For a distinguished example of spot news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).

Awarded to Charles Porter IV, a freelancer for his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman.

Charles Porter IV accepts the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography from George Rupp, Columbia University President.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: the Associated Press staff for a portfolio of searing images of the war in Chechnya, and Jerome Delay of the Associated Press for his dramatic photographic coverage of the Middle East and Bosnia (moved by the jury from the Feature Photography category).