NPPA 47th Flying Short Course
Cheryl Diaz Meyer
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Pulitzer Prize winner Cheryl Diaz Meyer is a senior staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News who covered the U.S.-led war in Iraq for one month as an embedded journalist attached to the Second Tank Battalion of the First Marine Division, and unilaterally for another month shedocumented the aftermath of the war in Baghdad. She returned to Iraq later in the year to photograph the country during the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Ms. Diaz Meyer won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography with fellow staff photographer David Leeson for their body of work depicting the invasion and aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Her work was awarded the Visa D’Or Daily Press Award 2003 in Perpignan, France. Aside from being published in major metropolitan newspapers and magazines and aired on television stations aroundthe world, her work was also featured in books by Corbis and Life-- entitled Desert Diaries and The War in Iraq.
Ms. Diaz Meyer was born and raised in the Philippines and immigrated with her family to Minnesota in 1981. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from the University of Minnesota - Duluth in 1990. She received a second Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994 from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism.