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JUDGES - Q1 '07 WPJA CONTEST
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SAM CRANSTON, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Sam Cranston credits his experiences as a missionary kid, exploring
the highlands of Papua New Guinea with his first camera, for setting him on a photojournalistic trek. His first newspaper credit appeared in the national
newspaper on a self-generated photo story about a hydroelectric project.
After high school, Sam returned to the U.S. and started stringing for local newspapers while completing a degree at the Southeast Center for Photographic
Studies in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Since early 1989 he has been on staff at The Daytona Beach News-Journal. For the past three years as Assistant Managing Editor of Photography, he has
challenged a fifteen-member team to purposefully improve their photographic tradition through active, thoughtful, personal journalism.
Throughout his professional career, Sam has managed to keep his mission roots healthy by freelancing and/or donating photographic coverage for many NGO’s. In
2006 this work brought him to Haiti, India, Philippines, Honduras and Guatemala.
Sam’s heart is for people and their stories and he is committed to the belief that photojournalism, in all its personifications, is still the most powerful way
to grip and move readers (viewers).
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RITA REED, DIRECTOR / PROFESSOR
Rita Reed has been a staff photographer at the Minneapolis
Star Tribune for 10 years, where she has won the state photographer
of the year multiple times. A recipient of the Nikon Sabbatical
grant, Rita has also photographed and written, "Growing Up
Gay in America, the Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence," a
documentary black and white project published as a book by
Norton in 1997.
She is an Associate Professor in the photojournalism sequence
of the Missouri School of Journalism. Prior to joining the
University of Missouri faculty, Reed worked as a photojournalist
for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. She was the 1993 recipient
of the NPPA/Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant.
Rita has served as Director of the College Photographer of
the Year competition for the past six years.
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CAROL ENQUIST, PHOTO EDITOR
Carol, a 30-year veteran of the National Geographic Society, has been a photo
editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine since its inception in 1983.
She has assigned and worked with photographers worldwide on hundreds of assignments
ranging from volunteer vacations in India to Paris hotels and from an insider's
look at Provence to the effects of tourism on Cambodia. Carol edits feature
stories and the several departments in each issue. She is also responsible
for organizing and supervising the annual photo contest as well as serving
as one of the judges. Carol has taught at the Travel Writers and Photographers
Conference in Corte Madera, California and the Maine Photographic Worshops.
Prior to her work at Traveler, she researched and photo edited books at the
National Geographic Society and at Time-Life Books.
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JEANIE ADAMS-SMITH, ASST PROF. OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
Award winning photographer based in Bowling Green, KY, where she
is an Assistant Professor of photojournalism at Western Kentucky
University. She worked at the Chicago Tribune for 10 years as a
picture editor.
She has lectured at the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference
and chaired a national Women in Photojournalism conference, sponsored
by the National Press Photographers Association.
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DENNY SIMMONS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Denny Simmons, BJ '93 is a University of Missouri graduate, currently a photographer with the Evansville Courier & Press. Past positions include picture editor at the
News Sun (Waukegan, Ill.), picture editor at the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, and photographer at the Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal-Courier. Simmons was recently named NPPA
Region 4 Photographer of the Year in 2004 (as well as 2002). He also serves as Region 4 Director. Simmons has been Indiana News Photographers Association Photographer of the
Year, and he has won the INPA Clip POY five times. He was awarded the title of College Photographer of the Year for work done in 1992. Simmons is married to Penny (yeah,
Penny and Denny) and they have two kids, Ben, 9, and Hannah, 7. They've also got a 12-year-old Pembroke Welsh corgi named Jax.
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