For its richly detailed coverage of the first day of fires that ravaged Southern California.

For his consistently impressive work during the year, much of it on deadline.

For photographs of the devastation left by fires that blazed through Southern California.

For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby (Originally submitted in Feature Photography and returned by the Board to that category.)

For its year-long examination of child homicide, which focused individual attention on 61 children and the circumstances of their deaths.

For the work of Eileen Welsome, which related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.