Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography

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The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, has been awarded since 2000. Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (later renamed breaking news) and feature categories. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is a journalism school and one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism (full and part-time), Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D. in communications. The school,...

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Year Award Winner Winning work Notes/Description
  • 2009
  • For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
  • 2008
  • For his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.
  • 2007
  • For his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.
  • 2006
  • For its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans.
  • 2005
  • For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
  • 2004
  • For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war in Iraq.
  • 2003
  • For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.
  • 2002
  • For its coverage of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
  • 2001
  • For his photograph of federal agents removing Elián González from his uncle's home.
  • 2000
  • For its photographic coverage of students following the shooting at Columbine High School near Denver.
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