Kevin P. Coughlin

Kevin P. Coughlin is a New York-based Pulitzer prize sharing photojournalist and picture editor. Since 1985, Coughlin has photographed and edited news events ranging from jetliner crashes to riots, the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Vatican City funeral for Pope John Paul II. He is also a sports photojournalist having photographed: two World Series, the U.S. Open (tennis), the U.S. Open (golf), the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Belmont Stakes, and the NFL and NHL playoffs. His past editorial clients include: New York Daily News, The New York Times, Newsday, Bloomberg News, Business Week, People, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, TIME, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

In 2002, he was honored for his visual contributions to The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize winning series: "A Nation Challenged". His work appears in two Times-published books: "PORTRAITS 9/11/01" and "A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and it’s Aftermath." The New York Times won the 2002 Pulitzer Prizes in the Breaking News Photography, Feature Photography and Public Service categories. Coughlin was a team member for the latter grouping. [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2002/public-service/]

He attended St. John's University in Jamaica, Queens, NY from 1985 to 1989, where he served as a staff photographer and subsequently as Photo Editor of the student newspaper, The Torch. He is a 2004 graduate of the NPPA/Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and a 2005 graduate of the week-long Sports Picture Editing Program at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Today, Coughlin is a photo editor and contract sports photographer with the New York Post. In addition, he runs a photo assignment agency, Photostation Images LLC. [http://www.photostationimages.com]

Coughlin is an active member with: the Associated Press Photo Managers Association, New York Press Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association. He lives on Long Island, NY.

More recently, he contributed an article to News Photographer (March, 2007), the official monthly magazine of the National Press Photographers Association, analyzing newspapers who choose wire service photos over those taken by their own staff photographers. The article: "Instead of Staff; Why More Newspapers Are Using Wire Photographs" has created a stir and discussion among newspaper and wire service photo editors alike. [http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/magazine/]