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| PUBLIC SERVICE | Anchorage Daily News For reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms. | |
| GENERAL NEWS REPORTING | Staff of Louisville Courier-Journal For its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy. | |
| INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | Bill Dedman of Atlanta Journal and Constitution For his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies. | |
| EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM | David Hanners, reporter, William Snyder, photographer, and Karen Blessen, artist of Dallas Morning News For their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety. | |
| SPECIALIZED REPORTING | Edward Humes of Orange County Register For his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California. | |
| NATIONAL REPORTING | Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of Philadelphia Inquirer For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses. | |
| INTERNATIONAL REPORTING | Bill Keller of New York Times For resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R. | |
| INTERNATIONAL REPORTING | Glenn Frankel of Washington Post For sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East. | |
| FEATURE WRITING | David Zucchino of Philadelphia Inquirer For his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa." | |
| COMMENTARY | Clarence Page of Chicago Tribune For his provocative columns on local and national affairs. | |
| CRITICISM | Michael Skube of News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C. For his writing about books and other literary topics. | |
| EDITORIAL WRITING | Lois Wille of Chicago Tribune For her editorials on a variety of local issues. | |
| EDITORIAL CARTOONING | Jack Higgins of Chicago Sun-Times | |
| SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY | Ron Olshwanger, a free-lance photographer For a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building. | |
| FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY | Manny Crisostomo of Detroit Free Press For his series of photographs. depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit. | |
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| FICTION | Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) | |
| DRAMA | The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein | |
| HISTORY | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press) | |
| HISTORY | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster) | |
| BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) | |
| POETRY | New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) | |
| GENERAL NON-FICTION | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House) | |
| MUSIC | Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds Premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts. | |
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