<![CDATA[ <body> <h1>SnyderSportsPix</h1> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr> <td align="left" class="links"><a href="/index.html"><span class="links"><a href="/index.html" target="_top"><font color="#999999">Home</font></a></span> <span class="links"> <a href="/portfolio.html" target="_top"><font color="#999999">Galleries</font></a> </span> <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=2" target="_top"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>William Snyder Bio</b></font></a></span> <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=4" target="_top"><font color="#999999">Download Order Forms</font></a></span> <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=5" target="_top"><font color="#999999">Frequently Asked Questions</font></a></span> <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=6" target="_top"><font color="#999999">Legal Stuff</font></a></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>William Snyder Bio | SnyderSportsPix</h1></span><br> <div> William Snyder, a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has traveled many miles and covered a myriad of assignments.<br /> <br /> He began shooting sports photographs for The Gleaner in his hometown of Henderson, KY at the age of 14 and rode his bicycle to assignments or hitched a ride with his mother.<br /> <br /> He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with highest honors and a BS in photography and finished fourth in The College Photographer of the Year.<br /> <br /> Snyder began working for The Miami News in 1981 where he covered many of the city’s major news stories – riots, Miami Dolphins in the Super Bowl, Haitian boat people, and space shuttle launches.<br /> <br /> In 1983 Snyder moved to The Dallas Morning News. In the 15 years he was a photographer at The News, he covered hundreds of professional and amateur sporting events, including the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers, Southwest Conference basketball and football, Summer Olympics in Barcelona and Atlanta, Winter Olympics in Calgary, Albertville and Nagano, two NCAA Final Fours, two Super Bowls, and an NBA Championship.<br /> <br /> Some of his news and feature assignments include: The first democratic elections in Haiti and Romania, the explosion of the Shuttle Challenger, the ’91 coup attempt in the Soviet Union, the re-unification of Germany, healthcare in the US federal prison system, hunger in Dallas, MLK streets across the US, AIDS orphans in Romania, AIDS in Uganda and Thailand, illegal immigration in Russia and the Czech Republic, cotton farmers in Nicaragua, seal hunting in Newfoundland, two Republican Conventions and the re-emergence of religion across Russia while traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railroad,<br /> <br /> He has won four Pulitzer Prizes.<br /> <ul> <li>In 1989 Snyder and two colleagues were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for their special section detailing how the National Transportation Safety Board conducts an investigation.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In 1991 Snyder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for photographs depicting the inhumane treatment of orphans in Romania’s “home for the irrecoverables.”<br /> </li> </ul> <ul> <li>In 1993 Snyder and a fellow photographer were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for their work at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In 2006, as Director of Photography, Snyder guided The Dallas Morning News' staff to the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina.<br /> </li> </ul> He has also won numerous awards from The National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press Managing Editors, Society of Newspaper Design, Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, Dallas Press Club, The Texas Headliners, Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the Olympic Photo Committee.<br /> <br /> His freelance clients include Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Computer Reseller, Allstate Insurance Co., New York Times Sunday Magazine, Pinnacle Sports Cards, USA Today, Visual Media, Inc., dozens of newspapers across the United States and the rock group The Who.<div> </body> ]]>