Class 7a – Feature photo
Class 7b – Environmental portrait or personality photo
Class 8a – Picture story
Class 8b - Photo series
Class 9 - Service photo
Class 10 – Photo illustration
Outstanding Professional Skill Award Judge for Photography Category

Carol Schwalbe has been an assistant professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since fall 2002. She teaches magazine writing, editing and online journalism and also produces the award-winning Cronkite online magazine (http://cronkitezine.asu.edu). Before coming to ASU, Schwalbe enjoyed a long career at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., where her duties included text editing, serving as an online producer for the National Geographic Web site, and working as an editor-writer in the book division. Schwalbe has written chapters for five books, was the assistant editor of two books ("The Wonder of Birds" and "Lost Empires, Living Tribes"), and the editor of three ("The Adventure of Archaeology," "Our World's Heritage" and "Discover America"). Schwalbe says, "I worked closely with photographers while I was at National Geographic. I've also done numerous presentations on travel photography as a lecturer for National Geographic Travel Tours. In 1996, I won grand prize and third prize in a photography contest sponsored by Victoria House in Belize."

Schwalbe’s research focuses on the role of images in shaping ideas and public opinion during the early years of the Cold War, ethical concerns about publishing violent images, and the visual framing of the Iraq War, especially on the Internet. Her bibliographic essay on images of violence and tragedy placed second in a national research competition. A co-authored paper on the ethics of publishing grisly images won second place in another national research competition. This paper was the lead article in the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, which has also accepted a co-authored article on depictions of the injured and dead in the Iraq War. The journal editor found this paper so valuable that even before it was published, her graduate students used the research results in their term papers.

Schwalbe spends weekends during the school year and summers with her husband in Tucson, where he is a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.

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