For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).

Awarded to Alan Miller and Kevin Sack of Los Angeles Times 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.)

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Alan Miller (center) and Kevin Sack (right) with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in this category were: the Chicago Tribune Staff for its engrossing exploration of the fall of Arthur Andersen, a once proud accounting firm, Anne Hull of The Washington Post for "Rim of the New World," her masterful accounts of young immigrants coming of age in the American South, and The New York Times Staff for its tenaciously reported and clearly written stories that exposed and explained corruption in corporate America.