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News photography award

The World Photojournalism Competition (WPP) is sponsored by the Netherlands-based World Photojournalism Foundation. The association was founded on 1955. Since 1957, the first world photojournalism competition was held, and it has been held for 50 times by 2007.

The "Lotus Award" is divided into breaking news, general news, news figures, sports actions, sports topics, contemporary hot spots, daily life, portraits, art and nature *** 10 categories, which basically covers all aspects of news photography. Each category is divided into individual photos and group photos (no more than 12).

This competition is one of the largest and most prestigious photojournalism competitions in the world. Its purpose is to "promote information freedom, unrestricted communication and encourage high-level professional news photography", which has played a significant role in promoting the development of news photography all over the world. According to the will of Joseph Pulitzer (1born in Budapest, Hungary in April, 847), the Columbia Journalism Institute was established in 19 12, and the Pulitzer Prize was established in19/7. Pulitzer prizes include news prizes and art prizes. There are 0/4 news awards and 7 literary awards, among which news awards mainly include: public service award, reporting award, editing award, cartoon award, criticism award, communication award, feature award, photojournalism award, etc. Literary and artistic awards include novel awards, drama awards, poetry awards, American historical works awards, autobiography or biography awards and non-fiction awards; Music composition award 1. In addition, two special prizes were awarded. Public service awards are generally awarded to newspapers, and the prize is a gold medal. Winners of other awards can get bonuses and certificates of $654.38+00,000 yuan.

The first Pulitzer Prize for Photography was awarded by 1942. After that, it will be issued once a year except 1946. Since 1968, the photography category has added a special news photography award, and the winning works usually consist of a group of photos.