The Associated Press won’t change ‘Napalm Girl’ photo credit
-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/05/06/napalm-girl-nick-ut-associated-press/
After a documentary called into question whether Nick Ut snapped the famous “Napalm Girl” photograph during the Vietnam War, the Associated Press said it is standing by the photographer.
The AP, which previously published an interim report on its investigation into the authorship dispute in January, ahead of the Sundance Film Festival premiere of the documentary “The Stringer,” issued its final 97-page report Tuesday seeking to put the matter to rest.
Staff of the wire service spent the past year investigating claims that Ut was not responsible for the image — formally titled “The Terror of War” — which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1973. The AP came to its decision that Ut should retain his credit because of a lack of conclusive evidence that the credit should change.
