BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2016): Mark Fiore -- Presentation

DC -- Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2016): Mark Fiore -- Presentation:

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Description of Pictures: THE HERB BLOCK FOUNDATION cordially invites you to Award Ceremony & Lecture
Lecturer -- Mark Shields
Prize Winner -- Mark Fiore
Presenters in sequence:
* David Mao, Acting Librarian of Congress
* Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation
* Mark Fiore, accepting the prize (and mentioning "Trump" only once)
* Clarence Page, Herblock Foundation board member
* Mark Shields, Keynote Talk
* Q&A: Mark Shields and Mark Fiore

Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore, who The Wall Street Journal has called “the undisputed guru of the form,” creates animated political cartoons in San Francisco. His work has appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle’s web site, Newsweek.com, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, MotherJones.com, NPR’s web site and is currently being featured on online news sites
ranging from KQED and Truthdig.com to The Progressive and DailyKos.com. Fiore’s political animation has been featured on CNN, Frontline, BillMoyers.com, Salon.com
and cable and broadcast outlets across the globe.
Beginning his professional life by drawing traditional political cartoons for newspapers, Fiore’s work appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times. In the late 1990s, he began to experiment with animating political cartoons and, after a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as their staff cartoonist, Fiore devoted all his energies to animation.
Mark Fiore was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 2010, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2004 and has twice received an Online Journalism Award
for commentary from the Online News Association (2002, 2008). Fiore has received two awards for his work in new media from the National Cartoonists Society (2001, 2002), and in 2006 received The James Madison Freedom of Information Award from The Society of Professional Journalists.
Judges for this year’s contest were Kevin Kallaugher (KAL), editorial cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun and The Economist, winner of the 2015 H ...More...

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