Barbara Walsh
Reporter | Portland Press Herald

Barbara A. Walsh is a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter working on special projects for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.

Walsh was one of two principal reporters at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, who worked on a yearlong series about Willie Horton Jr., a convicted killer and furlough escapee whose crimes drew attention to the flawed Massachusetts prison system. The series won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize.

Besides reporting in Massachusetts, Walsh worked at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel for seven years, covering courts and social services. Since she came to Maine in 1996, she has won several national, state and regional awards for her stories on alcohol abuse, teen-agers, rural poverty, the lack of mental health care for Maine children, domestic violence and most recently teen suicide.

Her stories have also prompted hundreds of letters from readers and launched state and federal investigations. Walsh’s articles have also sparked fundraisers for the poor and helped improve mental health care for children.

Walsh is a New Hampshire native and graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in photography and journalism.

David A. Rodgers
Photographer | Portland Press Herald

Rodgers has been a photographer at The Portland Newspapers since 1988. He previously worked for the Rocky Mountain News and the Boston Globe.

Rodgers won third place in the National Press Photographers' Association's international pictures of the year contest this year for his work on the newspapers' Island Odyssey series, which ran in the summer of 1996. Rodgers also has won numerous regional and state photography awards.

This year, the Maine Press Association honored Rodgers with eight awards, including four first-place awards, in the annual Better Newspaper Contest.

Rodgers tied for second place in the NPPA's 1996 New England Photographer of the Year competition.

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