Finalist: The New York Times , by Kevin Carter
For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby (Originally submitted in Feature Photography and returned by the Board to that category.)
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Photography in 1994:
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.
Spot News Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Photography in 1994:
Staff
For photographs of the devastation left by fires that blazed through Southern California.
Winners in Spot News Photography
Ken Geiger and William Snyder
For their dramatic photographs of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Staff
For photographs of the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime.
Greg Marinovich
For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
Photo Staff
For photographs of devastation caused by the Bay Area earthquake of October 17, 1989.
1994 Prize Winners
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld
For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
William Raspberry
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Lloyd Schwartz
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.