0.1 cubic feet (1 folder), 1 DVD, 5.98 GB of digital files
The papers of a photographer, photo editor and managing editor from southeast Missouri. From 1984 -1990, Sally Stapleton worked as a photo editor with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Miami Herald and Boston Globe. From 1990 to 2004, Stapleton worked first as the senior photo editor for Latin America and later as the deputy executive photo editor at The Associated Press. There she led two staff teams working in Africa to Pulitzer Prizes in Photography. From 2017 -2019, she was the managing editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Post-Gazette staff was awarded the 2019 Breaking News Reporting Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. The papers contain biographical material, photographs, Pulitzer programs, and material on her father, newspaper publisher Jack Stapleton, Jr.
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