Thomson Reuters has won six prizes in the prestigious Pictures of the Year International (POYi) awards for 2009. Established in 1944, POYi, a programme of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, is one of the most highly regarded annual international competitions for press photography. This year the jury reviewed some 45,000 images.
Thomson Reuters was awarded the following prizes:
Multimedia (News Story): 1st place – Finbarr O’Reilly
One Week’s Work: Winner – Susana Vera
Documentary Project of the Year: Finalist – Reuters Bearing Witness
Spot News: 2nd place – Gleb Garanich
Feature Picture: Award of Excellence – Sigit Pamungkas
Reuters, the world’s largest international news agency, has 2,500 staff photographers, journalists and cameramen based in 197 bureaux serving 132 countries and distributes over half a million images every year.
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