Finalist: The Washington Times , by Photography Staff

For its vivid capturing of the events and emotions stirred by the sniper killings in the Washington, D.C., region.

Winners

Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2003:

For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires. Breaking News Photography

Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2003:

For her extraordinarily intimate depiction of the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

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executive vice president and editor, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.

2002

For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath.

2001

For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.

2000

For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.

Beat Reporting

For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.

Biography

For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.

For its detailed, well-crafted stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River.