Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by John McCormick, Marie Dillon and Bruce Dold
For their persistent campaign to reform statehouse ethics, drawing on corruption in the governor's office to drive home their successful call for legislative action.
Winners
Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 2009:
Mark Mahoney
For his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know.
Editorial Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 2009:
Charles Lane
For his succinct and insightful editorials on the nation's economic collapse, zeroing in on problems and offering solutions with a steady voice of reason.
The Jury
The Jury
Cynthia Tucker(chair )*
editorial page editor
Robert J. Caldwell
editorial page editor
Nanya Friend
editor and publisher
Jeffrey Good*
editor
Jonathan Wolman
editor and publisher
Winners in Editorial Writing
No award
No award.
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.
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.
2009 Prize Winners
Patrick Farrell
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
W.S. Merwin
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory.
Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon
For the exposure of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip amid lax enforcement of regulations, leading to changes in policy and improved safety conditions.
Staff
For its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on its Web site and then developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports.