For a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to The New York Times Staff for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.

Columbia University President George Rupp (far right) presents (left to right) Tim Golden, Julia Preston, Craig Pyes, Sam Dillon and Steve Engelberg, of The New York Times, with the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times for his compelling, comprehensive and compassionate reporting from Africa and Asia, and John Pomfret of The Washington Post for his series, written under difficult conditions, on Laurent Kabila's brutal rise to power in Zaire.