Dai Sugano
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. This year, Sugano has won a series of national journalism awards for his video, "The Left Behind," produced for the San Jose Mercury News website. This video was a part of an entry that won an EPpy for "Best Use of Video in a Media-Affiliated Web Site." The EPpys are sponsored by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek magazines. "The Left Behind" won awards in Best of the West, and Best of Photojournalism sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association. In 2008, "Uprooted," which looks at the 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 works have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography; and have received international and national recognitions. Sugano covers a wide range of assignments which have included: Hmong refugees' immigration to the United States; the California Recall; Japanese Internment camp survivors and numerous political stories. He is a regular contributor for multimedia production company STORY4. Every year Sugano travels nationally for speaking engagements and workshops for journalism organizations.