2010 VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO EDITING CONTEST JUDGES
Steve Childress
Steve Childress is an independent producer and owner of Forerunner Productions in Kansas City. He has nearly 30 years of experience producing, shooting and editing. Credits include Emmy Award winning documentaries and television news, as well as sports and entertainment programming. Before opening Forerunner in 1999, Steve was V.P. & Senior Editor with ImageMaster Productions in Atlanta, Senior Post Production Director at WXIA-TV in Atlanta and Senior Post Production Editor at WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
ANNE HERBST
Anne Herbst shoots like a girl.
What does that mean, exactly? It doesn’t mean that she has a horrible jump shot—in fact, she dominates at “horse” on the basketball court. What Anne thinks it means is that she shoots and edits with her heart and her gut. She believes that gorgeous shots of sunflowers and rainbows don’t make for perfect stories—perfect moments do.
Anne has been shooting for about six years—some of them in graduate school at CU-Boulder, some of them at KWCH in Wichita, KS, and the rest at KUSA in Denver, CO. During this time she’s won some Emmys, some regional and national NPPA awards and a regional Murrow—but the coolest thing has been being a member of the staff that won the NPPA’s 2009 Station of the Year.
At KUSA, Anne not only shoots and edits, but regularly writes and produces her own stories. She thinks even press conference stories can be a blast, and loves doing stories on interesting people with odd hobbies. Anne thinks it’s important to try to have the most memorable story in the newscast—and also the loudest laugh in the newsroom. It doesn’t hurt to have a sweet jump shot either.
GREGORY HICKEY
Greg Hickey’s experience in journalism began in 1996 as an editor in post-production and special projects for WTVJ-TV, Miami. He later moved to the Cleveland market, working as news editor in special projects for WKYC-TV, Cleveland in 1999.
In 2004, Greg left news to pursue projects as an editor and producer for several documentaries seen regionally, and nationally - including A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho (PBS, 2005) and America s Iliad: The Siege of Charleston (PBS / SC-ETV, 2007).
Greg later joined Columbus-based Mills James Productions in 2007, where he now enjoys a career in editing and visual effects. He resides in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife, Kristina, along with a couple of cool daughters: Jordan & Alexandra.
Hickey is a graduate of Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, Ohio
 MICHAEL THORNE
Michael Thorne has been a staff photographer/editor for WABC-TV for the past 10 years. Over that time, he's been fortunate to have the opportunity to witness some prominent events in world history.
From the death of a beloved pope, several presidential campaigns (some successful...some not so successful), several world series victories round out his experiences.
Michael is also an experienced editor. He works daily with the AURORA system but uses AVID & Final Cut Pro for long format pieces as well.
STEVE SWEITZER
Steve Sweitzer has over thirty years of broadcast TV news experience; shooting, writing, editing, field producing and operations management. Among his numerous awards, he has been Indiana News Photographer of the Year and taken a first place in the Associated Press reporting category. He is the owner of Sweitzer Productions, a multimedia services company.
He is a past president of the National Press Photographers Association and has received their Sprague Award, their highest honor for his achievements and contributions to the field of photojournalism.
Steve is chair of the NPPA’s Advanced StoryTelling Workshop and the Virtual Video Workshop. He has judged numerous contests including the NPPA’s video Best of Photojournalism contest
 Marc VanSchaick
Marc VanSchaick is an award winning photojournalist who has won numerous industry accolades, including the Emmy and national Edward R Murrow award.
VanSchaick’s career began at age 16 when the cameras had tubes instead of chips as imaging devices. During his early years he shot, edited and produced commercial work on Long Island N.Y.
His news career took off at local neighborhood news 12 on Long Island in 1998 as a graphic artist/Photographer Editor. VanSchaick quickly moved on to News 12 - Connecticut in 1999 as a sports photographer and onto general assignment and features photographer.
In the summer of 2008, VanSchaick began his 17th year in photojournalism covering news events for WABC 7-Eyewittness news in New York.
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