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| PUBLIC SERVICE | Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger For its successful campaign supporting Governor Winter in his legislative battle for reform of Mississippi's public education system. | |
| LOCAL GENERAL OR SPOT NEWS REPORTING | Editorial Staff of Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel For its courageous and resourceful coverage of a devastating flood in March 1982. | |
| LOCAL INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALIZED REPORTING | Loretta Tofani of Washington Post For her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland, Detention Center. | |
| NATIONAL REPORTING | Boston Globe of Boston Globe For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race. | |
| INTERNATIONAL REPORTING | Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins of New York Times and Washington Post (respectively) For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath. | |
| FEATURE WRITING | Nan Robertson of New York Times For her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome. | |
| COMMENTARY | Claude Sitton of Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer | |
| CRITICISM | Manuela Hoelterhoff of Wall Street Journal For her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects. | |
| EDITORIAL WRITING | Miami Herald Editorial Board of Miami Herald For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials. | |
| EDITORIAL CARTOONING | Richard Locher of Chicago Tribune | |
| SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY | Bill Foley of Associated Press For his moving series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp in Beirut. | |
| FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY | James B. Dickman of Dallas Times Herald For his telling photographs of life and death in El Salvador. | |
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| FICTION | The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) | |
| DRAMA | 'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman | |
| HISTORY | The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press) | |
| BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Growing Up by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed) | |
| POETRY | Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin) | |
| GENERAL NON-FICTION | Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin) | |
| MUSIC | Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982 in Alice Tully Hall, New York City. | |
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