The NPPA Best Of Photojournalism 2005 Picture Editing Contest winners have been announced. First place winners are:

Newspaper Front Page
The Albuquerque Tribune
Death toll hits 52,000
Mark Holm

Newspaper News Page
Los Angeles Times
Russian Hostage Crisis
Steve Stroud, Calvin Hom

Newspaper News Picture Story
The Palm Beach Post
Jeanne, Not Again
Mark Edelson, Pete Cross, John J. Lopinot, Jennifer Podis, Loren Hosack and staff

Newspaper Feature Page
The Hartford Courant
Olympic Bods
Allison Corbett

Newspaper Feature Story
San Francisco Chronicle
Lion Heart: The journey of Saleh
Kathleen Hennessy

Newspaper Sports Section Front
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cards blast off
Larry Coyne, Chris Stanfield

Newspaper Sports Story
The Hartford Courant
The New Gentleman Boxer
Bruce Moyer

Newspaper Picture Page
The Albuquerque Tribune
Ukraine Election
Mark Holm

Newspaper Picture Story
Los Angeles Times
Five roadblocks to peace
Gail Fisher, Mary Cooney

Newspaper Illustrative Story Single
The Hartford Courant
Allison Corbett

Newspaper Illustrative story
Los Angeles Times
An Embargoed Classicism
Kirk McKoy, Cindy Hively

Newspaper Special Section
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A Time to Live
John Dickson

Newspaper Recurring Feature
Detroit Free Press
Body and Mind
Nancy Andrews

Newspaper Picture Editor
The Palm Beach Post
Mark Edelson, Pete Cross, John Lopinot, Jennifer Podis, Loren Hosack

Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year
The Palm Beach Post
Mark Edelson

View more winners here.

The judging of the Best of Still Photojournalism portion of the competition began today.