Finalist: The Washington Post , by Barton Gellman
For his authoritative and provocative coverage of the search for forbidden weapons in Iraq.
Winners
Prize Winner in Beat Reporting in 2004:
Daniel Golden
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
Beat Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Beat Reporting in 2004:
Ellen Barry
For her fresh, thoroughly reported and powerfully written stories about neglected people with mental health problems in Massachusetts.
The Jury
The Jury
Milton Coleman(chair )
deputy managing editor
Felice Belman
Sunday editor
Carolina Garcia
executive editor
Scott R. Gillespie
managing editor
David Risser
executive editor
Kathleen Rutledge
editor
Diana K. Sugg*
medical reporter
Winners in Beat Reporting
Diana K. Sugg
For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.
Gretchen Morgenson
For her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage.
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
George Dohrmann
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
2004 Prize Winners
Daniel Golden
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
Staff
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.