Hertzberg's court photography honored again

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 2:33 AM CDT

Hertzberg's trial photography honored again

Journal Times staff

RACINE - Mark Hertzberg, the director of photography at The Journal Times, has been named winner of the Joseph Costa Award of Courtroom Photography for an unprecedented fourth time since 1987. The annual award, which is given by the Journalism Department of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., honors the ideals of Joseph Costa, a founder of the National Press Photographers Association and former lecturer in the Department of Journalism, who led a crusade to give photojournalists an equal footing with reporters in the nation's courtrooms.

Hertzberg won the award for his coverage of the Adrial White trial in November, He used his laptop computer to transmit photos from the courtroom, from jury selection until White was found guilty a week later. While the newspaper was limited in the number of pictures it could publish in the print edition, space on the newspaper's Web site had no limit and dozens of his pictures were published on-line throughout the trial.

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