National Reporting

For their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation’s oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil.

For his riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan during a decade of war.

For their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation’s economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers.

For his incisive work, in print and online, on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while operating cars and trucks, stimulating widespread efforts to curb distracted driving.

For “PolitiFact,” its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.)

For their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy.

For his revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws.

For their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty.

For their disclosure of bribe-taking that sent former Rep. Randy Cunningham to prison in disgrace.

For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings.

For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries.

For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed "The Widow Maker," that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category to the National Reporting category, where it was also entered.)

For its comprehensive coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments.

For its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America.

For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.

For a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy.

For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.

For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.

For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.

For stories about working conditions in low-wage America.

For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.

For his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate Bill Clinton.

For their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.

For coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath.

For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.

For his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup.

For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.—Iran-Contra connection.

For coverage of the aftermath of the Challenger explosion, which included stories that identified serious flaws in the shuttle's design and in the administration of America's space program.

For their investigation into subsidized housing in East Texas, which uncovered patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in public housing across the United States and led to significant reforms.

For his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies in IRS processing of tax returns-reporting that eventually inspired major changes in IRS procedures and prompted the agency to make a public apology to U.S. taxpayers.

For his series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an occupation.

For reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import.

For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race.

For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.

For his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration.

For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.

For a series on farming damage to the environment.

For a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams.

For his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign.

For disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.

For their series "Auditing the Internal Revenue Service," which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws.

For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.

For his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.

For their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972.

For his reporting of American policy decision-making during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

For their documentary on the life and death of a 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton: "The Making of a Terrorist."

For disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynesworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court.

For his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them.

For his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967.

For his series of articles, "Crisis in the Courts."

For their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas.

For his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.

For his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.

For his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

For his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.

For their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.

For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.

For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States.

For a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.

For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance.

For his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

For his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

For his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.

For publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the U.S. Navy Department, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an American citizen, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department. This is in the best tradition of American journalism.

For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover.

For his article called "The Great Deception," dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea.

For his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October, 1950.

For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.

For consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington.

For his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime.

For his articles on "A State Department Security Case" published in I947.