2023 General News - 2023 NPPA Best of Photojournalism

First Place

Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

Makai Adams, 20, center, along with his fellow EMT try to save a woman in her 30s outside her apartment after she overdosed on what they think is fentanyl in San Diego, California, Friday, November 11, 2022. “It’s has been crazy in San Diego’s downtown,” said Adams. “I see at least 6 to 7 overdoses a night.”

Second Place

Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

Family of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Lipskiy grieving at his casket during a military service of 5 Ukrainian soldiers in Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Lipskiy was killed on March 18th during a Russian airstrike that hit the 36th Ukrainian Naval Infantry Brigade killing more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Mykolaiv.

Third Place

Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press

Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers March 30 in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. After nine days since the discovery of Vadym's corpse, finally Nadiya could have a proper funeral for him. This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son's body home for burial.

Honorable Mention

Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press

Dead bodies are put into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces.