Finalist: Register-Guard , by Photo Staff
For its coverage of a community recoiling then recovering from a brutal shooting spree at a local high school.
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Photography in 1999:
Photo Staff
For its portfolio of images following the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that illustrates both the horror and the humanity triggered by the event.
Spot News Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Photography in 1999:
Mike Stocker
For his consistently powerful photographs of the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch on Central America.
The Jury
The Jury
Toren A. Beasley(chair )
director of photography
Vincent Alabiso
vice president/executive photo editor
Jeannine Guttman
executive editor and vice president
Margaret O'Connor
photo editor
William Snyder*
photo editor
Winners in Spot News Photography
Martha Rial
For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.
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.
1999 Prize Winners
Duke Ellington
Bestowed posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik
For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
Staff
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself.