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Pulitzer
Prize Winner to Speak at SAC's 28th Annual Edith Fox
King Journalism Lecture
October
25, 2005
CONTACT: Chet Hunt, Chairman of the Journalism and
Photography Department, San Antonio College
(210) 733-2870
Ted
Jackson, a photojournalist at The New Orleans Times-Picayune,
will discuss his work at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 8 in Room
120 of the visual arts center.
The
28th annual Edith Fox King Journalism Lecture, sponsored
by the student chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists and the department of journalism-photography,
is part of International Education Week.
The
public is invited to attend the free lecture, but
seating is limited.
Jackson
photographed a comprehensive look at the collapse
of the world's fisheries called "Oceans of Trouble."
The series won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public
Service.
Jackson and the staff of the Times-Picayune posted
stories and photographs about Hurricane Katrina and
its aftermath on the Internet while locked out of
the newspaper’s flooded headquarters.
Jackson
has photographed projects ranging from swamp dwelling
Cajuns to Pope John Paul II touring the United States.
While
covering New Orleans daily news and sports, he photographed
"Desire, Death of a Dream," an essay on
life in the Desire housing development, one of the
country's worst.
He
also produced an extended photo essay on a successful
crack cocaine rehabilitation facility and several
stories on the city's homeless population.
Geopolitical stories have included the demolition
of the Berlin Wall, war in the Persian Gulf, several
pieces on life in Cuba and upheaval in Haiti.
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