Post-Dispatch’s Ferguson Coverage Wins Pulitzer in Breaking News Photography
The photography staff of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for its coverage of the aftermath of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.
Like most newspapers in the United States, the Post Dispatch — which was founded by Joseph Pulitzer — has suffered budget cuts and staff reductions over the last 20 years. The photography department, which once numbered 20 to 30 staff members in the 1990s, now has fewer than a dozen