Geri Migielicz | MPW.59 | Missouri Photo Workshop

Geri Migielicz is the Director of Photography at the San Jose Mercury News, a newspaper with a national reputation for its innovation and excellence in photojournalism, photo editing and multimedia. She was a 2004-05 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where she studied multimedia narratives.
Geri is a founding board member of Associated Press Photo Managers, an organization committed to the sharing of best practices and the professional development of photo editors and managers.
She has been visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute for Journalism Studies, the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and Society for Newspaper Design workshops.
She has won numerous awards for photo editing in the Pictures of the Year International and Society for News Design annual contests. Under her direction, the San Jose Mercury News has won POYi’s Angus McDougall Award for Excellence in Picture Editing and its coverage of the California recall election was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.