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Finalist: The Record , by Thomas E. Franklin

For his memorable photograph of three firefighters raising an American flag amidst the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers.

Winners

Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2002:

Staff

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

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2002:

Tyler Hicks and James Hill

For their comprehensive portfolio of dramatic yet humane images from the war in Afghanistan.

The Jury

Charles Zoeller(chair )

director, NewsPhoto Library

Thomas E. Callinan

editor

John Glenn

assistant managing editor, photo

Larry Price

assistant managing editor, photo

Martha Rial*

photographer

Winners in Breaking News Photography

Alan Diaz

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

Photo Staff

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

2002 Prize Winners

Staff

For its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future.