For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
The Des Moines Register, by 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.
Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, presents the 2010 Breaking News Photography prize to Mary Chind of The Des Moines Register.
Winning Work
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River rescue in downtown Des Moines: A woman is pulled from near the Center Street dam by construction worker Jason Oglesbee on Tuesday. A man who was with the unidentified woman died in the Des Moines River. A rescue team from the Des Moines Fire Department tried several times to rescue the woman but could not get close enough to her.
Published July 1, 2009
Biography
Mary Chind has been a staff photographer at The Des Moines Register since 1999. A University of Wisconsin graduate, Chind previously worked for two newspapers in Arizona -- The Sierra Vista Herald and the Tucson Citizen.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2010:
Staff
For its unforgettable images that take viewers to the frontlines of America's war in Afghanistan, recording a range of scenes and emotions, from mirth to pain and sorrow.
Staff
For its compelling and remarkably complete photo coverage of the miraculous landing of a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River off Manhattan without loss of life.
The Jury
The Jury
Nancy Andrews
managing editor/digital media
Nanya Friend
editor and publisher
Richard Murphy
photo director
Sherman Williams(chair )
assistant managing editor/visual journalism
Steve Gonzales
director of photography
Winners in Breaking News Photography
Patrick Farrell
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
Adrees Latif
For his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.
Oded Balilty
For his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.
Staff
For its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans.
2010 Prize Winners
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Hank Williams
For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
Rae Armantrout
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.