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Stan Grossfeld (born December 20, 1951) is an associate editor at ''
The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
'' who has won two
Pulitzer Prizes The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...
for photojournalism. He was born in
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and graduated from the
Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional ...
with a B.S. in Professional Photography in 1973. After two years in
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'' he went to work for ''The Boston Globe''. While working there he completed a Master of Journalism at
Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...
in 1980. He became chief photographer at the ''Globe'' in 1983. Next year he won the
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. From 2000 it has used the "breaking news" name but it is considered a continuation of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photogr ...
for a "series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon" ( Lebanese Civil War, third phase). In 1985 he won the Feature Photography Pulitzer for a "series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens on the
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.""Feature Photography"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
Named associate editor of the ''Globe'' in 1987, Grossfeld photographs many subjects, including sports.


References



Accessed 18 November 2006. * Fischer & Fischer, ''Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917–2000'', K.G. Saur, 2000.


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* 1951 births American photojournalists Boston University College of Communication alumni Rochester Institute of Technology alumni The Boston Globe people Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography winners Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners Photography in Lebanon Living people Journalists from New York City {{US-photographer-stub