Finalist: The Wall Street Journal , by Rebecca Smith
For her prescient and knowledgeable reporting on the electricity shortage faced by the U.S., and the country's failed efforts to deregulate energy.
Winners
Prize Winner in Beat Reporting in 2001:
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Beat Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Beat Reporting in 2001:
Virginia Ellis
For her persistent reporting that exposed extensive financial improprieties by a state insurance commissioner, who later resigned.
The Jury
The Jury
Amanda Bennett(chair )
managing editor
Gilbert Bailon
vice president/executive editor
Geoff Gevalt
managing editor
John B. Johnson
managing editor
William H. Millsaps Jr.
executive editor
Sharon Rosenhause
editor of PM Chronicles
Matthew V. Storin
editor
Winners in Beat Reporting
George Dohrmann
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik
For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
Linda Greenhouse
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
Byron Acohido
For his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements.
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.