Anja Niedringhaus

Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 5 April 2014) was a 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. 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 presidential election, when an Afghan policeman opened fire at the car she was waiting in at a checkpoint, part of an election convoy. He was arrested.

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Category:1965 births
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Category:Assassinated German people
Category:War correspondents
Category:German photojournalists
Category:Murders by firearm
Category:People from North Rhine-Westphalia
Category:Pulitzer Prize winners