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Pulitzer Prize For Spot News Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. From 2000 it has used the "breaking news" name but it is considered a continuation of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, which was awarded from 1968 to 1999. Prior to 1968, a single Prize was awarded for photojournalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was replaced in that year by Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography * 1968: Rocco Morabito, '' Jacksonville Journal'', for his photograph of telephone linemen, " The Kiss of Life". * 1969: Edward T. Adams, Associated Press, for his photograph, "Saigon Execution". * 1970: Steve Starr, Associated Press, for his news photo taken at Cornell University, " Campus Guns". * 1971: John Paul Filo, '' Valley Daily News/Daily Dispatch'', of the Pittsburgh suburbs of Tarentum and New Kensingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. Prizes in 2024 were awarded in these categories, with three finalists named for each: Each winner receives a certificate and $15,000 in cash, except in the Public Service category, where a gold medal is awarded. History Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Pulitzer Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships. He specified "four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships". Updated 2013 by Sig Gissler. After his death on October 29, 1911, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917; they are now announced in May. The '' Chicago Trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Paul Filo
John Paul Filo (; born August 21, 1948) is an American photographer whose picture of 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio screaming while kneeling over the dead body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings, won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. At the time, Filo was both a photojournalism student at Kent State University, and staffer of the ''Valley Daily News'', which became the ''Valley News Dispatch'' and is now a satellite paper for the ''Greensburg Tribune-Review''. Biography After winning the Pulitzer Prize while working for the '' Valley Daily News'' (a Gannett paper) of the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, he continued his career in photojournalism, rapidly finding work at the Associated Press, the ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', and as a picture editor at the ''Baltimore Evening Sun''. He eventually rose to a picture editing job at the weekly news magazine ''Newsweek''. He is now head of photography for CBS. Taking the picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1974 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1974. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** ''Newsday'', Garden City, New York, for its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, ''The Heroin Trail''. * Local General or Spot News Reporting: ** Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh F. Hough of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder of Valerie Percy. * Local Investigative Specialized Reporting: ** William Sherman of the ''New York Daily News'', for his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program. * National Reporting: ** Jack White of ''The Providence Journal'' and ''Evening Bulletin'', for his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. * National Reporting: ** James R. Polk of the ''Washington Star-News'', for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Napalm
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline or diesel fuel). The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated aluminium salts of ''na''phthenic acid and ''palm''itic acid. A team led by chemist Louis Fieser originally developed napalm for the US Chemical Warfare Service in 1942 in a secret laboratory at Harvard University. Of immediate first interest was its viability as an incendiary device to be used in American fire bombing campaigns during World War II; its potential to be coherently projected into a solid stream that would carry for distance (instead of the bloomy fireball of pure gasoline) resulted in widespread adoption in infantry and tank/boat mounted flamethrowers as well. Napalm burns at temperatures ranging from . It burns longer than gasoline, is more easily dispersed, and adheres to its targets. These traits make it both effective and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Huynh Cong Ut
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951), is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo, World Press Photo of the Year for the 1972 photograph ''The Terror of War'', depicting children running away from a napalm bombing attack during the Vietnam War. Since the release of the documentary ''The Stringer'' in 2025, the authorship of the photograph has been disputed; the documentary identified Nguyễn Thành Nghệ as the author, AP stood with the attribution to Ut, and World Press Photo suspended the authorship attribution until more evidence is available. In 2017, he retired. Examples of his work may be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Biography Born in Long An Province, Long An, State of Vietnam, Vietnam (then part of French Indochina), Ut began to take photographs for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1973 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1973. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** ''The Washington Post'', for its investigation of the Watergate case. * Local General or Spot News Reporting: ** The ''Chicago Tribune'', for uncovering flagrant violations of voting procedures in the primary election of March 21, 1972. * Local Investigative Specialized Reporting: ** The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, Nebraska, for uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebraska, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public. * National Reporting: ** Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt of Knight Newspapers, for their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972. * International Reporting: ** Max Frankel of ''The New York Times'', for his coverage of President Nixon's visit to China in 1972. * Commentary: ** David S. Broder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michel Laurent (photographer)
Michel Laurent (born 10 August 1953) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. Major results ;1975 : 1st Grand Prix de la Liberté Fribourg ;1976 : 1st Overall Paris–Nice : Commentry :Promotion Pernod :Tour de Corse :Vernon ;1977 :Le Creusot :Chateau-Chinon : 7th Overall Tour de France ;1978 : 1st La Flèche Wallonne : 1st Critérium des As :Niort :Orchies :Tour de Corse ;1979 :Vailly-sur-Sauldre :Tour Méditerranéen :GP Lugano ;1980 : 1st Overall Critérium International ;1981 :Bain-de-Bretagne : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie : 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;1982 : 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen : 1st Maël-Pestivien : 3rd Overall Tour Midi-Pyrénées : 4th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre : 4th Overall Tour de Corse : 6th Overall Tour de Romandie : 9th Overall Paris–Nice ;1983 : 1st Stage 16 Tour de France : 1st Stage 4 Grand Prix du Midi Libre : 2nd Overall Tour du Sud-Est ::1st Stage 1 : 5th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Horst Faas
Horst Faas (28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012) was a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War. Life Horst Faas as born on 28 April 1933 in Berlin, which was then part of Nazi Germany. Faas began his photographic career in 1951 with the Keystone Agency, and by the age of 21 he was already covering major events concerning Indochina, including the peace negotiations in Geneva in 1954. In 1956 he joined the Associated Press (AP), where he acquired a reputation for being an unflinching hard-news war photographer, covering the wars in Vietnam and Laos, as well as in the Congo and Algeria. In 1962, he became AP's chief photographer for Southeast Asia, and was based in Saigon until 1974. His images of the Vietnam War won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. In 1967 he was severely wounded in the legs by a rocket-propelled grenade. In 1972, he collected a second Pulitzer, for his coverage of the conflict in Bangladesh. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1972 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1972 are: Journalism awards *Public Service: **''The New York Times'', for the publication of the Pentagon Papers. * Local General or Spot News Reporting: ** Richard Cooper and John Machacek of the '' Rochester Times-Union'', for their coverage of the Attica Prison riots. * Local Investigative Specialized Reporting: ** Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian and Ann Desantis of ''The Boston Globe'', for their exposure of widespread corruption in Somerville, Massachusetts. * National Reporting: ** Jack Anderson, syndicated columnist, for his reporting of American policy decision-making during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. * International reporting: ** Peter R. Kann of ''The Wall Street Journal'', for his coverage of the Indo Pakistan War of 1971. * Commentary: ** Mike Royko of the '' Chicago Daily News'', for his columns during 1971. *Criticism: ** Frank Peters Jr. of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', for his music criticism during 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre or May 4 massacre"These would be the first of many probes into what soon became known as the Kent State Massacre. Like the Boston Massacre almost exactly two hundred years before (March 5, 1770), which it resembled, it was called a massacre not for the number of its victims, but for the wanton manner in which they were shot down." ) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio Army National Guard, Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the Cambodian campaign, expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces, as well as protesting the United States National Guard, National Guard presence on campus and the Conscription in the United States, draft. Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired about 67 rounds over 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
New Kensington, Pennsylvania
New Kensington (known locally as New Ken) is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 12,170 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is situated along the Allegheny River northeast of Pittsburgh and is part of the Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh metropolitan area. History Like much of Westmoreland County and surrounding areas, the region was a hunting ground for American Indians of the Iroquois Confederacy, Six Nations. White settlement began in the mid-1700s. Continental army troops built Fort Crawford, near the mouth of Pucketa Creek, in 1777. The fort was abandoned in 1793. Originally part of Burrell (and later Lower Burrell) Township, the city of New Kensington was founded in 1891. In 1890, the Burrell Improvement Company considered the advantages of the level land south of its home in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, Lower Burrell, and deemed it a prime location for a city and named the area "Kensington"; this was later changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
