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Finalist: Providence Journal , by Rachel Ritchie

For her photograph of an armed man who shot four people at a local street fair.

Winners

Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2001:

Alan Diaz

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

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2001:

Chris Gerald

For his photograph of a Palestinian youth triumphantly raising his bloodstained hands after two Israeli soldiers were killed.

The Jury

Robert Kaiser(chair )

associate editor

Thomas E. Callinan

editor

Martha Rial*

photographer

Will Sutton

deputy managing editor

Charles Zoeller

director, NewsPhoto Library

Winners in Breaking News Photography

Photo Staff

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

2001 Prize Winners

David Cay Johnston

For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.

Staff

For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.