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The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. From 2000 it has used the "breaking news" name but it is considered a continuation of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, which was awarded from 1968 to 1999. Prior to 1968, a single Prize was awarded for photojournalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was replaced in that year by Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
There were 33 Spot News Photography prizes awarded in 32 years including two in 1977 (for 1976 work):
One Breaking News Pulitzer has been awarded annually from 2000 without exception.
Year | Photographer | Organization | Subject | Web links |
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2000 | Staff | Rocky Mountain News | "for its photographic coverage of students following the shooting at Columbine High School near Denver." | images |
2001 | Alan Diaz | Associated Press | "for his photograph of federal agents removing Elián González from his uncle's home." | image |
2002 | Staff | The New York Times | "for its coverage of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center." | images |
2003 | Staff | Rocky Mountain News | "for its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires." | images |
2004 | David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer | The Dallas Morning News | "for their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war in Iraq." | images |
2005 | Staff | Associated Press | "for its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities." | images |
2006 | Staff | The Dallas Morning News | "for its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans." | images |
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." | image |
2008 | Adrees Latif | Reuters | "for his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar."[5] | image |
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." | image |
2010 | Mary Chind | The Des Moines Register | "for her photograph of the heart-stopping moment when a rescuer dangling in a makeshift harness tries to save a woman trapped in the foaming water beneath a dam." | image |
2011 | Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn, and Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | "for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti." | images |
2012 | Massoud Hossaini | Agence France-Presse | "for his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber's attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul." | images |
2013 | Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen | Associated Press | "for their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria." | images |
2014 | Tyler Hicks | The New York Times | "for courageously documenting a deadly terrorist attack at a Nairobi shopping mall." | images |
2015 | Staff | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | "for powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, Missouri, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country."[6] | images |
2016 | Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks, and Daniel Etter | The New York Times | "for photographs that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the struggle of host countries to take them in." | images |
Staff | Reuters | "for gripping photographs, each with its own voice, that follow migrant refugees hundreds of miles across uncertain boundaries to unknown destinations." | images | |
2017 | Daniel Berehulak | The New York Times | "for powerful storytelling through images published in The New York Times showing the callous disregard for human life in the Philippines brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users."[7] | images |
2018 | Ryan Kelly | The Daily Progress | "for a chilling image that reflected the photographer's reflexes and concentration in capturing the moment of impact of a car attack during a racially charged protest in Charlottesville, Va."[8] | images |
2019 | Staff | Reuters | "for a vivid and startling visual narrative of the urgency, desperation and sadness of migrants as they journeyed to the U.S. from Central and South America."[9] | images |
2020 | Staff | Reuters | "for wide-ranging and illuminating photographs of Hong Kong as citizens protested infringement of their civil liberties and defended the region's autonomy by the Chinese government."[10] | images |
2021 | Staff | Associated Press | "for a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country's response to the death of George Floyd."[11] | images |
2022 | Marcus Yam | Los Angeles Times | "for raw and urgent images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country." | images |
Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry | Getty Images | "for comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the U.S. Capitol."[12] | images | |
2023 | Staff | Associated Press | "In recognition of 15 searing images that rendered in real-time the devastating human toll of the war in Ukraine".[13] | images |
2024 | Staff | Reuters | "for raw and urgent photographs documenting the October 7th deadly attack in Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza." |
His photograph of the fatal shooting of a fellow journalist, the Japanese videographer Kenji Nagai, won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday.