Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world's best two years in a row in the Pictures of the Year International contest.  Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees' immigration to the United States; the California Recall;  Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. 

In 2008, "Uprooted," which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won a national Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries.  His other work have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and have received awards from EPpy, Best of the West, NPPA and other international and national photojournalism organizations.  Every year Sugano travels nationally for speaking engagements and workshops for journalism organizations. 

Photo District News (PDN) August 2007 issue:  Titled: Multimedia Revolution 

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003616901

Photo District News (PDN) August 2007 issue:  Titled: Picture Story: On Assignment 

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003616891

SPEAKER / LECTURE

Western Kentucky University

Guest Speaker: Sixth annual Gaines Lecture Series.  April 2010. Bowling Green, KY

San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association

Lecture:  2009 SFBAPPA Digital Media Workshop. Dec 2009 San Jose, CA.

GeekFest photo festival

Guest Speaker: Sept. 2009 St. Petersburg, Fl.

San Jose State University

Convocation Speaker: Graduate ceremony for The School of Journalism and Mass Communication.  May 21, 2009.  San Jose, CA

San Jose State University

Guest Speaker: Visual Day. May 2009. San Jose, CA

IPPA/WNPA (Illinois/Wisconsin press photographer association)

Guest Speaker: Annual Press Photographers’ convention. April 2009. Madison, WI

Stanford University

Lecture: Multimedia workshop.  Jan - March, 2009. Stanford, CA

ASMP Multimedia Special Interest Group

Guest Speaker: 2008.   Oct. 2008, San Francisco, CA

UNITY 08 Journalism Convention

Lecture: Multimedia Storytelling Workshop. July 2008, Chicago, IL

Nebraska News Photographers Association

Guest Speaker:  2008 John Savage Seminar. April 2008, Omaha, NE

Brooks Institute of Photography

Guest Speaker:  Brooks Institute of Photography National Press Photographers Association student chapter. Jan 2008, Ventura, CA

Asian American Journalist Association

Lecture / Guest Speaker:  2007 Asian American Journalist Association Convention.  Aug 2007 Miami, MI.

National Association of Black Journalists

Lecture / Guest Speaker:  2007 National Association of Black Journalists Convention. Aug 2007 Las Vegas, NV.

Asian American Journalist Association

Lecture / Guest Speaker:  2006 Asian American Journalist Association Convention.  June 2006 Honolulu, Hawaii.

San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association

Lecture / Guest Speaker:  2006 SFBAPPA Digital Media Workshop. Dec 2006 San Francisco, CA.

San Francisco Exposure Gallery

Guest Speaker:  San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association Photo Night. Oct 2006, San Francisco, CA.

San Jose State University

Guest Speaker:  San Jose State University National Press Photographers Association student chapter.  April 2006, San Jose, CA.

San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association

Lecture / Guest Speaker:  2005 SFBAPPA Digital Media Workshop. Dec 2005 San Francisco, CA.

National Press Photographers Association

Lecture / Guest Speaker:  2005 Annual Flying Short Course. October 2005 Eugene, OR.

Brooks Institute of Photography

Guest Speaker:  Brooks Institute of Photography National Press Photographers Association student chapter. Jan 2004, Ventura, CA

CONTACT:

Dai Sugano

daisugano@gmail.com

San Francisco, San Jose, Bay Area.

MSNBC.com / TODAY / AOL   2009

Featured short ”LEFT BEHIND”: Front page and world page at MSNBC.com / TODAY / AOL

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2008/leftbehind/

DAYS JAPAN / “LEFT BEHIND” June 2009 issue:

Featured article ”LEFT BEHIND”: Photo Essay about poverty in India

AWARDS

2011 National Emmy Award- nominated for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentary

                                                                                                             TORN APART:  http://www.mercurynews.com/torn-apart

2008 National Emmy Award- winner - New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentary

                                                                                              UPROOTED:  http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/flicks/

2008 National Emmy Award- nominated for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Regional News Coverage

                                                                                              INTO THE 25TH HOUR:  http://www.daisugano.com/Into_the_25th_Hour.html

2011 PDN Photo Annual - winner - Video category for ‘TORN APART’

2004 The Pulitzer Prize - Finalist, Feature Photography for the coverage of the 2003 California recall.  (Team Entry)

2009 EPpy Award - Winner: Best Use of Video (Team Entry)

2009 Best of the West - First place Video Storytelling/Third place Video Storytelling for “LEFT BEHIND” and “The Chance to Break Free”

2009 DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Contest- Public Prize for “LEFT BEHIND”

2011 National Press Photographers Association - Third place Documentary Video ‘TORN APART’

2009 National Press Photographers Association - First place Documentary Video “LEFT BEHIND”

2008 National Press Photographers Association - Second place In-Depth Web “Uprooted”

2007 National Press Photographers Association - First place Best Use of the Web 2007 (Team Entry)

2006 National Press Photographers Association - Third place Best News Picture Story (Smaller Affiliated Sites) (Team Entry)

2006 National Press Photographers Association - First place Best Sports Picture Story (Smaller Affiliated Sites) (Team Entry)

2004 National Press Photographers Association - First place General News

2004 National Press Photographers Association - Third place Domestic News Picture Story

The 65th Annual Picture of the Year International - Third place Multimedia Division, Best News Story

The 64th Annual Picture of the Year International - Second place Best Use Interactive Publication/Major Media (Team Entry)

The 63th Annual Picture of the Year International - Third place  Editing Division / Interactive Publication/Major Media (Team Entry)

The 59th Annual Picture of the Year International - Gold Medal, College Photographer of the Year 2001 (CPOY)