Mark Edelson is Presentation Editor at The Palm Beach Post, where he works with photographers, designers, reporters and editors on the packaging of stories throughout the paper.

He joined The Post as a picture editor in 1993, and since then has been named Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year eight times.  He's also been the lead picture editor or designer for the Post team that has earned numerous awards in the Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year, Society for News Design and in the Picture Editing Quarterly Clip Contests.  In 2004 he was named Picture Editor of the Year at BOP, the Post won Best Use of Photography at POY and in the PEQCC, and the Post photo staff was a Pulitzer finalist for photographic coverage of Florida's 2004 hurricanes.

Edelson has had the opportunity and good fortune to work closely with -- both learn from and guide -- nine regional photographers of the year.  He's been a judge at numerous contests, including POY, BOP and SND, and regularly participates in workshops and seminars from which, he says, he derives as much knowledge and inspiration as any of the students.  Prior to joining The Post, he was Director of Photography at The Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale.  From 1981 to 1988 he was at The Sun-Tattler in Hollywood, Fl, working first as a photographer, then photo editor, page designer and finally Graphics Director.