'Spilling Over' awarded Best in Show in NPPA multimedia contest

“Spilling Over,” a documentary video from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s News21 project “Powering a Nation,” won Best In Show honors in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contest's multimedia categories.

The video — created by master’s students Lauren Frohne and Elena Rue and undergraduates Jessey Dearing and Mike Ehrlich — also took first place in the Documentary Video category. USA Today placed second in the category, and the San Jose Mercury News placed third. May 2011 graduate Caitlyn Greene was awarded honorable mention for "One Of The Boys," a video produced for the 2010 Carolina Photojournalism Workshop "Little Switzerland Stories." The New York Times also received an honorable mention.

August 2011 graduate Margaret Cheatham Williams’ “Goodnight Moon” won first place in the Feature Video category. The Washington Post won second and third, and The New York Times was awarded honorable mention in the category.

The final round was judged by Theresa Collington, and executive online producer for WTSP-TV in Tampa Bay, Fla.; Seth Gitner, an assistant professor of newspaper and online journalism at Syracuse University; John Makely, a senior multimedia editor at MSNBC.com; and Merry Murray, a photojournalist at KSN-TV in Wichita, Kan. The judging was coordinated by Jack Rowland, who is the Best Of Photojournalism Multimedia chair and a senior video producer at the St. Petersburg Times.