Category: Spot News
First Place
Stuart Palley / The Los Angeles Times
“Woolsey Firestorm”
Second Place
Cory Morse / MLive: Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press
“Victims’ father lunges at Nassar”
Third Place
Abdulmonam Eassa / AFP
“Syria—Conflict”
Award of Excellence
Alisha Jucevic / The Columbian
“Barberton House Fire”
Award of Excellence
Katie Rausch / Toledo Blade
“Battling the Blaze”

Third Place
“Syria—Conflict”
A man carries a child as he flees from reported Syrian air force strikes that hit the rebel-held town of Saqba, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Feb. 6, 2018.
Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed more than 60 civilians on Feb. 6, despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.