http://www.marconews.com/staff/michel-fortier/<p><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=569978984&ref=name">■ Friend me on Facebook</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href=" http://www.linkedin.com/in/michelfortier">■ Friend me on Facebook</a></strong></p> Michel Fortier is a fifteen-year veteran of the Naples Daily News and is a graduate of the Western Kentucky University School of Journalism where he won numerous awards. Those awards include the Alexia Tsairis Foundation Scholarship, numerous category wins in the College Photographer of the Year competition and first place in the Hearst Photojournalism Competition, considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate photojournalism. He also studied abroad at Ho Chi Minh City University in Vietnam where he studied Vietnamese language and culture and worked on documentary projects in his free time. During his newspaper career, Michel has also worked for The Dallas Morning News, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the New York Daily News before becoming a staff photographer at the Naples Daily News in 1998. After becoming the Director of Visuals, he's helped lead the photo department to a Pulitzer prize finalist in 2011 and has won numerous editing awards on a national level including Best of Photojournalism 2013 first place in Best Use of Photos for newspaper picture editing. -1st Place-Best Use of Photos Newspaper Editing NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2013 -2nd Place-Multi-page documentary for Editing, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2013 -2nd Place-Best Use of Photos, Newspaper Editing in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2012 -3rd Place-Best Use of Photos, Newspaper Editing in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2011 -Honorable Mention, Recurring Series, Editing in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2011 -Honorable Mention, Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year Team, 2011 -1st Place, Multi Page documentary for Editing, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2011 en-ushttp://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464371/Michel Fortier/Staff FGCU president Wilson Bradshaw sings along with the Eagles fight song in the fiTue, 18 Jun 2013 22:55:11 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464371/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/17/464188/Deborah Price, mother of two students in fifth grade, speaks out against changing the start times whMon, 17 Jun 2013 20:50:35 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/17/464188/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/17/464187/Scanned 12/16/02 Published: 12/17/2002 Page: A01 Estero Incorporation photo by Michel Fortier/staff Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:50:32 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/17/464187/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/14/463355/In this file photo Chris Moriconi, right, spins his daughter Macy Moriconi, 9, in the waters off of Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:05:27 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/14/463355/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462107/A lone worker surveys a vast roof looking for damaged tiles Tuesday, the day after Hurricane Wilma sFri, 07 Jun 2013 15:35:52 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462107/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462106/10/24/05-Five months pregnant, Maria Dolores Barra, center is consolded by friends Sara Blanco, leftFri, 07 Jun 2013 15:35:50 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462106/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462105/It was clear to Bonita Springs resident Richard Morse that Docs Beach House wasnt taking any chancesFri, 07 Jun 2013 15:35:47 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462105/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462104/Walking to the edge of the flood water, Maqaureen Purcell, 75, breaks down after seeing the devastatFri, 07 Jun 2013 15:35:44 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/07/462104/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/24/459592/Canton, Ohio residents Mike Hutcheson and his son, Owen Hucheson, 5, play paddle ball on the beach wFri, 24 May 2013 17:50:26 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/24/459592/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/23/459372/Ben and Marie of Thibobeau make their way into the special needs shelter at Palmetto Ridge High SchoThu, 23 May 2013 20:05:17 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/23/459372/