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Finalists have been announced since 1980. Full texts, photographs and cartoons are available for Journalism winners from 1995–2008 only.

Winners

2008 David Umhoefer of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.

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2007 Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald

For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions.

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1952 George De Carvalho of San Francisco Chronicle

For his stories of a "ransom racket" extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China.

1951 Edward S. Montgomery of San Francisco Examiner

For his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

1950 Meyer Berger of The New York Times

For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J.

1949 Malcolm Johnson of New York Sun

For his series of 24 articles entitled "Crime on the Waterfront" in New York City.

1948 George E. Goodwin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

For his story of the Telfair County vote fraud, published in 1947.

Finalists

2008 Chris Davis, Matthew Doig and Tiffany Lankes of Sarasota (FA) Herald Tribune

For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action.

2008 Jeff Pillets, John Brennan and Tim Nostrand of The Record, Bergen County, NJ

For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism.

2007 Staff of The Boston Globe

For its well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials.

2007 Fred Schulte and June Arney of The Baltimore Sun

For their reports, in print and online, about abuses under an archaic state law that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes.