Three WKU Graduates Share In
Denver Paper's Pulitzer Prize

April 09, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - Three Western Kentucky University photojournalism graduates shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded this week to the Rocky Mountain News.

The Denver newspaper received a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for News Photography for coverage of the Colorado wild fires last summer.

WKU graduates Barry Gutierrez (December 2002), Mark Osler (May 1993) and Marc Piscotty (December 1993) were among the 20 staff members of the Rocky Mountain News who were part of the paper's Pulitzer entry.

The photo staff's fire coverage already had won two other prestigious contests, the Pictures of the Year International competition and the National Headliner Awards.

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