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Finalist: The New York Times, by Tyler Hicks

For his powerful pictures chronicling deadly destruction in Gaza following a retaliatory bombing by Israel.

Nominated Work

A man running for cover after an explosion in Gaza City. (November 17, 2012)

A terrified family being evacuated from their Gaza City apartment moments after bomb from an Israeli jet exploded nearby. (November 19, 2012)

An injured man moments after three bombs exploded in Gaza City, killing one and injuring several others. (November 17, 2012)

An apartment building in central Gaza City after it was hit by Israeli bombs, flattening the building and causing civilian deaths. (November 18, 2012)

The body of a boy found after an apartment building in central Gaza City was hit by Israeli bombs. (November 18, 2012)

Mourners at the funeral for the Dalu family. Nine members of the family, from three generations, were killed when an Israeli bomb struck their home in Gaza. (November 19, 2012)

The body of a child being carried at the funeral for eight of the nine members of the Dalu family killed in an Israeli airstrike. (November 19, 2012)

A mourner overwhelmed at the funeral. (November 19, 2012)

Mourners for a member of the al-Quds Brigades who was killed by an Israeli bomb in Gaza. (November 26, 2012)

Smoke rising from a high-rise that included offices for media in Gaza that was struck by an Israeli bomb. (November 26, 2012)

A funeral for three men killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. (November 17, 2012)

The body of a suspected collaborator being dragged through the streets of Gaza City. (November 20, 2012)

Onlookers at a high-rise building that includes offices for media, after it was struck by an Israeli bomb. (November 19, 2012)

A building that was destroyed overnight in Gaza City. (November 26, 2012)

Clearing the debris from an apartment, part of a row struck in an overnight Israeli airstrike. (November 19, 2012)

The home believed to belong to a Hamas official was demolished in an attack. (November 26, 2012)

A man and boy amid the rubble of a destroyed home in Gaza. (November 26, 2012)

A man viewing the damage to an apartment building in Gaza City. (November 23, 2012)

Biography

Tyler Hicks is a staff photographer for The New York Times.

Winners

Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2013:

Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen

For their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria, producing memorable images under extreme hazard. Breaking News Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2013:

Staff

For its skillful coverage of the mass shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colo., capturing the scope of the tragedy in a poignant portfolio of pictures.

The Jury

Janet Reeves(Co-chair )

assistant managing editor, photo/multimedia

Judy Walgren(Co-chair )

director of photography

Barbara Davidson*

photographer

Thomas E. Franklin

multimedia and video producer, staff photographer

Kathy Kieliszewski

director of photography and video

Winners in Breaking News Photography

Massoud Hossaini

For his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber's attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul.

Mary Chind

For her photograph of the heart-stopping moment when a rescuer dangling in a makeshift harness tries to save a woman trapped in the foaming water beneath a dam.

Patrick Farrell

For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.

2013 Prize Winners

Adam Johnson

An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.

Ayad Akhtar

A moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage.

Sharon Olds

A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.

Caroline Shaw

A highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects (New Amsterdam Records).