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Cheryl diaz meyer
Meyer was born and raised in the Philippines and immigrated with her family to Minnesota, USA in 1981. As a photojournalist, she was assigned to cover the US-led war in Iraq.
Diaz Meyer worked as a senior staff photographer for 10 years at The Dallas Morning News in Texas and for five years at the Star Tribune in Minnesota. She lectures widely, including at the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Smithsonian Institution, and she has been a guest speaker at the Danish Union of Press Photographers, the Poynter Institute, the National Press Photographers Association and at numerous journalism events.
She was honored in 2004 with a special invitation to meet President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in German from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and with a Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism from Western Kentucky University where she has returned on several occasions to teach at the Mountain Peoples Workshop.
The Dallas Morning News published a report on the recognition of the photojournalism work of Meyer
Meyer won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography w/ fellow photographer David Leeson.
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- Awarded the Visa D'or Daily Press Award 2003 in Perpignan, France.
