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| PUBLIC SERVICE | New York Times For "A Nation Challenged," a special section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, which coherently and comprehensively covered the tragic events, profiled the victims, and tracked the developing story, locally and globally. | |
| BREAKING NEWS REPORTING | Staff of Wall Street Journal For its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attacks on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future. | |
| INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen of Washington Post For a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system. | |
| EXPLANATORY REPORTING | New York Times Staff For its informed and detailed reporting, before and after the September 11th attacks on America, that profiled the global terrorism network and the threats it posed. | |
| BEAT REPORTING | Gretchen Morgenson of New York Times For her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage. | |
| NATIONAL REPORTING | Washington Post Staff For its comprehensive coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments. | |
| INTERNATIONAL REPORTING | Barry Bearak of New York Times For his deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan. | |
| FEATURE WRITING | Barry Siegel of Los Angeles Times For his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case. | |
| COMMENTARY | Thomas Friedman of New York Times For his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. | |
| CRITICISM | Justin Davidson of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. For his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence. | |
| EDITORIAL WRITING | Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen of Los Angeles Times For their comprehensive and powerfully-written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets. | |
| EDITORIAL CARTOONING | Clay Bennett of Christian Science Monitor | |
| BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY | New York Times Staff For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath. | |
| FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY | New York Times Staff For its photographs chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. | |
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| FICTION | Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) | |
| DRAMA | Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks | |
| HISTORY | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | |
| BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) | |
| POETRY | Practical Gods by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books) | |
| GENERAL NON-FICTION | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster) | |
| MUSIC | Ice Field by Henry Brant Premiered by the San Francisco Symphony on December 12, 2001 at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA. | |
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| MEMBERS | The board overseeing the prizes. | |
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