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The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Breaking News Photography

Finalist: Photography Staff of the Associated Press

For jarring images that vividly reminded readers that the people of Iraq still live with the horrors of a war that many Americans have forgotten.

Nominated Work

A Peshmerga convoy drives towards the frontline in Khazer, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) east of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 17, 2016. Photo by Bram Janssen/Associated Press.

A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they advance towards Islamic State held territory in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2016. Photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press.

An Iraqi special forces sniper aims his weapon at Islamic State positions near the front line in eastern Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 15, 2016. Photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press.

An Iraqi soldier from the 9th division looks through a sniper hole in the Al-Intisar district in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 5, 2016. Photo by Manu Brabo/Associated Press.
 
A man rides his bike on a street as smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 31, 2016. Photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press.
 
A member of the Iraqi special forces shoots his machine gun at an Islamic State militant drone in the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 18, 2016. Photo by Manu Brabo/Associated Press.
 

Iraqi soldiers of the 17th Division carry a wounded comrade immediately after a mortar hit the area where the troops where gathering to advance towards the Islamic State held village of Ganus, about 40 miles (70 Kilometers) south of Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 11, 2016. Photo by Manu Brabo/Associated Press.

An Iraqi special forces soldier leads an alleged Islamic State group collaborator towards a house where they gather people to transfer them to refugee camps, in the Samah front line neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 24, 2016. Photo by Hussein Malla/Associated Press.

Iraqi children look at the body of a half buried Islamic State militant while talking to an Iraqi soldier stepping on the body in Al Barid district in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 18, 2016. Photo by Manu Brabo/Associated Press.
 
Children play next to a burning oil field in Qayara, south of Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 3, 2016. Photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press.
 
Men accused of being Islamic State militants ride in the back of an Iraqi special forces armored vehicle after being captured in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2016. Photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press.
 

Iraqi man Omar Ali grieves as he holds his dead 15-month-old daughter Amira at a field hospital set up by the Iraqi special forces medical unit in the al-Samah front line neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 23, 2016. Amira was killed by an ISIS mortar shell in the al-Tahrir neighborhood. Photo by Hussein Malla/Associated Press.

Iraqi displaced people plead for food during an aid distribution in Khazer camp for the displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan, north Iraq, Dec. 17, 2016. Photo by Manu Brabo/Associated Press.
 
Asal Ahmed, 4-years-old, is carried by her father at the scene of a massive suicide truck bomb attack in Karada, Iraq, July 9, 2016. Photo by Hadi Mizban/Associated Press.
 

Smoke rises as people flee their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and members of the Islamic State group in Hit, Iraq, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, April 4, 2016. Photo by Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press.

Iraqis displaced from Mosul wait on a bus before being transported to an Internally Displaced Peoples camp, near Bartella, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2016. Photo by Cengiz Yar/Associated Press.
 
Family member grieve over the grave of a loved one at a graveyard damaged by Islamic State extremists in Qayara, around 30 miles (50 kilometers), south of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2016. Photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/Associated Press.
Iraqi Federal police covered in dust arrive to join the forces surrounding Fallujah, 40 miles (70 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, May 24, 2016. Photo by Rwa Faisal/Associated Press.

Winners

Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2017:

Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer

For powerful storytelling through images published in The New York Times showing the callous disregard for human life in the Philippines brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users. (Moved into this category from Feature Photography by the nominating jury.) Breaking News Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2017:

Jonathan Bachman, freelance photographer

For an iconic image, published by Reuters, of one woman’s simple but stout-hearted stand during a protest in Baton Rouge over the shooting by the police of a 37-year-old black man.

The Jury

Sherman Williams(Chair)

Assistant Managing Editor/Visual Journalism

Andrea Bruce

Photographer

David Hume Kennerly*

Photographer

Michele McDonald

Photo Editor

Deb Pastner

Director of Photography/Multimedia

Winners in Breaking News Photography

2015

Photography Staff

For powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country.
2014

Tyler Hicks

For his compelling pictures that showed skill and bravery in documenting the unfolding terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Kenya.
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2017 Prize Winners

Feature Writing

C. J. Chivers

For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD.
Commentary

Peggy Noonan

For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.
Criticism

Hilton Als

For bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality and race.
Editorial Writing

Art Cullen

For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.
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