Ted Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who has spent nearly 34 years with New Orleans's The Times-Picayune. In 1996, he was part of a four-member team that produced Oceans of Trouble, which was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize in the Times-Picayune's history. In 2003, he photographed "LEAP Year," a local story about high-stakes school testing. The photographs received recognition from the Robert Kennedy Journalism Awards and won the 2003 American Society of Newspaper Editors Staff Award for Community Service Photojournalism.
Through the years, he has covered the physical destruction and emotional trauma of earthquakes and hurricanes, most notably, Hurricane Katrina. For their coverage, The Times-Picayune staff won a Pulitzer Prize for public service and another for breaking news.
His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and books around the world including The New York Times, The Washington Post,
