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The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
William C. Gaines was an American journalist and professor of journalism. Gaines was a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He retired from the paper in 2001 and taught in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until his retirement and designation as an emeritus faculty member in 2007. He died July 20, 2016, at the age of 82.
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Louis Martin Kohlmeier Jr. was an American author, journalist, and educator. He wrote for The Wall Street Journal and later for the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate; still later, he taught at American University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1965.
E. Jason Wambsgans is a photojournalist working for the Chicago Tribune. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize in Feature Photography for his portrait of gun violence in Chicago.
William Mullen was a reporter and correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, which he joined in 1967 and retired from in 2012. In 1972, he worked undercover in the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, uncovering massive evidence of voting irregularities that resulted in 82 election officials being indicted by the federal government. The exposé was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting in 1973. In 1975, Mullen and Chicago Tribune photographer Ovie Carter were awarded the Pulitzer for International Reporting for a six-part series on world hunger and famine.
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- ↑ "The Michigan Alumnus". 1972.
- ↑ "NASW past presidents".
- ↑ "Books by Ronald Kotulak and Complete Book Reviews".
- ↑ https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ronald-kotulak [ bare URL ]
- ↑ "Lost Lives and the Roots of Violence". Chicago Tribune .
- ↑ "Research Unraveling Mysteries of the Brain". Chicago Tribune .
- ↑ "Award Winners | Science Journalism Awards".
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