Education
Jackson finished high school at McComb"s Parklane Academy in 1974 and proceeded in his education to Southwest Mississippi Community College and University of Southern Mississippi.
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Ted Jackson
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He contributes to the newspaper’s extensive gallery of photographs of events in the Greater New Orleans Area. But in 2005 Jackson became particularly known for his industriousness and innovation in obtaining unique and superb photographs during and after, a natural disaster which has caused Jackson, by virtue of his experience, to be frequently sought not only for his photographs but also for his advice on photography of natural disasters. Many of his photographs appeared in the 2006 Times-Picayune book Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans.
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Jackson finished high school at McComb"s Parklane Academy in 1974 and proceeded in his education to Southwest Mississippi Community College and University of Southern Mississippi. After graduation he worked for 2 years with the Daily Iberian in New Iberia, Louisiana, and then went to work for the Times-Picayune. Having worked for the Times-Picayune since 1984, Jackson was already well established as a photojournalist prior to 2005. Among other accolades, Jackson received the 2003 Community Photojournalism award from the American Society of News Editors (ASNE). After a stint as photojournalistic correspondent during the 1990s United States. intervention into Haiti, Jackson in 1997 shared a Sigma Delta Chi Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his photographic work on Oceans of Trouble, a documentary about threats to the world"s fisheries.
