Finalist: Palm Beach Post , by Gary Coronado
For his vivid images of Central Americans who, desperate to enter America illegally, risk their lives leaping on Mexican freight trains rumbling northward.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2007:
Renée C. Byer
For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer.
Feature Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2007:
Mary F. Calvert
For her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth.
The Jury
The Jury
Kenneth Irby(chair )
visual journalism group leader and diversity program director
Ronnie Agnew
executive editor
Hai Do
director of photography
Liza Gross
managing editor, presentation
Karin Winner
editor
Winners in Feature Photography
Todd Heisler
For his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.
Deanne Fitzmaurice
For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.
Carolyn Cole
For her cohesive, behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict.
Don Bartletti
For his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.
2007 Prize Winners
The Wall Street Journal
For its creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America.
Staff
For its skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains, telling the tragic story both in print and online.
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, and Rick Loomis
For their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials.
Renée C. Byer
For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer.