- She photographed the aftermaths of 9/11 in 2001.
- Began working as a photographer while still in high school at the age of 17.
- Niedringhaus was killed in an attack in Afghanistan while covering the country's 2014 presidential election.
- She was shot and killed while reporting on an election-commission convoy preparing for the presidential election in Afghanistan.
- She was a photographer for the Associated Press from 2002 until her death. She was the only woman in the team of 11 AP photojournalists who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in the breaking-news category for coverage of the Iraq War. She worked as a reporter in other conflict zones, including Israel, Palestine, and Pakistan. She also covered nine Olympic Games and other sporting events.
- She was the chief photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency during the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. She was hit by a sniper's bullet on her first day in Sarajevo.
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