Skip to main content
The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in National Reporting

Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by Maurice Possley and Steve Mills

For their investigation of a 1989 execution in Texas that strongly suggests an innocent man was killed by lethal injection.

Winners

Prize Winner in National Reporting in 2007:

Charlie Savage

For his revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws. National Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 2007:

Les Zaitz, Jeff Kosseff and Bryan Denson

For their disclosure of mismanagement and other abuses in federally-subsidized programs for disabled workers, stirring congressional action.

The Jury

Philip F. Bennett(chair )

managing editor

Ann Cooper

director, broadcast program and professor of professional practice

J.J. Goldberg

editor in chief

Michele Melendez

national correspondent

Renee Schoof

national security editor

Winners in National Reporting

2006

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau

For their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty.
2005

Walt Bogdanich

For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings.
2004

Staff

For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries.
2003

Alan Miller and Kevin Sack

For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed "The Widow Maker," that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category to the National Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
See All National Reporting

2007 Prize Winners

Public Service

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.
Breaking News Reporting

Staff

For its skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains, telling the tragic story both in print and online.
See All 2007 Winners