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William Snyder is an American photojournalist and former Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989 along with reporter David Hanners and artist Karen Blessen for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety. In 1991, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his pictures of ill and orphaned children living in desperate conditions in Romania. In 1993, Snyder and Ken Geiger won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for their photographic coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. As Photo Director he oversaw the Morning News photo staff's 2006 Pulitzer-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In the Spring of 2008, Snyder took the buyout at The Dallas Morning News and returned to his alma mater, the Rochester Institute of Technology. He initially served as the chair in the Photojournalism BFA program. However, he later transitioned to become the Undergraduate Program Director for Advertising Photography.

References

1. UM School of Communication Calendar
2. "William Snyder". RIT. Retrieved 2023-08-04.

http://www.williamsnyderphotography.com/

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• Snyder Named Director of Photography

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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism from 1985–1997
1985–2000	Jon Franklin (1985) Staff of The New York Times (1986) Jeff Lyon & Peter Gorne (1987) Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart (1988) David Hanners, William Snyder & Karen Blessen (1989) David A. Vise & Steve Coll (1990) Susan C. Faludi (1991) Robert S. Capers & Eric Lipton (1992) Mike Toner (1993) Ronald Kotulak (1994) Leon Dash & Lucian Perkins (1995) Laurie Garrett (1996) Michael Vitez, April Saul & Ron Cortes (1997) Paul Salopek (1998) Richard Read (1999)
2000–2025	Eric Newhouse (2000) Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001) Staff of The New York Times (2002) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003) Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004) Gareth Cook (2005) David Finkel (2006) Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007) Amy Harmon (2008) Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009) Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010) Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011) David Kocieniewski (2012) Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013) Eli Saslow (2014) Zachary R. Mider  (2015) T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016) International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy & Miami Herald  (2017) Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018) David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019) Staff of The Washington Post (2020) Ed Yong (2021) Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021) Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022) Caitlin Dickerson (2023)

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