Tyler Hicks

{{short description|American photojournalist}}

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| name = Tyler Hicks

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| birth_place = São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

| education = Staples High School (Connecticut)

| alma_mater = Boston University College of Communication

| occupation = Photojournalist

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| awards = {{ubl|Robert Capa Gold Medal (2013)|Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (2014, 2016)}}

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Tyler Portis Hicks is a photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Kenya, he covers foreign news for the newspaper with an emphasis on conflict and war.

Early life and education

Hicks was born in São Paulo, Brazil.{{Cite web |title=Tyler Hicks {{!}} World Press Photo |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/tyler-hicks |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=World Press Photo}} He graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, in 1988,{{Cite news|url=http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Westport-natives-both-Staples-grads-among-1158026.php|title=Westport natives, both Staples grads, among missing Times journalists in Libya|work=Westport News|access-date=2018-03-23}} and went on to Boston University College of Communication, where he earned a degree in Journalism in 1992.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/business/media/26times.html|work=The New York Times|title=Times Photographer Honored for '06 Work|date=February 26, 2007}}

Life and work

Hicks was a freelance photographer based in Africa and the Balkans and worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Ohio.{{Cite web |url=http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2003/11/07/News/Hicks.Shares.Iraq.Pics-552055.shtml |title=Hicks shares Iraq pics |access-date=2008-04-22 |archive-date=2008-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206125159/http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2003/11/07/News/Hicks.Shares.Iraq.Pics-552055.shtml |website=dailyfreepress.com|url-status=dead }} He has worked in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Russia, Bosnia, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Chechnya, and many countries in Africa, including South Sudan during the 2011 independence referendum.

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 worked, were selected by New York University as being among the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade.Stephens, Mitchell, "Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade. 2000-2009" (http://journalism.nyu.edu/decade/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905141213/http://journalism.nyu.edu/decade/ |date=2015-09-05 }}) New York University Arthur I. Carter Journalism Institute. http://journalism.nyu.edu/decade/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905141213/http://journalism.nyu.edu/decade/ |date=2015-09-05 }}. Retrieved 18 March 2013.

Hicks was reported missing on March 16, 2011, while covering the revolution in Libya for The New York Times.{{cite news|last=Peters|first=Jeremy W.|title=Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya|accessdate=March 22, 2011|newspaper=Media Decoder|date=March 16, 2011}} The New York Times reported on March 18, 2011 that Libya had agreed to free Hicks, Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Stephen Farrell.{{cite news|last=Kirkpatrick|first=David|title=Libya Says It Will Release Times Journalists|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19journalists.html?_r=3|accessdate=March 18, 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 18, 2011}} Hicks and his three colleagues were released on March 21, 2011, six days after being captured by pro-Gaddafi forces.{{cite news|last=Peters|first=Jeremy W.|title=Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22times.html?_r=2|accessdate=March 21, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 21, 2011}}

He returned to Boston University in 2011 to deliver the commencement address at the College of Communication.{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/05/26/new-york-times-photographer-tyler-hicks-addresses-bu-com-graduates/|title=New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks addresses BU COM graduates {{!}} BU Now|website=blogs.bu.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-23}}

On February 16, 2012, Anthony Shadid suffered a fatal asthma attack while covering civil unrest in Syria with Hicks. Hicks assisted in carrying Shadid's body across the border into Turkey.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html|title=Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria|last=Gladstone|first=Rick|date=2012-02-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-23|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

Hicks was present during the deadly Westgate shopping mall attack by terrorists in Nairobi on September 21, 2013. As injured victims tried to escape, Hicks entered the mall{{cite news| url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/witness-to-a-massacre-in-a-nairobi-mall/?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=LE_WTA_20130921&_r=1& | work=The New York Times | first=James | last=Estrin | title=Witness to a Massacre in a Nairobi Mall | date=September 21, 2013}} and followed Kenyan army and police as they searched for Al-Shabaab militants.{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/ny-times-photo-nairobi-mall-attack-2013-9|title=A NY Times Photographer Happened To Be Near The Nairobi Mall Attack And Took Powerful Photos Inside|work=Business Insider|access-date=2018-03-23}} For this work, he was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography{{Cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/tyler-hicks|title=The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-23}}{{cite news| url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/the-new-york-times-wins-two-photography-pulitzers/ | work=The New York Times | first=James | last=Estrin | title=New York Times Wins Two Photography Pulitzers | date=April 14, 2014}} as well as the Robert Capa Gold Medal.{{Cite news|url=https://nppa.org/news/tyler-hicks-awarded-2013-robert-capa-gold-medal-award|title=Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award|date=2014-04-24|work=NPPA|access-date=2018-03-23|language=en}} In 2016, he received another Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his coverage of the European migrant crisis, sharing it with Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, and Daniel Etter "for photographs that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the struggle of host countries to take them in."{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/216|title=Breaking News Photography|publisher=The Pulitzer Prized|accessdate=7 May 2016}}

Awards

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