Finalist: Associated Press , by Eric Gay
For his multifaceted coverage of the human suffering in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city.
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2006:
Staff
For its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans.
Breaking News Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2006:
Carolyn Cole and Brian Vander Brug
For their spellbinding coverage of Israel's emotion-packed withdrawal from Gaza.
The Jury
The Jury
Larry Nylund(chair )
deputy managing editor/ presentation
Hai Do
director of photography
Kenneth Irby
visual journalism group leader and diversity program director
Monica Moses
deputy managing editor, visuals
David Ng
assistant managing editor, productions
Winners in Breaking News Photography
Staff
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
Photography Staff
For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.
Staff
For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath.
2006 Prize Winners
The Times-Picayune
For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)
Sun Herald
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.