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front row left to right: E. Alexander, T. Shelby, J. Dehli, K. Willey, R. Beck, E. Ramshaw, M. Pride, G. Collins; back row left to right: J. Diaz, N. Brown, A. Marqués, J. Daniszewski, K. Boo, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn, R. Blau (absent: L. Bollinger, S. Coll)

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Randell Beck, Joyce Dehli and Keven Ann Willey, chairs; Mike Pride, administrator

Adam Haslett

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Imagine Me Gone
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For the quiet and compassionate saga of a family whose world is shaped by mental illness and the challenges and joys of caring for each other.
Publisher
Little, Brown
Tags: 2017
Categories: Fiction

The Orlando Sentinel Staff

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For coverage of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, including middle-of-the-night reports as party-goers hid and police prepared to storm the building and subsequent work that took readers inside the club and humanized the victims.
Tags: 2017

Staff

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For relentless coverage of the “Ghost Ship” fire, which killed 36 people at a warehouse party, and for reporting after the tragedy that exposed the city’s failure to take actions that might have prevented it.
Tags: 2017
Location
Oakland, CA
Publication
East Bay Times

Houston Chronicle

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For exposing the grave injustice of arbitrary cost-cutting by the State of Texas that denied tutoring, counseling and other vital special education services to families, hindering the futures of tens of thousands of children.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Public Service

Chicago Tribune

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For innovative and superbly written and illustrated reporting that not only checked perilous practices by pharmacies in dispensing prescription drugs but also prevented harm from happening in the first place.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Public Service

Jake May

Publication
The Flint Journal
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For striking, wonderfully conceived photographs from Flint’s contaminated-water crisis that told a challenging story in human terms.
Location
Flint, MI
Tags: 2017
Categories: Feature Photography

Katie Falkenberg

Publication
Los Angeles Times
Citation
For a photo essay from the front lines of Brazil’s war on Zika that showed the vulnerability, fear and love of mothers coping with the crisis.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Feature Photography

E. Jason Wambsgans

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For a superb portrayal of a 10-year-old boy and his mother striving to put the boy’s life back together after he survived a shooting in Chicago.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Feature Photography
Publication
Chicago Tribune