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. She 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 a lecturer at Society for Newspaper Design and National Press Photographers Association workshops. She has also taught multimedia to communication graduate students at Stanford University.
Geri has been an annual winner of awards for photo editing in the Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism 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.
The Mercury News’ photo web site has twice been among the top three publications honored for “Best Use Interactive Publication/ major media” in POYi, and the National Press Photographers Association named the site “Best Use of the Web” for all news sites in the 2007 BoP contest. In the 65th POYi contest, the Mercury News, the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News were the only newspapers to win awards in photography, multimedia and editing categories.
She has a B.J. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and did graduate studies in journalism at Ohio University.