NESPA Photojournalist Tells of Painful Journey
NEW ENGLAND NESPA SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION Headquarters, Boston University College of Communication 640 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Volume 19, NewsNo. 3, Summer, 2014 Photojournalist tells of painful journey ohn Tlumacki said his work covering the Mara- thon was part of his mission as a photojournalist. He was 50 feet from where the first of two bombsJ went off near the finish line last spring. “Within three seconds of the first bomb I ran for- ward,” he said. “Everything you learn in your career—in high school, in college, from your parents—you store it, and when it happens, you run forward.” A member of the Boston Globe team that won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting, Tlumacki is the National Press Photographers Associ- ation 2014 photojournalist of the year. His Marathon photos appeared around the world. Introducing Tlumacki Friday, May 2 in Morse Au- ditorium as this year’s keynote speaker for the New England Scholastic Press Association conference, William McKeen, journalism department chair at the Kristine Hopkins/The High School View College of Communication, called him “one of the best John Tlumacki describes reaching out to individuals recovering photojournalists on the earth.” from their injuries in last year's Marathon bombing. Tlumacki said his roots are in high school journal- ism, having been a yearbook photographer at Bishop about 200 photos of the bombing. Other photographers Fenwick High School in Peabody. After beginning as weren’t allowed at the finish line. They were locked an advertising major at the College of Communication, down in the Copley Hotel.” he changed his emphasis to journalism and graduated During the year since the bombing Tlumacki said, in 1978.
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