“This Is My Job”

David Carson, a staff photojournalist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was caught up in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the Poynter Institute’s Kristen Hare has the story.

Note his comments on other news organizations offering him credit for his photos …

Disclosure: Carson and I went to the same small high school together many, many years ago. That same small high school also produced former CNN correspondent Alphonso Marsh who broke the story of Saddam Hussein’s capture. Something in the water up there …