Slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui amongst 4 Indians honored with Pulitzer Prize

Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters information company gained the award, introduced on Monday, for “images of Covid’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”, According to The Pulitzer Prizes web site.

Their work was moved from the breaking information pictures class by the judges.

Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography: Residences encompass the grounds of a crematorium throughout a mass cremation for victims of the coronavirus illness in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Siddiqui, 38, was on project in Afghanistan final 12 months when he died, The award-winning journalist was killed in July final whereas protecting clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar metropolis.

This is for the second time that Siddiqui has gained the Pulitzer Prize. He was honored with the distinguished award in 2018 as a part of the Reuters workforce for his or her protection of the Rohingya disaster. He had extensively coated the Afghanistan battle, the Hong Kong protests and different main occasions in Asia, Middle East, and Europe.

Siddiqui graduated with a level in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. He had a level in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Center at Jamia in 2007.

Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography: A ‘Naga Sadhu,’ or Hindu holy man, locations a masks throughout his face earlier than coming into the Ganges river in the course of the conventional Shahi Snan, or royal dip, on the Kumbh Mela pageant in Haridwar, India, April 12, 2021. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

He began his profession as a tv information correspondent, switched to photojournalism, and joined Reuters as an intern in 2010.

Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times bagged the award within the Breaking News pictures class “for raw and urgent images of the US departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country”.

Yam’s work was moved from Feature Photography by the jury.

Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images additionally gained the award within the Breaking News pictures class for his or her “comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the US Capitol”.

The Washington Post bagged the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism for its protection of the January 6 riot on the US Capitol.

According to the award committee, the newspaper “compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021, providing the public with a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days”.

The Pulitzer Board awarded a particular quotation to the journalists of Ukraine for his or her “courage, endurance, and commitment to truthful reporting during (President) Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia”.

“Despite bombardment, abductions, occupation, and even deaths in their ranks, they have persisted in their effort to provide an accurate picture of a terrible reality, doing honor to Ukraine and to journalists around the world,” the committee stated.

The Pulitzer Prizes have been established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper writer, who left cash to Columbia University upon his loss of life in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to discovered the School of Journalism in 1912 and set up the Pulitzer Prizes , which have been first awarded in 1917.

The 19-member Pulitzer Board consists of main journalists and information executives from media shops throughout the US, in addition to 5 teachers or individuals within the arts. The dean of Columbia’s journalism faculty and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates yearly to probably the most senior member or members.