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2001 Pulitzer Prize Board
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Front row: J. Byrd, M. Pride, R. Pederson, E. Seaton, S. Rowe, L. Boccardi, D. Goodwin; Back row: T. Goldstein, S. Topping, A. Barnes, W. Safire, W. Ketter, H. Gates, D. Graham, R. Oppel, J. Carroll, H. Gates, G. Rupp, P. Steiger --(photo credit: Joe Pineiro)

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Edward Seaton, chair; Seymour Topping, administrator

Staff

Citation
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.
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Publication
The Miami Herald

Alan Diaz

Citation
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
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Publication
Associated Press

David Levering Lewis

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Categories: Biography
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Publication
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

David Cay Johnston

Citation
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
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Categories: Beat Reporting
Publication
The New York Times

Staff

Publication
The Washington Post
Citation
For its comprehensive series on the AIDS plague in Africa, which revealed how the devastating epidemic was affected by political, commercial and bureaucratic forces far removed from the lives of most of its victims.
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Categories: Public Service

Staff

Publication
Associated Press
Citation
For its accurate and comprehensive coverage of the 2000 presidential election, particularly during those 36 uncertain days when much of the nation looked to the AP for disciplined, 24-hour reporting on the close votes and recounts.
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Categories: Public Service

Bruce Smith

Publication
The Other Lover
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
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Categories: Poetry

Sydney Lea

Publication
Pursuit of a Wound
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
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Categories: Poetry

Staff

Publication
Chicago Tribune
Citation
For its comprehensive review of death penalty cases in Texas and nine other states that pointed out fundamental flaws in the system by which Americans are executed for crimes.
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Categories: National Reporting