Photojournalist, editor Bill Snead, 78 | NPPA

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Photojournalist, editor Bill Snead, 78

Legendary photojournalist and newspaper editor Bill Snead, 78, died Sunday in his hometown of Lawrence, KS, where he started his career as a photography assistant at the Lawrence Journal-World while he was still a 17-year-old high school student.

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/photojournalist-editor-bill-snead-78

After a career with UPI, National Geographic, and The Washington Post, Snead returned to Lawrence in 1993 to be the deputy editor of the Journal-World. He rose to be the paper’s senior editor before leaving in 2007. He first joined NPPA in 1956.