Finalist: Associated Press , by Jean-Marc Bouju
For his chilling sequence of seven photographs in Zaire depicting rebel soldiers beating and then executing a man believed to be a member of Mobuto Sese Sekos' presidential guard.
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Photography in 1998:
Martha Rial
For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.
Spot News Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Photography in 1998:
Photo Staff
For its committed coverage of the severe flooding that devastated their community.
The Jury
The Jury
Hal Buell(chair )
executive photo editor (retired)
Toren Beasley
photo director
George Benge
executive editor
Andrew F. Costello Jr.
editor
Kim Komenich*
staff photographer
Winners in Spot News Photography
Annie Wells
For her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters.
Charles Porter IV
For his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman.
Carol Guzy
For her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath.
Paul Watson
For his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
1998 Prize Winners
George Gershwin
Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
Linda Greenhouse
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.