This award is given for a single photo or package of up to three related photos produced under pressure or deadline.

The nominees for Spot News Photography (under 25,000 circulation) are: Ian McAlpine, Kingston Whig-Standard, Mike DiBattista, The Niagara Falls Review and Brian Thompson, The Brantford Expositor

A group of friends wait for word from police searching the Grand River for their friend. They said they had been drinking to celebrate the end of the school year, when the student went into the river. BRIAN THOMPSON/BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR)
A group of friends wait for word from police searching the Grand River for their friend. They said they had been drinking to celebrate the end of the school year, when the student went into the river.
BRIAN THOMPSON/BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR)

 

Crews in a helicopter from 8 Wing Trenton rescue a crane operator during a massive fire of a construction site for student housing on Princess and Victoria Streets in downtown Kingston on December 17 2013 (IAN MACALPINE/KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD)
Crews in a helicopter from 8 Wing Trenton rescue a crane operator during a massive fire of a construction site for student housing on Princess and Victoria Streets in downtown Kingston on December 17 2013 (IAN MACALPINE/KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD)
Hundreds of people at Niagara Falls watched police negotiators talk a distraught man back from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls Wednesday morning April 3, 2013 (MIKE DIBATTISTA /NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW)
Hundreds of people at Niagara Falls watched police negotiators talk a distraught man back from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls Wednesday morning April 3, 2013 (MIKE DIBATTISTA /NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW)
SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY (under 25,000 circulation)