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\"Pulitzer<\/a>Even though the bulk of the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes<\/a> announced today were won by large news organizations — the Washington Post took six <\/a>— one of the awards demonstrates that capacity of great work exists even within the smallest<\/strong> of news organizations.<\/p>\n

Photographer Preston Gannaway of the 20,000 circulation Concord (N.H.) Monitor<\/a> on the Pulitzer for Feature Photography with her intimate essay of a family coping with death. Looking at her pictures <\/a>is difficult emotionally, but rewarding in their honest portrayal of something that is real in all of our lives. (Slidshow here<\/a>.)
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In my previous blog<\/a> about newspaper journalism, I once wrote about the power of one<\/a>, the capacity of any journalist, writer or photographer, to strive for excellence<\/strong>. Gannaway proves the point.<\/p>\n

* Also:<\/strong> The Pulitzer for Spot News was won by Adrees Latif <\/a>of Reuters this picture<\/a> of a wounded Japanese photographer being held at gunpoint during the riots last year in Burma. The photographer later died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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