The 2013 NPOY judging has been completed (and the live coverage has ended). A big “thank you” to the judges Lana Slezic, Louie Palu and Ken Faught.

Moe Doiron, The Globe and Mail’s photo editor, organized and moderated the judging.

Ryan Jackson, staff photographer and multimedia producer extraordinaire (see his blog) for the Edmonton Journal, was responsible for the live video streaming and other technical magic.

 

Note: The five-hour video (above) has been edited to remove the several pauses that were used to hide the winning pictures, the lunch break, coffee breaks, etc.

 

 

 

 
World Press Photo today announced that US photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency has won World Press Photo of the Year 2013. All winning pictures of the 57th annual contest were published today.

Added: The multimedia portion of the contest was judged later in March and the multimedia winners are posted here.

 
 

Newzapalooza 2013 is set for November 1st at the Opera House in Toronto. The annual musical event has featured wanna-be rock stars from various news organizations such as the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, Macleans, CBC, Thomson Reuters, CityTV, CTV and MTV Canada. This “battle of the bands” competition is in support of the Childrens Aid Foundation and has so far raised about $60,000 for the charity.

 

Added November 8: Pictures from this event are here.

 

 

By John Lehmann, 2013-15 NPAC President

 

Change seems to be the only constant in our industry and not surprisingly, the same holds true for the News Photographers Association of Canada.

At the 2013 Annual General Meeting held during the April conference in Calgary, I was elected to the NPAC board. I know this change was sudden and somewhat unexpected for many but as one of the original founders of this organization, I felt I could help refocus the direction of our group.

Looking ahead as president, I’d like to share three points that form the goal of making us a better organization. We need greater transparency within the organization, become a better advocate for Canadian photojournalists and be more mindful of our expenses.

Financially speaking, NPAC is in a grim state. The current board has reviewed the organization’s accounts spanning the past three years and revenues have steadily declined as expenses have increased. This trend has left the organization with a deficit of about $10,000. This may seem like an insurmountable amount of debt but I strongly believe that with a financial strategy in place and control of spending, we’ll get out of debt and be a more financially secure organization.
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Former Toronto Star photographer, Boris Spremo, was recently named to the Canadian News Hall of Fame.

 

A small gallery of his photos are on the Star’s photo blog.

Along with Spremo, Les Pyette, former Sun Media editor-publisher, will be officially inducted into the News Hall of Fame during an October 2013 ceremony in Toronto.

At least one other photographer is in the News Hall of Fame. Norman James was inducted in 1981 after a 40-year(?) career at the Toronto Star.