Scott Strazzante (born March 11, 1964) is an American photojournalist at the San Francisco Chronicle. As a member of the Chicago Tribune staff, he co-won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series about faulty government regulation of dangerously defective toys, cribs and car seats. [1]
He grew up in Chicago and graduated from Ripon College, where he majored in business management and art (1982–86).
He has been published in National Geographic Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine,[2] Sports Illustrated, and other publications.Strazzante's Common Ground project has been published in National Geographic and made into a video by MediaStorm.[3]
He is a former Illinois Press Photographer Association president (2001–2010)[4] and National Press Photographers Association Region 5 Director and Associate Director (1999–2005).
Strazzante is a prolific street photographer using his iPhone with Hipstamatic app.[5]
He is an eleven-time Illinois Photographer of the Year.[6] He was awarded National Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2000[7] and National Newspaper Photographer of the Year runner-up in 2007.[8]