TV Photography Judges
Stuart Clark, Neil Giurintano, Andrea Korff
Stuart Clark
Now a Senior Photojournalist with CNN in Atlanta, Stuart Clark began his
photojournalism career at Cable News Network in its 5th year of operation.
In his 22 years at CNN Stuart has covered eight presidential candidates'
races, three Olympic Games, several terrorist attacks and multiple natural
disasters. His assignments have taken him to fifty states and 23 countries.Stuart's extensive experience in the Middle East dates before the first Gulf War and includes assignments in Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He began photographing the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing within hours of the event, and spent nearly two weeks in New York
City immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Stuart made repeated visits to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as part of
CNN's Peabody award-winning team covering Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath. His work on the CNN coverage of the 1993 floods in the
Midwestern US won him an Emmy Award.
In addition to his work in breaking news, Stuart is an accomplished
documentary and news feature photographer. He spent two years on the crew
of Larry Woods' "Across America" filming human interest stories. He holds
sole photography credit for the 2002 CNN Presents documentary "Captured"
about how the American military trains soldiers to react in the event of
capture. Other news feature credits include "Driven to Succeed," a CNN
medical special with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Stuart photographed the arrival of the third millennium from Auckland, New
Zealand, and spent six weeks in Japan filming the 2002 World Cup Soccer
Championship.
Stuart holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. He lives in the
Atlanta area with his wife Caroline and three sons.
Neil Giurintano is a photographer at WGNO-TV, the ABC affiliate in New Orleans. Neil has been in the business over 20 years and worked in Richmond, Nashville, and his hometown, New Orleans. He has covered everything from presidential and Papal visits to Superbowls and Mardi Gras, but without a doubt, Hurricane Katrina presented the biggest professional challenge of his career. Living through Katrina and its aftermath has helped Neil become aware of the critical role that journalism, newsgathering and storytelling play in our American society.
Andrea Korff
Since 1982, Andrea Korff has worked as a broadcast television photographer and editor. In 1984, she joined the staff at the CBS station in Philadelphia, KYW-TV covering regional, national, and international news events. For the past 5 years Korff has been primarily the Special Projects Photographer and in the early nineties, she was a primary photographer on a local weekly news magazine show The Bulletin. With a formal background in film, both still photography as well as 16mm documentary filmmaking, Ms. Korff's work shows a strong emphasis on lighting. She has won numerous Emmy awards, as well as Associated Press Awards. With the advent of non-linear editing, Korff saw a chance to revisit her love of filmmaking and she established a freelance business where she can produce, shoot, and edit various types of projects. In the last decade she began to more strongly revisit her love of still photography and began exhibiting her work around Philadelphia. Korff also took part in a traveling group show that had exhibition stops in both the Erie and Lancaster Museums of Art. She is currently studying photo studio portraiture in an effort to move into more commercial realms as well as expand on the artistic side of her still photography work. She continues working full time at KYW-TV.
TV Editing Judges
Tom Fitzgerald, Simon Gribben, John Hyjek
Simon Gribben (no photo available) is an award-winning writer, producer, director, and editor of television news and sports. He has won several Emmys as a producer of one-hour specials and a news series. He also won an Emmy as a film editor for ABC Sports and has been nominated twice as a sports writer. Two of the films he edited for ABC Sports won first place for public relations films at the New York International TV and Film Festival. Mr. Gribben is the creator of the original “The Football Follies” which has become an iconic franchise for the NFL. Among his many awards is a “Cine Eagle” and first place for best documentary at the University Film Association: a 10-minute “cinema verite” of a Catasaqua pizza bar. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has five of his films films in their collection, all of which he wrote, produced, directed, and edited. He even shot and narrated one of them. The Museum of Television and Radio in New York has dozens of his works that includes a Public Access show he hosted in Santa Monica on metaphysics. Mr. Gribben was born and raised in Allentown, PA, is divorced and has two children. Two final notes: In 1975 he was ordained as a Sufi Reverend and has been a wandering dervish ever since. He also is a published poet.
John Hyjek is stationed in Atlanta for NBC NEWS. You’ve seen his work on the NBC shows Nightly News with Brian Williams [& Tom Brokaw], the Today Show, Dateline NBC, MSNBC, & CNBC. Three times National Press Photographer Association (NPPA) Editor of the Year, recipient of three National EMMY awards (two for individual achievement) he began his career as a photographer/editor in Hartford, CT with Post Newsweek. Gannett lured John to what is now KARE TV in Minneapolis. There, as a producer/photographer/editor he won numerous awards including Golden Eagles, Edward R Murrow, a Kodak Photography Crystal, Headliners, and many more. In just three short years he helped lead the photo staff in turning the station’s ranking from number four to number one. John credits his success to the fundamentals he learned in the NPPA Newsvideo Workshop. He’s been on the NPPA Storytelling Faculty since 1995.
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