Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2015 | Page 22

Faith in the News
by Andrew Thompson ’13

Trust in the media is at an all-time low.
Yet the influence of the media
is vast. Read how and why Wheaton
alumni in journalism are fulfilling the
call to bring their faith to work.

Allison Shelley/Reuters

Three days before the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti,
a woman prays in the wreckage of the main cathedral in downtown
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 9, 2011. This photograph was taken by Allison
Shelley ’94, an independent documentary photographer and multimedia
creator. Former staff photographer for the Washington Times, Allison’s
photography has been exhibited worldwide and has appeared in
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publications including TIME magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic,
Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Paris Match.
She has received awards or financial support from the Pulitzer Center
on Crisis Reporting, the White House News Photographers Association,
and others. She is now focused internationally, pursuing long-form
documentary projects.
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