Breaking News Photography

Finalists have been announced since 1980. Full texts, photographs and cartoons are available for Journalism winners from 1995–2009 only.

Winners

2009 Patrick Farrell The Miami Herald

For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.

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2008 Adrees Latif Reuters

For his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.

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2007 Oded Balilty Associated Press

For his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.

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2006 Staff The Dallas Morning News

For its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans.

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2005 Staff Associated Press

For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.

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2004 David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer The Dallas Morning News

For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.

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2003 Photography Staff Rocky Mountain News

For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.

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2002 Staff The New York Times

For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath.

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2001 Alan Diaz Associated Press

For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.

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2000 Photo Staff Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO

For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.

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Finalists

2009 Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times

For her valorous on-the-spot coverage of political violence in Kenya, capturing the terror as rebellion and reprisals jolted the nation.

2009 Staff Associated Press

For its haunting chronicle of death, destruction, heartbreak and renewal when an earthquake devastated Sichuan, China.

2008 Mahmud Hams Agence France-Presse

For his picture of a missile, caught in mid-air, as it falls on a target in the Gaza Strip while young Palestinians scramble for safety.

2008 Staff Los Angeles Times

For its powerful and often unpredictable photos that captured wildfires devastating California.

2007 Staff Associated Press

For its breathtaking images of brutal warfare between Israel and Hezbollah.

2007 Michael Bryant The Philadelphia Inquirer

For his poignant photographs of the devastating injury to Barbaro, the famed racehorse.

2006 Carolyn Cole and Brian Vander Brug Los Angeles Times

For their spellbinding coverage of Israel's emotion-packed withdrawal from Gaza.

2006 Eric Gay Associated Press

For his multifaceted coverage of the human suffering in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city.

2005 Arko Datta Reuters

For his picture that captured a woman's anguish in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

2005 Staff Palm Beach Post

For its imaginative and panoramic coverage of hurricanes that struck Florida.

2004 Staff Associated Press

For its evocative, panoramic portrayal of the war in Iraq.

2004 Chris Hondros Getty Images

For his powerful and courageous coverage of the bloody upheaval in Liberia (moved by the jury from the Feature Photography category).

2003 Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times

For her extraordinarily intimate depiction of the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

2003 Photography Staff The Washington Times

For its vivid capturing of the events and emotions stirred by the sniper killings in the Washington, D.C., region.

2002 Thomas E. Franklin The Record, Hackensack, NJ

For his memorable photograph of three firefighters raising an American flag amidst the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers.

2002 Tyler Hicks and James Hill The New York Times

For their comprehensive portfolio of dramatic yet humane images from the war in Afghanistan.

2001 Chris Gerald (a pseudonym) of Agence France-Presse

For his photograph of a Palestinian youth triumphantly raising his bloodstained hands after two Israeli soldiers were killed.

2001 Rachel Ritchie Providence Journal

For her photograph of an armed man who shot four people at a local street fair.

2000 Lacy Atkins San Francisco Examiner

For her exuberant portrait of U.S. athlete Brandi Chastain after she scored the winning goal of the Women's World Cup Soccer Final.

2000 Photo Staff The Seattle Times

For its photos of the rioting that disrupted the annual conference of the World Trade Organization.