Lisa Krantz is a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News. Before joining the staff of the Express News, she spent five years as a staff photographer at the Naples (FL) Daily News. She holds a master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Florida State University. In 2011, her portfolio placed third in the Newspaper Photographer of the Year competition in Pictures of the Year International. Her project chronicling a year at Sam Houston High School, a troubled school threatened with closure, also placed in Issue Reporting Picture Story and was a finalist for the Community Awareness Award in POYi. The project was part of the portfolio that earned Lisa the 2010 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism and was a finalist for the 2011 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism and the ASNE Community Photojournalism Award. She is also a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year, for work in 2005, 2009 and 2010. Lisa has served on the faculty of the Eddie Adams Workshop, The Fall Workshop at Syracuse University and the Weekend In Workshop at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is currently the Diversity Chair for the NPPA.

David Gilkey is staff photographer and video editor for National Public Radio covering national and international news and producing photo essays, video, multimedia presentations for NPR.org and radio reports for NPR. As one of the first unilateral journalists to enter Afghanistan and the first to cross the border into Iraq while embedded with the U.S. Army, Gilkey has been covering the war on terrorism since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Other news events he has covered include the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Haiti earthquake, the fall of apartheid in South Africa, famine and conflict in Somalia, tribal warfare in Rwanda and the war in the Balkans. The Haiti work earned Gilkey two 2011 Investigative Reporters & Editors awards. Also in 2011, he was named Still Photographer of the Year by the White House Press Photographers Association and saw his story “Black Hearts†awarded second in the Multimedia News Story category of POYi. His contribution to the NPR Investigation “Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing the Wounded†was recognized with a 2010 George Polk Award. While on the staff of the Detroit Free Press, Gilkey won a national Emmy in 2007 for his video series “Band of Brothers†, and was the 2004 Michigan Photographer of the Year. His first job after studying journalism at Oregon State University was with the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera where he handled local assignments for the newspaper and overseas assignments for Knight Ridder.

Alice Gabriner joined National Geographic Magazine as a senior photo editor in January 2011, after serving as deputy director of photography in the Obama White House. Previously, she was chief picture editor at TIME Magazine, leading the photo department through the campaign, election and inauguration of President Barack Obama. From 2003 to 2009, she oversaw the magazine’s award winning coverage of the Iraq war. During the 2000 election and first term of President George W. Bush, as Time’s national picture editor, she supported the work of Christopher Morris that resulted in the acclaimed book, “My America.†Before joining TIME, Gabriner was the deputy director of photography at U.S News & World Report, where for 12 years she edited national and international news images. She has won numerous photo editing awards and produced several books, including Time’s commemorative edition, President Obama: Path to the White House with pictures by Callie Shell which made the New York Times Best Seller List. Gabriner has also curated photography exhibitions for Christopher Morris, Yuri Kozyrev, and Pete Souza.

Lisa Krantz is a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News. Before joining the staff of the Express News, she spent five years as a staff photographer at the Naples (FL) Daily News. She holds a master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Florida State University. In 2011, her portfolio placed third in the Newspaper Photographer of the Year competition in Pictures of the Year International. Her project chronicling a year at Sam Houston High School, a troubled school threatened with closure, also placed in Issue Reporting Picture Story and was a finalist for the Community Awareness Award in POYi. The project was part of the portfolio that earned Lisa the 2010 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism and was a finalist for the 2011 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism and the ASNE Community Photojournalism Award. She is also a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year, for work in 2005, 2009 and 2010. Lisa has served on the faculty of the Eddie Adams Workshop, The Fall Workshop at Syracuse University and the Weekend In Workshop at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is currently the Diversity Chair for the NPPA.

Geri Migielicz is co-founder and executive editor of Story4, a multimedia production studio, specializing in video for the web, training and consulting. She was Director of Photography at the San Jose Mercury News from 1993 to 2009. Under Geri’s tenure, the Mercury News garnered major national awards for photo editing and photo usage, making the paper a destination for the leading talent in the photojournalism industry due to its innovation in both print and web storytelling. Geri was executive producer of a 2007 national News and Documentary Emmy Award-winning web documentary, Uprooted, for mercurynews.com. She worked on the team leading the coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake that won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize in general news reporting for the Mercury News. She also supervised the paper’s coverage of California’s recall election, a 2003 Pulitzer finalist in Feature Photography. Geri was a 2004-05 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she studied multimedia narratives. She is adjunct faculty at Stanford University’s Department of Communication, teaching multimedia to graduate journalism students. She has served as visiting faculty at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and has been an instructor and advisory board member for the Stan Kalish Workshop. Migielicz has also been faculty at the Missouri Photo Workshop, and a presenter at workshops held by the Society of Newspaper Design, the National Press Photographers Association and the regional chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. She has a B.J. from the Missouri School of Journalism and did graduate studies in journalism at Ohio University.

Colin Mulvany is a multimedia producer and staff photographer at The Spokesman-Review, a 70,000-circulation newspaper that covers eastern Washington and North Idaho. After 18 years as a staff photojournalist, Mulvany made the transition to online storytelling by becoming his newspaper’s first multimedia producer in 2004. Since that time, he has produced hundreds of video feature stories and audio slideshows for his newspaper'ss Spokesman.com website. As multimedia editor in 2008, Mulvany trained 14 reporters, photographers and online producers to shoot and edit video. He also helped the editorial department transition to a more multimedia-focused workflow. Mulvany has been honored for his photography and multimedia in Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, Society of Newspaper Design, the National Headliners Awards and the NPPA's Monthly Multimedia Contest. In his spare time, Mulvany produces a popular industry blog called "Mastering Multimedia," and "Finding the Frame," a video storytelling critique website for photojournalists. Mulvany coaches and speaks at video storytelling workshops around the country and is the National Press Photographers Association Monthly Multimedia Contest chairman.

Joe Weiss the developer of Soundslides, a multimedia authoring application for journalists, and frequent CPOY judge returns this year as the moderator of the multimedia division judging. Joe has worked as a photojournalist, multimedia reporter, designer, programmer, producer and editor in print and online media since 1996. Currently an independent interactive producer, he was formerly interactive producer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., the Director of Photography at The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C., and a multimedia producer for MSNBC.com. His multimedia reports have garnered national and international recognition including an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association, multiple POYi and BOP multimedia awards, and two Digital Edge awards from the NAA. For his development of Soundslides, he was awarded the J. Winton Lemen Award from the NPPA. Weiss frequently speaks at seminars and workshops about the integration of photojournalism, audio reportage and multimedia technology.