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  • Mona Reeder: The Bottom Line « Prison Photography

    Mona Reeder: The Bottom Line

    “The statistics are embarrassing to the state [of Texas]” Mona Reeder, Poynter Online, May. 20, 2008 Damon Winter recommended the work of Mona Reeder, a former colleague of his at The D…

    via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/mona-reeder-the-bottom-line/

    Reeder won the ‘Investigative Issue Picture Story’ at the 2008 Best of Photojournalism Awards for The Bottom Line. Through pictures, Reeder explored Texas’ poor rankings in a number of categories including health care, executions, mental health statistics, juvenile incarceration, voter apathy, poverty and environmental protection.

  • PDNPulse: Perpignan Awards: Getty Grants, Visa d'or Daily Press

    Mona Reeder of the The Dallas Morning News has won the Visa d’or International Daily Press Award.

    Check it out here.

  • Looking at 'The Bottom Line': Lessons from a Photo Essay

    Mona Reeder, a photographer with the Dallas Morning News, has won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for domestic photography for her photo essay “The Bottom Line.” Through pictures, Reeder explored Texas’ poor rankings in a number of categories ranging from the poorest counties in the U.S. to environmental protection.

    Earlier this year, the project won the Community Service Photojournalism Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. It also was a Pulitzer finalist.

    Kenny Irby interviewed Reeder about the project for “Best Newspaper Writing 2008-2009.” In this excerpt, Reeder discusses the value of in-depth photo essays and how she developed this one.

    Check it out here.

  • Lessons from a Photo Essay

    Mona Reeder, a photographer with the Dallas Morning News, has won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for domestic photography for her photo essay “The Bottom Line.” Through pictures, Reeder explored Texas’ poor rankings in a number of categories ranging from the poorest counties in the U.S. to environmental protection.

    Earlier this year, the project won the Community Service Photojournalism Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. (It also was a Pulitzer finalist.)

    Kenny Irby interviewed Reeder about the project for Best Newspaper Writing 2008-2009. In this excerpt, Reeder discusses the value of in-depth photo essays and how she developed this one.

    Check it out here.