John Kaplan, one of only three photographers to win both a Pulitzer Prize and the title National Newspaper Photographer of the Year, has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Journalism.

Kaplan is a free-lance photographer and writer and the founder and director of Media Alliance, a journalism consulting organization which gathers experts in content-oriented journalism.

He was named the National Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1989 while working at the Pittsburgh Press. Kaplan received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged the same year.

As a newspaper group consultant and staff photographer for two years, Kaplan produced a special project on the diverse lifestyles of 21-year-olds across America for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1992.

Twice named a photography juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, Kaplan is a Knight Fellow at Ohio University in Athens, where he is finishing his master's degree in journalism.