April 09, 2008	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 2, 1429

NEW YORK, April 8: Adrees Latif, a Pakistan-born photojournalist, has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for “Breaking News Photography”, according to media reports.

Latif of Reuters, who is based in Bangkok, won the prize on Monday for his dramatic photo of a Japanese videographer being attacked in Myanmar.

The graphic photo shows the man, sprawled on the pavement, continuing to shoot with his camera after what turned out to be a fatal injury sustained in shooting that followed a street demonstration as troops attacked protesters.

Latif has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Houston. After working for Reuters in the US, he moved to Bangkok in 2003 where he covers news across Asia.

The Pulitzers are journalism’s highest awards and given annually in various categories by the Columbia University.

They are named after the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who died in 1911.

This year, The Washington Post won a record six Pulitzers, including for its coverage last year of the Virginia Tech massacre, in which a mentally-ill student killed 32 people and committed suicide.—APP