JUDGES

Linda Epstein is the Senior Photo Editor for the Secretary of State.

 

For 7 years prior she was Senior Photo Editor at ShareAmerica, a division of Global Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

 

Previously, Linda was a contract photo editor with the Washington Post which included photo researcher for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning national database won by the Post for national reporting.

 

Prior, Linda spent 15 years as Senior Photo Editor for McClatchy-Tribune (formerly Knight Ridder/Tribune), handling all the photos for the McClatchy Washington Bureau's regional, national and foreign correspondents.

 

Prior to KRT, she worked as a picture editor and assignments editor during her three years at The Washington Times.

 

Linda started her journalism career as a photographer for several newspapers in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio.

 

A graduate of Syracuse University, Linda is a member of the White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association.