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Vivian Counts, widow of Will Counts, presented the Will Counts Photojournalism Award to James Brosher, BAJ '10, at the Indiana APME ceremony Saturday.

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Recent graduate James T. Brosher won yet another award this year when the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors presented him with the Will Counts Photojournalism Award for the top young photojournalist Saturday in Indianapolis.

Brosher, BAJ ’10, submitted a portfolio earlier this year, competing with other college students as well as full-time professional news photographers with fewer than five years of fulltime work experience.

The late Will Counts was known for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographs of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation in 1957. After a career shooting for Associated Press, Counts came to the IU School of Journalism, where he taught for 32 years.

Earlier this year, Brosher won the National Press Photographers Association monthly contest award for his multimedia project on Sharlee Davis, a Bloomington musician who has learned to accommodate 20 years of progressing blindness.

Before that, the Indiana News Photographers Association named Brosher the 2009 College Photographer of the Year. He’s also won numerous awards and accolades for photography at the Indiana Daily Student and other publications, and the NPPA award is for work that appeared in the (Bloomington) Herald-Times, where Brosher was an intern this spring. He also interned at the (South Bend) Tribune.

Brosher will work as an intern at the Austin American-Statesman this summer.