For a distinguished example of local reporting of breaking news, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to the Los Angeles Times Staff for its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.

Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Ardith Hilliard of the Los Angeles Times with the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: John Dennis Harrigan, publisher of The News and Sentinel, a Colebrook, NH weekly, for his coverage of a shooting spree that left five dead, including his newspaper's managing editor; and Mike McAlary of the Daily News, New York, NY, for his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse (moved by the Board to the Commentary category).