Anja Niedringhaus

Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 - 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the European Pressphoto Agency and the Associated Press. She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. That same year she was awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award. She worked as a reporter in other conflict zones, including Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, and Pakistan. She also covered nine Olympic Games and other sporting events. She was shot and killed on 4 April 2014 in Khost, Afghanistan, while reporting on an election-commission convoy preparing for the presidential election in Afghanistan.