What is Anja Niedringhaus?
'''Anja Niedringhaus''' (12 October 1965 – 5 April 2014) was a [[Germany|German]] [[photojournalist]]. == Career == Niedringhaus was born in [[Hoxter]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[West Germany]]. She worked for the [[Associated Press]] (AP). 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]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2005-Breaking-News-Photography | title= The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Breaking News Photography| publisher = The Pulitzer Prizes| access-date = 31 October 2013}}</ref> That same year she was awarded the [[International Women's Media Foundation]]'s [[Courage in Journalism Award]]. Niedringhaus had covered Afghanistan for several years before she was killed on 4 April 2014. She was shot while covering the [[Afghan presidential election, 2014|presidential election]], when an [[Afghan]] [[policeman]] opened fire at the car she was waiting in at a [[Security checkpoint|checkpoint]], part of an election convoy. He was [[arrest]]ed. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Niedringhaus, Anja}} [[Category:1965 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Assassinated German people]] [[Category:War correspondents]] [[Category:German photojournalists]] [[Category:Murders by firearm]] [[Category:People from North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:Pulitzer Prize winners]] {{bio-stub}}