The Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography was awarded from 1968 – 1999, thereafter being renamed as the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking 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 and Daily Dispatch, Tarentum and New Kensington, Pennsylvania, for his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970.
• 1972: Horst Faas and Michel Laurent, Associated Press, for their picture series, "Death in Dacca".
• 1973: Huynh Cong Ut , Associated Press, for his photograph, "The Terror of War," depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing.
• 1974: Anthony K. Roberts, a freelance photographer of Beverly Hills, California, for his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an alleged kidnapper was killed.
• 1975: Gerald H. Gay, Seattle Times, for his photograph of four exhausted firefighters, "Lull in the Battle".
• 1976: Stanley Forman, Boston Herald-American, for his sequence of photographs of a fire in Boston on July 22, 1975.
• 1977: Stanley Forman, Boston Herald-American, for his photograph of Joseph Rakes attacking Theodore Landsmark — using an American flag as a lance — during a desegregation busing demonstration at Boston City Hall.
• 1977: Neal Ulevich, of the Associated Press, for a series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok.
• 1978: John H. Blair, a special assignment photographer for United Press International, for a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint.
• 1979: Thomas J. Kelly III, Pottstown Mercury, Pennsylvania, for a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road."
• 1980: An unnamed photographer, United Press International, for "Firing Squad in Iran." In 2006, The photographer's identity was revealed to be Jahangir Razmi.^[1]
• 1981: Larry C. Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, for his photographs from Liberia.
• 1982: Ron Edmonds, Associated Press, for his coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt.
• 1983: Bill Foley, Associated Press, for his moving series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp in Beirut.
• 1984: Stan Grossfeld , Boston Globe, for his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon.
• 1985: Photography staff, Register, Santa Ana, California, for their exceptional coverage of the Olympic games.
• 1986: Carol Guzy and Michel duCille, Miami Herald, for their photographs of the devastation caused by the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia.
• 1987: Kim Komenich, San Francisco Examiner, for his photographic coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos.
• 1988: Scott Shaw , Odessa American, for his photograph of the child Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.
• 1989: Ron Olshwanger, a freelance photographer, for a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.
• 1990: Photo Staff of Oakland Tribune, California, for their photographs of devastation caused by the Loma Prieta Earthquake of October 17, 1989. Oakland Tribune team consisted of Tom Duncan, Angela Pancrazio, Pat Greenhouse, Reginald Pearman, Matthew Lee, Gary Reyes, Michael Macor, Ron Riesterer, Paul Miller, Roy H. Williams.
• 1991: Greg Marinovich, Associated Press, for a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
• 1992: Staff, Associated Press, for photographs of the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime.
• 1993: Ken Geiger and William Sneider, Dallas Morning News, for their dramatic photographs of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
• 1994: Paul Watson, Toronto Star, 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.
• 1995: Carol Guzy, Washington Post, for her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath.
• 1996: Charles Porter IV, a freelancer, 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 fireman.
• 1997: Annie Wells, Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, for her dramatic photograph of a firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters.
• 1998: Martha Rial , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.
• 1999: Staff, Associated Press, for its portfolio of images following the embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania that illustrates both the horror and the humanity triggered by the event.

External links

• Gallery: World Press Photo Of The Year since 1955.
• Pulitzer Prize winners for Spot News Photography.

References

1. ^ Joshua Prager, December 2, 2006. "A Photograph's Hidden History", Wall Street Journal, Weekend Edition, New York