Ted Jackson
Jackson (born 1956) is an American photojournalist, writer and public speaker who has spent over three decades exploring the human condition while covering news, sports and features for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. He contributes to the newspaper’s extensive gallery of photographs of the Greater New Orleans Area.
Also recorded as Ted M. Jackson
Ted Jackson
- Born
- 1955
- Nationality
- United States
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- photographer · photojournalist · journalist
- Education
- Southwest Mississippi Community College · University of Southern Mississippi · Parklane Academy
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Jackson (born 1956) is an American photojournalist, writer and public speaker who has spent over three decades exploring the human condition while covering news, sports and features for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. He contributes to the newspaper’s extensive gallery of photographs of the Greater New Orleans Area.
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Ted Jackson (born 1955) is a journalist, photographer and photojournalist, of American nationality. The journalist was educated at Parklane Academy, Southwest Mississippi Community College and University of Southern Mississippi.
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Jackson graduated 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 joined TheTimes-Picayune in 1984. Among other awards, Jackson received the 2003 Community Photojournalism award from the American Society of News Editors (ASNE). After a stint as correspondent during the 1990s U.S. 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 the world's troubled fisheries.
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Jackson gained attention for his work during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a natural disaster that presented him with many moral and ethical dilemmas. Many of his photographs appeared in the 2006 Times-Picayune book Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans.
Personal life
Personal life
Jackson's photographic work during and after Katrina and his knowledge of the affected areas were critical to relief workers, including those who came to work with his own (Mandeville, Louisiana) Tammany Oaks Church of Christ with which he served as an elder. Jackson is married to Nancy Jackson, and they have two grown sons—Christopher Jackson and Jeremiah Jackson. Ted and Nancy Jackson live in Covington, Louisiana. Jackson is also the author of You Ought To Do A Story About Me, a biography of former football player Jackie Wallace and his struggle with addiction.
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- 1.Times-Picayune gallery.
- 2.Bio on TedJackson.net (accessed 2010 October 9).
- 3.ASNE site from 2003 February 28 (retrieved 2009 June 13).
- 4.John McQuaid, "Bold new 'chaos theory' says fishery experts way off track" in New Jersey Fishing (Garden State Seafood Association), 1998 February 16 (retrieved 2009 June 13).
- 5.Beverly Spicer, "The Ordeal of Ted Jackson and the New Orleans Times-Picayune" in Digital Journalist, 2005 December (retrieved 2009 June 13).
- 6."Ted Jackson: Our Lives, Ours to Cover" on Poynter.org for 2006 September 01 (retrieved 2009 June 13). See also Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007), passim; , ; and John McQuaid & Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms (New York: Little, Brown, 2006), passim, ,
- 7.Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation. (2006). Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans. New Orleans: Spotlight Press. 192 pages. , .
- 8.Tammany Oaks Church of Christ web site.
- 9.Ted Jackson on Peoplesearch.com.
- 10.Jackson, Ted. You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption. Dey Street Books. August 25, 2020. 0062935674.
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