Pulitzer honoree is latest to win after leaving journalism
April 22, 2018
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ryan Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize this week for his photo of a car plowing into protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia - an image he snapped on the final day of his newspaper job before leaving to work at a brewery.
The photographer has joined a growing list of journalists who have won the profession's highest honor on their way out the door of a once-thriving newspaper industry now destabilized and seriously weakened by the internet.
Kelly, 31, said he was burned out and looking for a better quality of life.
"Bad hours, bad pay, high stress, lo...
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