Federal agents storming a residence to recover Elián González, the image which won Alan Diaz the 2001 Breaking News Photography Pulitzer.
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography has been presented since 1939 for a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... Staff and Students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver and Littleton. ... The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. ... Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... Elián González (born January 19, 1993), at the age of six, was the center of a heated custody and immigration battle between Cuba, the United States government, his father, his Miami relatives, and the Cuban-American community of Miami. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1939:Clicky McPhotographer, for his undercover work investigating an international ring of underage male prostitutes, based in Luton (UK) who were found to be child smuggling for international cottaging clients.
2003: Photography staff of the Rocky Mountain News, for its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.
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.
The very first PulitzerPrizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and in recent times, they are announced each year, in the month of April.
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
BreakingNewsPhotography / Spot NewsPhotography - For a distinguished example of breakingnewsphotography in fl and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.