Anja Niedringhaus

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anja Niedringhaus
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Oct 12, 1965(1965-10-12)
Age	59
Date Of Death	2014-04-04
Birthplace	Höxter
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Libra

Anja Niedringhaus Biography

Anja Niedringhaus is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on October 12, 1965 in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 from 12 October 1965 to 4 . April 2014.) was a German photographer who worked with the Associated Press (AP). The only female on the team consisting of 11 AP photographers who won the prize in 2005. Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for her coverage of Iraq. Iraq War. The same year, she was presented with the International Women’s Press Foundation’s Courage in Journalism prize.

In 2007 Niedringhaus was granted the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. It was the 69th cohort of Nieman Fellows who studied the history, culture, religion as well as gender issues and gender in Middle Eastern countries. Middle East and their impact on the advancement of foreign policy in the United States and other Western nations. The program was established in 1938. Nieman programme is among the longest-running mid-career journalism fellowship around the globe. The awards are given to journalists who have achieved and who are able to commit to one academic year of study at a university.

Niedringhaus had covered Afghanistan for several years before she was killed on Friday, 4 April 2014, while covering the presidential election, after an Afghan policeman opened fire at the car she was waiting in at a checkpoint, part of an election convoy.

The year 2001 was the time Niedringhaus documented the aftermath of September 11 terror attack within New York City and then moved to Afghanistan and covered for three months the demise of the Taliban. In 2002 she was a part of the Associated Press, for whom she been working across Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip, Israel, Kuwait and Turkey. On the 23rd of October, 2005, she was awarded the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award from American broadcaster Bob Schieffer at a ceremony in New York.

Anja Niedringhaus Net Worth

Anja Niedringhaus is one of the richest Photographer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anja Niedringhaus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Niedringhaus was raised in Hoxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, and started her career as a photographer for a magazine when she was 17 and still at high school. She was in 1989 when she documented the fall of the Berlin Wall for the German publication Gottinger Tageblatt.

Niedringhaus began her full-time career as a photographer in 1990 after she was a member of the European Pressphoto Agency in Frankfurt, Germany. As the agency’s Chief Photographer, she worked for the first 10 years of her career covering conflicts within the ex- Yugoslavia.

Niedringhaus was killed at the age of 48 in an attack in Afghanistan, while covering the country’s 2014 presidential election. Fellow AP journalist, Kathy Gannon, a 60-year-old Canadian, was seriously injured in the attack and underwent emergency surgery. The attack took place at a checkpost on the outskirts of Khost city in Tani District, where the journalists were part of an independent election commission convoy delivering ballots under the protection of the Afghan National Army and Afghan police. While the two were waiting in the car, an Afghan police unit commander named Naqibullah walked up to their car and opened fire while yelling “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great); shooting the two women in the back seat. After the attack, the officer surrendered, and was taken into custody. Six judges at the Kabul District Court found Naqibullah guilty of wounding, murder and treason and sentenced him to death.

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