Finalist: The Orlando Sentinel , by Jane Healy
For her persuasive heavily reported editorials on development projects that imperiled Florida's wetlands and wildlife.
Winners
Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 2007:
Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans
For their compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.
Editorial Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 2007:
Sebastian Mallaby
For his eloquent, rigorously researched editorials on rising inequality in America.
The Jury
The Jury
Stan Tiner(chair )
editor
Paul Anger
vice president and editor
Mark Bowden
editor
Lorraine Branham
director, School of Journalism
Erik Lukens
editorial page editor
Winners in Editorial Writing
Rick Attig and Doug Bates
For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital.
Tom Philp
For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
William R. Stall
For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
Cornelia Grumman
For her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty.
2007 Prize Winners
The 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.
Staff
For its skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains, telling the tragic story both in print and online.
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, and Rick Loomis
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.
Renée C. Byer
For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer.