1992 Finalists

Public Service

Dayton (Ohio) Daily News

For extensive reporting by Mike Casey and Russell Carollo that revealed gross national neglect of worker safety conditions and regulations and prompted workplace-reform legislation.

The Washington Post

For articles exploring the causes and human consequences of the epidemic of gun violence in the capital area that claimed more than 3,000 lives in five years.

Spot News Reporting

Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For its coverage of a helicopter crash in a local schoolyard that killed U.S. Senator John Heinz and six others.

Staff of Vineyard Gazette, an Edgartown, MA weekly

For its coverage of the destruction to the island community of Martha's Vineyard by Hurricane Bob.

Investigative Reporting

Jennifer Hyman of Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY

For an investigation that revealed secret links between the Rochester Institute of Technology and the CIA.

Staff of Greenville (SC) News

For its persistent investigation of financial abuses at a University of South Carolina foundation, which prompted significant reforms.

Explanatory Journalism

James O'Byrne, Mark Schleifstein and G. Andrew Boyd of Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA

For "Louisiana in Peril," articles about the toxic waste and pollution that threaten the future of the state.

Rob Carson, Geff Hinds and Suki Dardarian of Morning News Tribune, Tacoma, WA

For comprehensive coverage of a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful special initiative on the state's 1991 ballot that would have granted terminally ill individuals the right to have a physician end their lives.

Beat Reporting

Russ Conway of The Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence, MA

For his reporting about questionable business practices in professional hockey.

Gregg Jones of Arkansas Gazette, (now defunct) Little Rock, AR

For stories about the state's faltering rural health-care system.

National Reporting

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For their series "America: What Went Wrong?" which examined the public policy failures that have diminished the American middle class.

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times

For her coverage of national politics and its personalities.

International Reporting

Dudley Althaus of Houston Chronicle

For his articles on the causes of the cholera epidemic in Peru and Mexico.

Staff of Los Angeles Times

For its vivid and comprehensive coverage of the Soviet Union's collapse.

Feature Writing

Frank Bruni of Detroit Free Press

For his profile of a child molester that challenged many assumptions about sexual abuse.

Sheryl James of St. Petersburg Times

For her gripping account of the effort to transplant the organs of a dead boy and turn the tragedy of his death into a gift of life for others.

Commentary

Liz Balmaseda of The Miami Herald

For her columns about local Cuban-Americans and the issues affecting the immigrant community.

Robert Lipsyte of The New York Times

For his insightful commentary on the world of sports.

Criticism

Michael Feingold of The Village Voice, the New York City weekly

For his theater reviews.

Itabari Njeri of Los Angeles Times

For her essay on race and the messages of black nationalism.

Leslie Savan of The Village Voice, the New York City weekly

For her critical columns on advertising and the media.

Editorial Writing

Robert J. Gaydos of Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY

For his editorials on a variety of local and national issues.

Henry Bryan of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For his editorial campaign urging state support of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit System, the fourth largest mass-transit system in the nation.

Editorial Cartooning

Steve Benson of Morning News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. and the Arizona Republic

Ralph Dunagin of Orlando (FL) Sentinel

Spot News Photography

David C. Turnley of Detroit Free Press

For a photograph from the Persian Gulf War of a grieving American soldier sitting by the body of a slain friend.

Staff of Associated Press

For photographs of Albanian refugees stranded in Italy.

Feature Photography

Paul Kuroda of Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA

For his photographs of the dangerous journey of illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexican border.

Bill Snead of The Washington Post

For his photographs depicting the harshness and misery of the Kurdish refugee camps.