The Pulitzer Prize: A Q&A with a judge

Richard Murphy: No, I don’t think we felt any obligation to give special consideration to photographs from any particular event. We certainly expected to see work from the major news events of the year, but we did not give them any extra weight. I would note that the breaking news winner in 2010 was a single image from a single photographer working in middle America documenting the rescue of a single person during a single isolated incident. In terms of world news it was a tiny event. That being said, a disaster of biblical proportions certainly offers more opportunity for dramatic photographs.

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