Reuters reporter honored for Genoa pictures

ANGERS, France (Reuters) - A Reuters journalist who photographed a protester being killed by Italian police during anti-globalization demonstrations last summer was honored in an international journalism competition on Saturday.

The Festival International du Scoop et du Journalisme in Angers awarded its documentary prize to Dylan Martinez, whose dramatic photographs of the death of Carlo Giuliani appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world in July.

The top photo prize this year went to Klaus Reisinger of French agency Editing for his coverage of the September 11 attacks in New York. The top video prize was awarded to Daniel Laine and Celine Hue of France's Tony Comiti Production and M6 television for their work in Afghanistan (news-web sites).

Martinez, the chief photographer in Italy for global news and information provider Reuters Group Plc, was covering the violent street demonstrations near a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) leaders in Genoa when he witnessed
the death.

Martinez was on a narrow street off Genoa's Piazza Tommaseo as protesters began attacking a Carabinieri paramilitary jeep.

As one of the protesters prepared to throw a fire extinguisher at the vehicle's shattered rear window, he was hit by two shots from within.
The demonstrator, later identified as Giuliani, fell to the ground and was then run over by the jeep.

The Angers festival, in western France, has been making annual journalism awards since 1986.