• First Place National Press Photographers Award Goes to Almudena Toral, ’10

    By Amy Dunkin | Last updated on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at 11:04 am

    Damian Lopez Alfonso

    2010 alum Almudena Toral has won the top prize in the Sports Multimedia category in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Web Photojournalism contest.

    Her piece for The New York Times website, Damian’s Ride, tells the story of Damian Lopez Alfonso, a world class cyclist who was severely disfigured and lost his forearms in a childhood accident in Cuba and is now training to compete in the 2012 Paralympics in London this summer.

    CUNY J-School video journalism instructor Bob Sacha called Toral “a star pupil” in his Video Storytelling for the Web class.

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