The Power of Spot News

First, look at this year's pulitzer winners for spot news photography

Go here: http://www.pulitzer.org/
Do this: Click on "2006" at the top, click on "BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY" and Click on "Works" Look through ALL of the photos. Choose the one that you think best captures an intense, newsworthy moment. Save it, upload it to flickr, and post it to your blog.

Second, learn about some of the most powerful pulitzer shots.
Go here: http://www.newseum.org/pulitzer/
Do this: Look through the photos, and read the bios of photographers that you think you might be interested in. You will be doing a mini report / blog post on one pulitzer winning photographer. POST the name of the photographer you will be writing a report on.