Quick Tip: When Prizes Come with a Downside

Quick Tip: When Prizes Come with a Downside | PDNPulse

Prizes are coveted, but they can come with a downside. Pultizer Prize-winners Deanne Fitzmaurice and William Snyder offer some advice.

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The World Press Photo awards will be announced Thursday, April 12, followed by the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, April 16. Major prizes like those can transform a winner’s career. But the big prizes can also carry liabilities. In 2016, we asked two past Pulitzer winners—Deanne Fitzmaurice and William Snyder—about how their careers changed after they won, and what advice they had for future winners. Fitzmaurice won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography while she was a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle. Snyder won three Pulitzer Prizes while at the Dallas Morning News: the 1989 prize for Explanatory Journalism, which he shared with two colleagues; the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, and the 1993 prize for Spot News, which he shared with photographer Ken Geiger. Here’s some of the perspective and advice they shared: