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Finalist: The Philadelphia Inquirer , by Henry Bryan

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

Winners

Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 1992:

Maria Henson

For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms. Editorial Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 1992:

Robert J. Gaydos

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

The Jury

F. Gilman Spencer(Chair)

Editor, Denver Post

John Haile

Editor, Orlando Sentinel

Harold Jackson*

Editorial Writer and Columnist, Birmingham (Ala.) News

Marcia McQuern

President and Executive Editor, Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise

Bernard L. Stein*

Editor and Co-Publisher, Riverdale Press, Bronx, N.Y.

Winners in Editorial Writing

Thomas J. Hylton

For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.

Jane Healy

For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County.

1992 Prize Winners

Deborah Blum

For her series, "The Monkey Wars," which explored the complex ethical and moral questions surrounding primate research.