Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson, a photojournalist for The Dallas Morning News, will give a talk and slide presentation of photos taken of the war in Iraq on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 9:30 a.m., in the Visual Arts & Technologies Center, Room 120 (Dewey and Lewis Streets). This will be the 27th Annual Edith Fox King Journalism Lecture and is free and open to the public.

Leeson shared with Cheryl Diaz Meyer the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. A senior staff photographer with The Dallas Morning News since 1984, Leeson covered the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist attached to the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade combat Team, Task Force 2-69 Armored out of Fort Benning, Georgia. He was with the troops for six weeks and saw 23 days of sustained enemy contact in frontline action.

His still and video work from Iraq has received global recognition through the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, and MSNBC, ABC and CSPAN. His video was featured on ABC's "World News Tonight."

Leeson was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1985 for his photo coverage of apartheid in South Africa. In 1986, he was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Problems of the Disadvantages for his story on Dallas homeless. He was among the first journalists to photograph Kuwait City after the Iraqi withdrawal during the Gulf War in 1991. In 1994, he covered the civil war in Angola, earning him a second Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer for covering a family evacuating floodwaters in southwest Texas.

The campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Department of Journalism-Photography, and Internationalizing the Curriculum are sponsors of this event. For more information, contact Chet Hunt at 733-2870.