The Paris-based team of Angela Charlton, bureau chief; Masha MacPherson, senior producer; Lori Hinnant, enterprise reporter; Jeff Schaeffer, senior producer; Bertrand Combaldieu, deputy photo editor; Chris den Hond, video journalist; Oleg Cetinic, video journalist; Alex Turnbull, video journalist; Michel Euler, photographer; and Elaine Ganley, reporter, for overcoming huge technical, logistical and competitive challenges to dominate coverage of the Notre Dame fire by maximizing the strength of on-the-ground reporting, live video and dramatic user-generated content visuals that captured the world’s attention.
Paris team overcomes obstacles to deliver riveting Notre Dame coverage
Smoke and flames rise around the spire of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, April 15, 2009. AP obtained the rights to a remarkable series of photos shot by a photographer on an island in the Seine, showing the Eiffel Tower in the background at the height of the fire.
AP Photo / Thierry Mallet