2018 Year End Contest
Khai Le
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Student Photojournalist of the Year



























Best UCLA Sports Photo - Sponsored by the Stan Troutman Endowment Fund
Best Still Animal - Sponsored by The Don Brinn Endowment Fund


Best Video Animal - Sponsored by The Don Brinn Endowment Fund
1st place: Sean Browning / KNBC “Foster kittens”
Alex Vasquez / KNBC “Pitbull adoptions”
Ernesto Torres / KNBC “Face Justice”
Best Still Portrait



Best Video Live Coverage
1st place: Sam Dubin / KTTV: “Woolsey Fire”
Ernesto Torres / KNBC: “Flames have erupted”
Ernesto Torres / KNBC: “Move Forward”
Best Video Breaking News - Sponsored by The Bill Knight Endowment Fund
1st place: Art Quezada / KMEX “Woolsey Fire”
2nd place: Ernesto Torres / KNBC “They are ferocious”
3rd place: Francisco Vasquez / KMEX “Ice Protest”
Best Still Breaking News - Sponsored by The Old Farts Society Endowment Fund

Best Still Fire - Sponsored by The United Firefighters of Los Angeles City / IAFF Local 112 AFL-CIO


Best Video Fire - Sponsored by The United Firefighters of Los Angeles City / IAFF Local 112 AFL-CIO
1st place: Ernesto Torres / KNBC “An Inferno”
2nd place: Alex Vasquez / KNBC “Woolsey fire hope”
3rd place: Ernesto Torres / KNBC “Fire is raging”
Best Still Feature

Best Web News Feature
1st place: Gina Ferazzi / LA Times “A soldiers Story his last journey home”
2nd place: Alex Vasquez / KNBC “Students meet veterans”
3rd place: Thomas R Cordova / Long Beach Post “Igors Aley”
Best Video Feature - Day of Air
1st place: Sean Browning KNBC / “Santa’s Village”
2nd place: Joel Fallon CBS2 / KCAL9 “Lebron James Pizza”
3rd place: Francisco Vasquez / KMEX “Mexican Chile”
Best Video Feature - Evergreen
1st place: Juan Hernandez / KMEX “300 Metros De Musica”
2nd place: Kenny Holmes / KNBC “Inside the the DMZ”
Lifetime Achievement
Walt Mancini
Carl Stein
Best Still Sports Action

Best Still Sports Feature

Best Video Sports Action - “Day of Air”
1st place: Alex Vasquez/KNBC “South Hills wins championship”
Best Web Sports Feature
1st place: Alex Vasquez/KNBC “Honky Tonk Man WWE Legend”
2nd place: Thomas Cordova/Long Beach Post “Monster”
3rd place: Alex Vasquez/Telemundo “Nascar weekend”
Best Video Sports Feature - Evergreen
2nd place: Kenny Holmes/KNBC “Serving up success”
3rd place: Art Quezada/KMEX “Legado Karateca”
Best Video Sports Feature - Day of Air
1st place: Andres Bonilla/KMEX “El Derecho A La Salud”
2nd place: Alex Vasquez/KNBC “Superbowl experience”
3rd place: Kenny Holmes/KNBC “Olympic Outfit”
Best Still Music & Performing Arts - Sponsored by The Otto Rothschild Endowment Fund


Best Video In-Depth
1st place: Andres Pruna / KMEX “Secrets of the Amazon”
2nd place: Andres Pruna / KMEX “Somos Mas”
3rd place: Francisco Vasquez / KMEX “Autism Evictions”
Best Web News / In-Depth / Profile
1st place: Gina Ferazzi / LA Times “The notebook”
2nd place: Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post “Ten Hundred”
3rd place: Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post “Narsiso Martinez”
Best Still Photo Essay
1st Place - Gina Ferazzi / LA Times
2nd Place - Keith Birmingham / Pasadena Star-News
3rd Place - David Hume Kennerly / Freelance
Best Still General News
Best Web General News
1st place: Thomas R. Cordova/ Long Beach Post “Danno”
2nd place Alex Vasquez/ KNBC “September 11 Students remember”
3rd place: Thomas R. Cordova/ Long Beach Post “Balloon Lady”
Best Video General News - Sponsored by the Bill Knight Endowment Fund
1st place: Art Quezada / KMEX “Immigrant caravan”
2nd place: Hector V Gonzalez / KMEX “Gang Task Force”
3rd place: Alex Vazquez / KNBC “Holiday Boat DUI enforcement”
Best Video Multi-Camera
1st place: Ernesto Torres, Rene Luna, Gustavo Barrios, Tony Shin / KNBC “Still Alive”
2nd place: Joel Fallon, John Schreiber / CBS2 KCAL9 “Hot Weather”
3rd place: Azucena Varela, Sean Browning / KNBC “Topanga Canyon Mudslide Drone”
Videographer of the Year - Sponsored by Canon USA
Alex Vasquez / KNBC
Photojournalist of the Year - Sponsored by Nikon
Winner - Ringo Chiu/ Los Angeles Business Journal/ Freelance