Tyler Hicks
Tyler Hicks is an American journalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Turkey, he typically covers foreign affairs, with an emphasis in recent years on conflict and war, but also works at times on assignments across the United States.
He has won several awards. He was named the newspaper photographer of the year by the Missouri School of Journalism's Pictures of the Year International contest in 2007.[1] He shared the 2009 Pultizer Prize for International Reporting with a team from The New York Times recognized for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he works frequently in the field, focusing on the ground-level experience. In 2010, his photographs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the war correspondence of his colleagues Dexter Filkins and C.J. Chivers, with whom he often works, were selected by New York University as one of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade.[citation needed]
Before working at the Times Hicks was a freelance photographer based in Africa and the Balkans, and worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Ohio.[2]
Hicks has worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Russia, Bosnia, Lebanon, Israel, and many countries in Africa including during the 2011 South Sudan referendum. He graduated from Boston University's School of Communication in 1992 with a degree in Journalism.[3]
Hicks was reported missing on March 16, 2011, while covering the revolution in Libya for The New York Times.[4] The New York Times reported on 18 March 2011 that Libya had agreed to free him and three colleagues: Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Stephen Farrell.[5] Hicks and his three colleagues were released on March 21, 2011, six days after being captured in Ajdabiya by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi. [6]
On Feb 16, 2012, Hicks's colleague Anthony Shadid suffered a deadly asthma attack while covering civil unrest in Syria. Hicks reportedly carried the body of his dead colleague across the border into Turkey. [7]
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ The New York Times Agency: Features : TYLER HICKS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
- ^ Hicks shares Iraq pics - News
- ^ "Times Photographer Honored for '06 Work". The New York Times. 26 February 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/business/media/26times.html.
- ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (16 March 2011). "Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya". Media Decoder, NYTimes. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, David (18 March 2011). "Libya Says It Will Release Times Journalists". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19journalists.html?_r=3. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (21 March 2011). "Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22times.html?_r=2. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ New York Times, At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html
[edit] External links
- Lens posts published by Tyler Hicks, (The New York Times) Tyler Hicks' essays on the Times' Lens blog.
