Nicole Frugé

Nicole Frugé is the Director of Visuals for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she leads one of the most diverse metro photo staffs in the nation.

This year, her team won the Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Human-Interest Storytelling. She has led and edited photo stories on the fentanyl epidemic that were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography (2023 and 2022). The National Press Photographers Association named Frugé the Jim Gordon Photo Editor of the Year (2018), Photo Editor of the Year (2018), and the Chronicle’s photo editors Picture Editing Team of the Year (2014 and 2017).

Before photo editing, she spent ten years working as a staff photographer for newspapers in Texas and Florida.