Members of the Post-Dispatch photography staff accepted the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography during an awards ceremony Thursday in New York.
The prize, , was given to the newspaper’s eight photographers and three editors for a portfolio of 19 images that chronicled protests, violence and numerous lingering social issues touched off by the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer in August.
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Thursday’s awards ceremony was held at Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library.
The journalism award is the since the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917.
Post-Dispatch journalists have been named as finalists seven times since 1989, when the newspaper last won a Pulitzer for publishing a photograph of a fire scene by a freelance photographer.
The Pulitzer Prize board also named as finalists for editorial writing two Post-Dispatch opinion writers, Tony Messenger and Kevin Horrigan.
The prizes are , who founded the ºüÀêÊÓƵ in 1878.
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