Background
John Filo was born in 1948 in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, United States.
John Filo was born in 1948 in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, United States.
Filo earned a BS from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, in photo illustration in 1971.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize while working for the Valley Daily News (a Gannett paper) of the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, he continued his career in photojournalism, rapidly finding work at the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and as a picture editor at the Baltimore Evening Sun. He eventually rose to a picture editing job at the weekly news magazine Newsweek. He now is on staff in the communications department of CBS.