In 1997, Saul, along with Inquirer reporter Michael Vitez and photographer Ron Cortes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles on end-of-life care, telling the stories of terminally-ill patients who wished to die with dignity.
Saul was born on May 27, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.
[2] Saul became a photographer at The Baltimore Sun in 1980, and the following year, joined the staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
In January 2006, Saul "vowed to document in words and photos the death of every child by gun in the eight-county Philadelphia region in 2006.
"[3] The resulting column in the Philadelphia Inquirer was called "Kids, Guns and a Deadly Toll."