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| PUBLIC SERVICE | Wall Street Journal For its creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America. | |
| BREAKING NEWS REPORTING | Staff of Oregonian, Portland For its skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains, telling the tragic story both in print and online. | |
| INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | Brett Blackledge of Birmingham (Ala.) News For his exposure of cronyism and corruption in the state’s two-year college system, resulting in the dismissal of the chancellor and other corrective action. (Moved by the Board from the Public Service category.) | |
| EXPLANATORY REPORTING | Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, reporters, and Rick Loomis, photographer, of Los Angeles Times For their richly portrayed reports on the world’s distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials. | |
| LOCAL REPORTING | Debbie Cenziper of Miami Herald For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions. | |
| NATIONAL REPORTING | Charlie Savage of Boston Globe For his revelations that President Bush often used “signing statements” to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws. | |
| INTERNATIONAL REPORTING | Staff of Wall Street Journal For its sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China’s booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution. | |
| FEATURE WRITING | Andrea Elliott of New York Times For her intimate, richly textured portrait of an immigrant imam striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America. | |
| COMMENTARY | Cynthia Tucker of Atlanta Journal-Constitution For her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community. | |
| CRITICISM | Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater. | |
| EDITORIAL WRITING | Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News For their compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation. | |
| EDITORIAL CARTOONING | Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. For his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation. | |
| BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY | Oded Balilty of Associated Press For his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank. | |
| FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY | Renée C. Byer of Sacramento Bee For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer. | |
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| FICTION | The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) | |
| DRAMA | Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire | |
| HISTORY | The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) | |
| BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday) | |
| POETRY | Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) | |
| GENERAL NON-FICTION | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) | |
| MUSIC | Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman | |
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| SPECIAL CITATION | John Coltrane A posthumous special citation for his masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz. | |
| SPECIAL CITATION | Ray Bradbury A special citation for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy. | |
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| MEMBERS | The board overseeing the prizes. | |
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