Nabs Pulitzer in comeback

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By: Joe Strupp Dallas Morning News editors who sent photographer David Leeson to cover the Iraq war last year might not have been surprised if he turned out to be a little rusty. After all, he hadn't shot stills for the paper in two and a half years when the combat assignment came through. But any concerns that he had lost his touch soon disappeared as Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer chronicled the war with stunning photos that won them the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news last month.

A staff photographer since 1984, the 46-year-old Leeson spent his time between September 2000 and March 2003 working on film and video assignments for Belo Corp., which owns the Morning News and 19 television stations. He also had a hand in seven documentaries. "It doesn't matter to me in what medium I am working," said Leeson, who was not surprised that he was tapped for battlefield duty following the long layoff. "There is very little difference based on what camera is in front of my eye ... I have long stopped thinking of myself as a photographer," Leeson says. "I am a journalist."

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