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Late March and early April mark the start of awards season in TV news.

For me, they mark the start of grabbing my popcorn and watching TV news award-winners.

I love watching and learning from the best in my business. Last week I published my annual “5 lessons learned” piece from the first-place stories in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Video Awards.

This week, I interviewed one of the big winners for Episode #60 of the Telling the Story podcast.

Ryan Oliveira is a photojournalist at KXAS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Dallas/Ft. Worth which last year captured four National Edward R. Murrow awards and this week was named a Peabody Awards finalist. The station knows storytelling. This year, amidst a tremendously talented team of journalists, Oliveira stood out.

He did so with sensitivity.

This piece, covering the church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Tex., shows the power of staying back and letting people express their emotions. Oliveira and reporter Noelle Walker took their time and succeeded in covering a massive story by acing the fundamentals of storytelling: perfect shot composition, a tender script with themes both specific and universal, and thoughtful, intentional editing.

For this effort, Oliveira won the award for General Hard News photography. He also won for Spot News Photography. And he captured the crown as the NPPA’s 2017 Central Top Photographer of the Year.

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Matt Pearl is the author of the Telling the Story blog and podcast. Feel free to comment below or e-mail Matt at matt@tellingthestoryblog.com. You can also follow Matt on Facebook and Twitter.