Karen T. Borchers
{{Short description|American photojournalist}}
Karen T. Borchers (born 1957) is an American photojournalist, for the San Jose Mercury News since 1982. She retired from the Mercury News in July 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/author/kborchers/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914070347/http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/author/kborchers/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2007-09-14 |title=Karen T. Borchers |publisher=Mercury News Photo |accessdate=2012-08-05 }}
Borchers graduated from Bowling Green State University with a BS in Photojournalism, and from Ohio University with an MA Degree in Visual Communications.{{cite web |url=http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/photographer-galleries/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914070315/http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/photographer-galleries/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2007-09-14 |title=Photographers |publisher=Mercury News Photo |accessdate=2012-08-05 }}
She worked at the West Palm Beach Post and the Dayton Journal Herald.
Her work appeared in Harper's,{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/1996/11 |title=Harper's Magazine: November 1996 |publisher=Harpers.org |date= |accessdate=2012-08-05}} and McClatchy Newspapers.http://archive.easternecho.com/category/byline/karen-t-borchers-mcclatchy-newspapers{{dead link|date=August 2012}}
Awards
Numerous photojournalism Awards from 1980 to the present.....In 1984 she was Runner Up for the National Press Photographer's Association "World Understanding" Award in the national yearly contest.
She shared a Pulitzer Prize in General News, in 1990, with the SJ Mercury News staff, for coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
- 1999 Spot News Photo 1st, Peninsula Press Club {{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_April_26/ai_54463195/ |title=UPHOLD LIFTED/87 Media Awards Presented by Peninsula Press Club | Business Wire | Find Articles |website=findarticles.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716162936/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_April_26/ai_54463195/ |archive-date=16 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}
- 2000 Newspaper Sports Action Photography Honorable, San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association {{cite web |url=http://www.sfbappa.org/SFBAPPA27.html |title=SFBAPPA 26th Annual Awards |publisher=Sfbappa.org |accessdate=2012-08-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112449/http://www.sfbappa.org/SFBAPPA27.html |archivedate=2012-03-26 }}
- 2008 General News Photography 2nd, Peninsula Press Club {{cite web |url=http://www.sfbappa.org/awards.htm |title=TV and newspaper photography contest winners |publisher=Sfbappa.org |accessdate=2012-08-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112456/http://www.sfbappa.org/awards.htm |archivedate=2012-03-26 }}
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