1998 Pulitzer Prize
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A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:
[edit] Journalism
| Public Service |
Grand Forks Herald (N.D.) |
" ... for its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself..." |
| Beat Reporting |
Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times |
" ... for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court..." |
| Spot News Photography |
Martha Rial of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
" ... for her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi." |
| Breaking News Reporting |
Staff of the Los Angeles Times |
" ... for its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood, Los Angeles." |
| Commentary |
Mike McAlary of the New York Daily News |
" ... for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse." |
| Criticism |
Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times |
" ... for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature." |
| Editorial Cartooning |
Stephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press (Neptune City, New Jersey) |
| Editorial Writing |
Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly journal |
" ... for his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents." |
| Explanatory Reporting |
Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune |
" ... for his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people." |
| Feature Photography |
Clarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times |
" ... for his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs." |
| Feature Writing |
Thomas French of the St. Petersburg Times |
" ... for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders and eventual capture of Oba Chandler." |
| International Reporting |
Staff of The New York Times |
" ... for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. |
| Investigative Reporting |
Gary Cohn and Will Englund of The Baltimore Sun |
" ... for their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled." |
| National Reporting |
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News |
" ... for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms." |
[edit] Letters
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[edit] Special Awards and Citations
- Special Citation
- George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
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