Presidential
There were no awards given in this category in 2023.
Lighting
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First Place - Christopher Albert, Independent
Second Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Network
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First Place - Ben Martin, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Andrew Smith, CNN
Third Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Audio
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First Place - Lance Ing, WRC-TV
Second Place - Brian Hopkins, WJLA-TV
Third Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Conflict/Disaster Coverage
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First Place - Cameron Schwarz, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Second Place - Kuba Wuls, CGTN
Raw Footage
There were no awards given in this category in 2023.
Editing Categories
Top Honors
Video Editor of the Year - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Breaking News
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First Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Award of Excellence - Michael Judge, NBC News
General News
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First Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Andrew Smith, CNN
Day Feature
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First Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Michael Judge, NBC News
Award of Excellence - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
News Feature
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First Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Second Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Third Place - Maxine Collins, BBC News
Award of Excellence - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Award of Excellence - Michael Judge, NBC News
Editing Short Form
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First Place - Charles MacDonald, CMacFido Productions
Second Place - Michael Judge, NBC News
Third Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Award of Excellence - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Award of Excellence - Edward Young, Sky News
Editing Long Form
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First Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Second Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Third Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Allen McGreevy, Freelance
Award of Excellence - Victoria Fleischer, CNN
Magazine Feature
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First Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Second Place - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Third Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Documentary
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First Place - Kamran Taherimoghaddam, CGTN America
Second Place - Marc Allard, Freelance
Sports
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First Place - Doug Wilkes, WTTG
Second Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Third Place - Michael Judge, NBC News
Award of Excellence - Ambrose Vurnis, WRC-TV
Political/Campaign
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First Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Third Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Edward Young, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Peter Murtaugh, BBC News
White House/Presidential
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First Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Second Place - Michael Judge, NBC News
Third Place - Edward Young, Sky News
Award of Excellence - Marc Allard, Freelance
Audio
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First Place - Chris Shlemon, ITN Channel 4 News
Second Place - Stuart Cohen, PBS Newshour
Third Place - Lance Ing, WRC-TV NBC 4
Award of Excellence - Brian Hopkins, WJLA-TV
Award of Excellence - McKenna Ewen, CNN
Promotional
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First Place - Charles MacDonald, CMacFido Productions
Second Place - Michael Herd, Sky News
2023 Broadcast Video Photography Judges
Bill Gorman began his career in 1979 at the American Forces Korea Network working the twice-daily half hour newscasts as a ENG cameraperson. After leaving the service he started working in Washington in 1982 for the custom news service Docuvid as a sound technician/tape editor. He joined DK Associates as a contract employee for the US Army School of Engineers as writer director of recruiting and training videos. At the end of 1984 he joined the Storer Washington News Bureau as a news cameraman/tape editor where he covered Congressional delegations and general national news with a local perspective. At the end of 1989 he started the Hearst Washington News bureau working as the Chief Photographer. In that unit, he photographed and edited daily Washington news and multi part investigative series for the Hearst owned television stations.
In October of 1994 he was hired by The Associated Press to become the senior news cameraman for the newly formed television news agency APTV. In that role he handled multiple domestic and international assignments. Ranging from the 1995 Oklahoma Bombing to peace talks at the River Wye. From New Delhi to Beijing to Pyongyang with Madeline Albright. The Haitian earthquakes, Kosovo and the Hong Kong Handover. Presidential campaigns, black bloc protests, numerous storms, and hurricanes, 911 at the Pentagon and then Guantanamo for the trials of the perpetrators of that infamous attack. Additionally, he was regularly assigned as part of the TV news agency pool to the White House. Awards include the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for a self-produced natural sound piece on the Oso Mudslide. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prizeas part of the team that produced the “Seafood Slaves” story. Was part of the APTN teams that were awarded Murrow Prizes for outstanding coverage of both the 911 attacks and 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Although retired, Bill continues to work to hone his skills as a still/portrait photographer. Most recently by photographing the campaign of Arkansas Democratic candidate for Governor Chris Jones.
Phil Kawasoe is a retired supervisor for field operations at CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). He currently is an independent lighting cameraman.
He started his career in 1972 with EIAJ type 1 B&W, 1″ videotape and worked shooting in multiple areas including documentaries, news, sports, the film industry-EPK, and international and national events.
A as freelancer his clients included Canadian, American, British, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Al Jazeera and Italian networks, over 34 years of news coverage. He traveled around the world for assignments in places such as Moscow, Beijing, London, Berlin, Geneva, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Vienna.
In 2010 he accepted a staff position at CBC News supervising and supporting national and local staff and freelance videographers, video producers and video journalists on domestic and foreign assignment. He retired from CBC in 2017.
Scott Plante has over 35 years’ experience working in the broadcast industry, encompassing documentaries, large multi camera events, network series, films and most recently National News.
He started his career by establishing Visualeyes Productions Ltd.
As a camera operator and DOP, he has travelled the world working on everything from a ballet series (Footnotes) for BRAVO to a children’s series (Wild Kratts) for PBS. As a freelancer, he has worked for all the major networks. He has received many awards over the years, in 2015 he received an EMMY for his work with FOX on their FIFA coverage.
Regardless of the size or type of production, Scott brings a focus and dedication to creating impactful and memorable images.
When COVID-19 hit, all television production came to a crashing halt. Fortunately, Scott was able to turn his freelance work at CTV (Canada) into a full-time position and is now working in Ottawa at their National bureau as a Senior ENG Tech.
2023 Broadcast Video Editing Judges
Dorry Gundy has had a long and successful career working as an editor and producer for television news programs. She is currently a multimedia producer at the Voice of America’s (VOA) Learning English division, where she produces and edits original digital and broadcast video content for English teachers and learners worldwide.
Dorry has been involved in television news gathering, editing, and production for over four decades. She began her career in Cleveland, Ohio, working at two major stations there, WEWS and WKYC, as a film processor and editor. As one of few women film processors and news editors working in the newsroom of a Cleveland television station, she was involved in the industry’s historic transition from film to videotape in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Dorry moved to Washington, in the early 1980’s and worked at ABC News as a video editor for multiple flagship news shows, including This Week with David Brinkley, World News Tonight, and Nightline.
In the late 1980’s, she started a freelance career as a video editor with international news organizations including France’s TFI, Danish TV and the BBC. At the BBC, she participated in and supported another major industry transition from videotape to digital news gathering, production and editing. She became a full-time video editor at the BBC in Washington covering major news events in North America for over 20 years. In 2009, while at the BBC, Dorry won two WHNPA ‘Eyes of History®’ awards for News Feature Editing and Inaugural Editing.
Greg Hotsenpiller is an Emmy, duPont-Columbia, Peabody and Scripps Howard award winning journalist, with over 25 years of experience working in the broadcast news industry in Washington. Currently, he is the principal features editor for CBS Mornings in the Washington DC bureau of CBS News. Previously Greg worked for WNET’s Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly as a producer, online editor and segment editor, where he shot, edited, and produced stories on location in Turkey, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, including covering the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Prior to that, Greg was a freelance editor, working with NBC News, Thomson Reuters, Canal 9, Global TV Canada, Kuwait TV, and SABC among others. Greg studied Film Production at The Pennsylvania State University. Greg and his wife Oonagh spend their free time traveling, cooking and taking care of their many animals.
Marley Parker is a seasoned professional in the industry with over 20 years of experience spanning film, video, photo, and web media. He owned a company making documentaries and music projects on the east coast of Canada before starting in news with CBC in Whitehorse, Yukon and then Toronto, Canada. Currently, he is a senior news photographer/editor at CTV National News in Ottawa, covering political events in Canada’s capital city.
He also spent five years in Washington, capturing historic moments during the end of the Obama era and the presidency of Donald Trump, including the reopening of travel to Cuba and the North Korea-US peace talks. Marley’s self-taught skills, unique perspective, and passion for his work are evident in every shot and edit. When he isn’t working, he is listening to or playing music and has recorded on an ECMA-winning album.