“The seminal moment for him occurred earlier this year after he shot a photograph of a girl with tears in her eyes at a candlelight vigil in west Dayton. The photo, he was told, was too emotional.

“The new prerogative, as it was explained to me, was to dumb down the photo report, to pull back and show crowd photographs,” Price said.

At that point, Price said he realized there was a mandate to stop producing sophisticated visual content.

And, for a photojournalist who won a Pulitzer first for his coverage of the 1980 coup in Liberia and then for a body of work documenting civil wars in Angola and El Salvador, “that was the turning point.”

Pulitzer-winning photojournalist resigns rather than lay off staff | Poynter.

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