Finalist: Associated Press , by Staff
For a portfolio of searing images of the war in Chechnya.
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Photography in 1996:
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.
Spot News Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Photography in 1996:
Jerome Delay
For his dramatic photographic coverage of the Middle East and Bosnia (Moved by the Jury from the Feature Photography category.)
The Jury
The Jury
Marty Claus(chair )
vice president/news
Frank Denton
editor
Carol Guzy*
staff photographer
Tim J. McGuire
editor/general manager, reader customer unit
Wickliffe R. Powell
editor
Winners in Spot News Photography
Carol Guzy
For her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath.
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.
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.
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.