Post-Dispatch’s Ferguson Coverage Wins Pulitzer in Breaking News Photography – NYTimes.com

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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.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/post-dispatchs-ferguson-coverage-wins-pulitzer-in-breaking-news-photography/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

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