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The 1987 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Explanatory Journalism

Finalist: The Washington Post , by Leon Dash

For his six-part series on teen-age pregnancy, which examined in compelling detail the complex realities behind a national problem.

Winners

Prize Winner in Explanatory Journalism in 1987:

Jeff Lyon and Peter Gorner

For their series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment. Explanatory Journalism

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Explanatory Journalism in 1987:

Georgia Tasker

For her special report on the vanishing rain forest, which detailed the rapid destruction of one of the earth's oldest and most fragile ecosystems.

The Jury

Gene Foreman(Chair)

Managing Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Michael F. Foley

Managing Editor, St. Petersburg Times

William German

Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

Robert G. McGruder

Deputy Managing Editor, Detroit Free Press

Susan Miller

Director of Editorial Development, Scripps Howard Newspapers

Winners in Explanatory Journalism

1986

Staff

For a six-part comprehensive series on the Strategic Defense Initiative, which explored the scientific, political and foreign policy issues involved in "Star Wars."
1985

Jon Franklin

For his seven-part series "The Mind Fixers," about the new science of molecular psychiatry.
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1987 Prize Winners

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