Getty Grants for Editorial Photography are for photojournalists telling compelling social, political and cultural stories. They are awarded on the recognition that creating and managing world-class photography requires time, freedom, support and considerable resources.

Since 2005, they have awarded five Grants for Editorial Photography annually to professional photojournalists.

The annual World Press Photo contest offers an overview of how press photographers tackle their work worldwide and how the press gives us the news, bringing together pictures from all parts of the globe to reflect trends and developments in photojournalism.

The 2008 Canon Female Photojournalist Award was won by the US photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally to pursue her report project 'Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City' which will document the harsh realities of families living down and out in the US.

The award is sponsored by Canon France and is presented by the French Association of Female Journalists (AFJ) and also supported by Le Figaro magazine.

Commenting on her award 2008 Canon AFJ jury member Marc Simon said: "The jury choice rewards the perseverance of a photographer on a delicate subject, that asks for long hours of waiting and of listening. It’s a report that can appear less prestigious than certain reports on hot places of the planet, but is not any less essential. Photographers rarely go unharmed by this type of report. This is a personal engagement that asks a lot."

The prize was presented on 6 September 2008 at the 20th Visa pour l'Image international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France.

The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program for journalists was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963.

One-year and six-month grants are awarded to working print journalists and photographers.

Fellows pursue independent projects of significant interest and write/illustrate articles based on their investigations for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine of the foundation, available at www.aliciapatterson.org.

Previously known as the "Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition" and "News Pictures of the Year Competition and Exhibition", POY was founded in 1944 at the University of Missouri by photojournalism professor Clifton C. Edom and his wife Vi, with a published compilation and traveling exhibit of winning photographs. The following year, the Edoms also established the College Photographer of the Year, which eventually became its own contest.

In 1957, the competition merged with one hosted by the National Press Photographers Association. Succeeding directors, such as Angus McDougall and Bill Kuykendall, have guided the contest; and in 2001, the Pictures of the Year became international and known as POYi.

The NPPA/Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant enables a working photojournalist to take a three month leave of absence to pursue a documentary project illuminating "The Changing Face of America".

Applicants are encouraged to propose a project that, for example, will record the new trends in this country or document vanishing Americana. Applicants are not limited to these two suggestions.

A committee formed and administered by the National Press Photographers Association will select the proposal that best illuminates the theme.