Finalist: the Los Angeles Times , by Carolyn Cole and Brian van der Brug
For their illumination of epic disasters in Japan, documenting the brutality of nature as well as the durability of the human spirit.
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2012:
Massoud Hossaini
For his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber's attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul.
Breaking News Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2012:
John Moore, Peter Macdiarmid and the late Chris Hondros
For their brave coverage of revolutionary protests known as the Arab Spring, capturing the chaos and exuberance as ordinary people glimpsed new possibilities.
The Jury
The Jury
Francisco P. Bernasconi(Chair )
vice president, US news and sports
Colin Crawford
deputy managing editor
Thomas E. Franklin
multimedia and video producer
Mark Hinojosa
director of interactive media
Tim Rasmussen
assistant managing editor, photography/multimedia
Winners in Breaking News Photography
Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti
For their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.
Mary Chind
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.
Patrick Farrell
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
Adrees Latif
For his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.
2012 Prize Winners
No award
No award
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John Lewis Gaddis
An engaging portrait of a globetrotting diplomat whose complicated life was interwoven with the Cold War and America's emergence as the world's dominant power.
Tracy K. Smith
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