For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to The Wall Street Journal Staff 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.

Columbia University President George Rupp (right) presents Chris Adams and Carla Robbins, of The Wall Street Journal, with The 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Anne Hull of the St. Petersburg Times for her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life, and David Jackson and Cornelia Grumman of the Chicago Tribune for their series on the growing lucrative privatization of jails and foster programs for troubled youths.