1994 Finalists

Public Service

Albuquerque Tribune

For the work of Eileen Welsome, which related the experiences of Americans who had been used knowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.

Chicago Tribune

For its year-long examination of child homicide, which focused individual attention on 61 children and the circumstances of their deaths.

Spot News Reporting

Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times

For his consistently impressive work during the year, much of it on deadline.

Staff of Los Angeles Times

For its richly detailed coverage of the first day of fires that ravaged Southern California.

Investigative Reporting

Dean Baquet and Jane Fritsch of The New York Times

For their reports that exposed costly fraud and mismanagement plaguing Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York state, America's largest not-for-profit health insurer.

Mark England and Darlene McCormick of Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald

For stories that revealed sexual abuse and other criminal acts within the local compound held by members of the Branch Davidian cult.

Explanatory Journalism

Dallas Morning News Team of The Dallas Morning News

For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.

Staff of Newsday, Long Island, NY

For its exhaustive investigation of breast cancer in the community, which included a probe of the environmental factors that may contribute to its spread.

Beat Reporting

Joan Connell of Newhouse News Service

For her reporting and writing on religion, ethics and morality.

John Woestendiek of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For his coverage of the promise and perils of city youth.

National Reporting

Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times

For her coverage of the Midwestern flood of 1993 and other stories.

Gilbert M. Gaul and Neill A. Borowski of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For their investigation that identified rampant abuses of America's nonprofit tax laws.

International Reporting

Carol J. Williams of Los Angeles Times

For her reporting from the former Yugoslavia.

Keith Richburg of The Washington Post

For his dispatches from Somalia.

Feature Writing

April Witt and Scott Higham of The Miami Herald

For their chilling portrait of seven suburban teenagers accused of murdering a friend.

Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

For his provocative profile of former President Richard Nixon.

Commentary

Jane Daugherty of Detroit Free Press

For her "Children First" columns, about issues affecting the youngest Americans.

Peter H. King of Los Angeles Times

For his columns about California, filed from around the state.

Criticism

Henry Allen of The Washington Post

For his imaginative and varied cultural criticism.

Matt Zoller Seitz of Dallas Observer, a weekly

For his lucid and insightful film criticism.

Editorial Writing

Jim Montgomery of Shreveport (LA) Journal

For a series of editorials examining the benefits and drawbacks of drug legalization.

Editorial Board of Birmingham (AL) News

For editorials urging the reform of Alabama's failing public school system.

Editorial Cartooning

Stephen R. Benson of The Arizona Republic

Lynn Johnston of Universal Press Syndicate

For a sequence in her comic strip "For Better or For Worse" that sensitively depicted a youth's disclosure of his homosexuality and its effect on his family and friends.

Spot News Photography

Kevin Carter, a free-lance photographer of The New York Times

For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby (Originally submitted in Feature Photography and returned by the Board to that category.)

Staff of Los Angeles Times

For photographs of the devastation left by fires that blazed through Southern California.

Feature Photography

Stan Grossfeld of The Boston Globe

For "The Exhausted Earth," a year-long series depicting the social, medical and environmental crises caused by the depletion of natural resources.

April Saul of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For "American Dreamers," her series of photographs of a working-class family coping with hardships while striving for a better life.

Staff of Associated Press

For its collection of images about the Middle East, including those that illustrate the turbulent lives of Arabs and Jews in Israel.