Rebecca Santana, administrative correspondent, Deep South/New Orleans; Gerald Herbert, photographer, New Orleans; Courtney Bonnell, day supervisor, West Regional Desk, Phoenix; and Amy Forliti, reporter, Minneapolis, for their work that allowed AP to break news and dominate coverage with its rapid, all-format coverage of the shooting deaths of five people in Louisiana – including the first interview with a family member of the dead, Facebook postings from the shooter, and an all-formats interview with two people who lived with two of those killed.