Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award

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Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award

Photojournalist Tyler Hicks of The New York Times is the recipient of the 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his photographs of a terrorist attack on the upscale Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya last year. The same picture story by Hicks won

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/tyler-hicks-awarded-2013-robert-capa-gold-medal-award

The Capa Gold Medal honors the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the legendary war photographer Robert Capa. The first Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.