Justin Merriman is an American photojournalist. He is a staff photographer at the ''

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Although it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, it rem ...

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. In 2014 he won an "award of excellence" in the Pictures of the Year International awards of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute for his coverage of unrest in

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, and in 2016 he took a 'distinguished visual' award in the Keystone Awards of the

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association is a trade group serving newspapers in Pennsylvania. The PNA seeks to "advance the business interests of Pennsylvania news media companies" and protect the "free and independent press." It represents Pennsylva ...

. In 2018 he was one of twenty-seven recipients of an honourable mention in the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.

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