Nominations 2014 »
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The Boston Globe
For its exhaustive and empathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the ensuing manhunt that enveloped the city, using photography and a range of digital tools to capture the full impact of the tragedy. |
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The Arizona Republic
For its compelling coverage of a fast-moving wildfire that claimed the lives of 19 firefighters and destroyed more than a hundred homes, using an array of journalistic tools to tell the story. |
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The Washington Post
For its alert, in-depth coverage of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, employing a mix of platforms to tell a developing story with accuracy and sensitivity. |
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Nominations 2013 »
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The Denver Post
For its comprehensive coverage of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured 58, using journalistic tools, from Twitter and Facebook to video and written reports, both to capture a breaking story and provide context. |
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The Denver Post
For its vivid coverage of a wildfire that destroyed more than 300 homes, combining on-the-ground reporting with imaginative use of digital tools, including a before-and-after interactive feature that helped displaced fire victims determine the fate of their homes before there was official notification. |
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Hartford Courant
For its complete and sensitive coverage of the shooting massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and 6 adults, using digital tools as well as traditional reporting to tell the story quickly while portraying the stunned community\u2019s grief. |
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Nominations 2012 »
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The Tuscaloosa News
For its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado, using social media as well as traditional reporting to provide real-time updates, help locate missing people and produce in-depth print accounts even after power disruption forced the paper to publish at another plant 50 miles away. |
| Gannett Company |
For its comprehensive coverage of the mass shooting that killed six and wounded 13, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an exemplary use of journalistic tools, from Twitter to video to written reports and features, to tell an unfolding story. |
| Capital Newspapers |
Wisconsin State Journal
For its energetic coverage of 27 days of around-the-clock protests in the State Capitol over collective bargaining rights, using an array of journalistic tools to capture one breaking development after another. |
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Nominations 2010 »
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The Seattle Times
For its comprehensive coverage, in print and online, of the shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee house and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect. |
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The Star-Ledger
For its sweeping coverage of 44 arrests in a widespread corruption scandal that snared local officials, several religious leaders and others. |
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The Washington Post
For its compelling coverage of an Army psychiatrist, with long ties to Washington, who killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a Texas military base. |
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Nominations 2009 »
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Houston Chronicle
For taking full advantage of online technology and its newsroom expertise to become a lifeline to the city when Hurricane Ike struck, providing vital minute-by-minute updates on the storm, its flood surge and its aftermath. |
| Lee Enterprises |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For its creative and aggressive coverage, both online and in print, of a city hall shooting that left six people dead, displaying an exemplary blend of speed and rigor in its reporting. |
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The New York Times
For its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on its Web site and then developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports. |
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Nominations 2008 »
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| Idaho Statesman |
For its tenacious coverage of the twists and turns in the scandal involving the state's senator, Larry Craig. |
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The New York Times
For its swift, penetrating coverage of a fire in the Bronx that killed nine persons, eight of them children. |
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The Washington Post
For its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online. |
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Nominations 2006 »
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The Times-Picayune
For its courageous and aggressive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, overcoming desperate conditions facing the city and the newspaper. |
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For its swift and rigorous accounts of a shooting rampage by a prisoner who seized a deputy sheriff's gun and killed a judge and three others. |
| Tribune Company |
Sun-Sentinel
For its clear, cohesive and enterprising coverage of Hurricane Wilma after it battered a region still recovering from major storms the previous year. |
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Nominations 2005 »
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The Star-Ledger
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey\u2019s governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover. |
| Charlotte Sun |
For its heroic coverage of Hurricane Charley after it destroyed the homes of employees and cut the paper\u2019s power supply and phone service. |
| Tribune Company |
Sun-Sentinel
For its enterprising and wide-ranging coverage, under difficult conditions, of four hurricanes that battered Florida over a six-week span. |
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Nominations 2004 »
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The Miami Herald
For its immediate and distinctive search for the cause of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. |
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Los Angeles Times
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California. |
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Newsday
For its enterprising coverage of the summertime blackout that stretched over a vast area of the United States and cut the paper's own power supply as deadlines loomed. |
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Nominations 2003 »
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The Eagle-Tribune
For its stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River. |
| The Baltimore Sun Media Group |
The Baltimore Sun
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the sniper killings that terrorized the Washington-Baltimore region. |
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The Seattle Times
For its enterprising coverage of the many local connections to the ex-soldier and his teenage companion arrested in the sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., region. |
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Nominations 2002 »
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The Wall Street Journal
For its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future. |
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New York Daily News
For its vivid and detailed on-scene coverage of the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City. |
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The New York Times
For its eloquent and precise coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks that captured the gravity, drama and historic dimension of the day's events. |
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Nominations 2001 »
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The Miami Herald
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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The Star-Ledger
For its graphic and highly detailed coverage, despite restricted access, of the dormitory fire at Seton Hall University that killed three students and injured 58 others. |
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Los Angeles Times
For its compelling and resourceful coverage of every aspect of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 off the California coast, which killed 88 passengers. |
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Nominations 2000 »
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The Denver Post
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School. |
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The News & Observer
For its comprehensive coverage of the destruction in the state caused by Hurricane Floyd. |
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Nominations 1999 »
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Hartford Courant
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself. |
| Jonesboro Sun |
For its aggressive yet responsible coverage of a shooting at a local middle school in which two boys killed a teacher and four classmates and wounded 10 others. |
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The Miami Herald
For its coverage of a 12-year-old boy's electrocution at a county bus shelter and the breaking news developments in the subsequent investigation of the shelter's faulty wiring, which likely caused the boy's death. |
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Nominations 1998 »
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| John Dennis Harrigan |
For his coverage of a shooting spree that left five dead, including his newspaper's managing editor. |
| Mike McAlary |
For reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse. (Moved by the Board to the Commentary category.) |
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Los Angeles Times
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood. |
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Nominations 1997 »
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
[Spot News Reporting] For its powerful narrative coverage of the armed confrontation between police and philanthropist John DuPont following a murder at his estate. |
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The St. Petersburg Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its thorough and balanced reporting of the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a young black man by a white police officer and the rioting that followed. |
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Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath. |
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Nominations 1996 »
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| Robert D. McFadden |
[Spot News Reporting] For his highly skilled writing and reporting on deadline during the year. |
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The Eagle-Tribune
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of a fire that leveled a local textile factory, the city's largest employer, and its devastating effects on the community. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of the local and global impact of the purchase of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. by the Walt Disney Company. |
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Nominations 1995 »
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| Rocky Mountain News |
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of a deadly wildfire that killed 14 firefighters, the worst disaster of its kind in Colorado' s history. |
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The New York Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of the city's police department as it was rocked by charges of corruption in a Harlem precinct. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its reporting on January 17, 1994, of the chaos and devastation in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake. |
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Nominations 1994 »
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Nominated Work |
| Robert D. McFadden |
[Spot News Reporting] For his consistently impressive work during the year, much of it on deadline. |
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The New York Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its richly detailed coverage of the first day of fires that ravaged Southern California. |
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Nominations 1993 »
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The Miami Herald
[Spot News Reporting] For its sensitive reporting of the failed legal battle fought by parents of a child born without a brain to donate the child's organs before her death. |
| The Spokesman-Review |
[Spot News Reporting] For detailed, often exclusive reporting of an 11-day clash in Northern Idaho between an armed white separatist and 300 law enforcement officers. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For balanced, comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots. |
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Nominations 1992 »
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of a helicopter crash in a local schoolyard that killed U.S. Senator John Heinz and six others. |
| The Martha's Vineyard Gazette LLC |
Vineyard Gazette
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of the destruction to the island community of Martha's Vineyard by Hurricane Bob. |
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Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For coverage of a midnight subway derailment in Manhattan that left five passengers dead and more than 200 injured. |
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Nominations 1991 »
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The Miami Herald
[Spot News Reporting] For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders. |
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The Detroit News
[Spot News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the collision of two jets at the city's Metropolitan Airport. |
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Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For detailed coverage of a Bronx social club fire that was caused by arson and claimed 87 lives. |
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Nominations 1990 »
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San Jose Mercury News
For its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath. |
| The State |
[General News Reporting] For its extensive and compelling coverage of the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo. |
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The Roanoke Times
[General News Reporting] For its thorough and balanced coverage of a statewide strike by the United Mine Workers against the Pittston Coal Group. |
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Nominations 1988 »
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The Eagle-Tribune
[General News Reporting] For an investigation that revealed serious flaws in the Massachusetts prison furlough system and led to significant statewide reforms. |
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Montgomery Advertiser
[General News Reporting] For its compelling investigation of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which prompted legislation to combat the problem. |
| Sam Stanton |
[General News Reporting] For his reporting on Governor Evan Mecham's turbulent first year in office. |
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
[General News Reporting] For sustained coverage of an 11-day riot by Cuban inmates at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. |
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The Charlotte Observer
[General News Reporting] For revealing misuse of funds by the PTL television ministry through persistent coverage conducted in the face of a massive campaign by PTL to discredit the newspaper. |
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Nominations 1988 »
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The Eagle-Tribune
[General News Reporting] For an investigation that revealed serious flaws in the Massachusetts prison furlough system and led to significant statewide reforms. |
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Montgomery Advertiser
[General News Reporting] For its compelling investigation of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which prompted legislation to combat the problem. |
| Sam Stanton |
[General News Reporting] For his reporting on Governor Evan Mecham's turbulent first year in office. |
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
[General News Reporting] For sustained coverage of an 11-day riot by Cuban inmates at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. |
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The Charlotte Observer
[General News Reporting] For revealing misuse of funds by the PTL television ministry through persistent coverage conducted in the face of a massive campaign by PTL to discredit the newspaper. |
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Nominations 1987 »
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Akron Beacon Journal
[General News Reporting] For its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by a European financier. |
| John Woestendiek |
[General News Reporting] For outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder. |
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The Orange County Register
[General News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the Cerritos air disaster, a midair collision of a jetliner and a private plane on August 31, 1986. |
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Nominations 1986 »
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| Edna Buchanan |
[General News Reporting] For her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting. |
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The Dallas Morning News
[General News Reporting] For its comprehensive and compelling coverage, under deadline pressure, of the crash of Delta flight 191 on August 2, 1985. |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
[General News Reporting] For its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the MOVE siege and its tragic aftermath. |
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Nominations 1985 »
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Nominated Work |
| Thomas Turcol |
[General News Reporting] For City Hall coverage which exposed the corruption of a local economic development official. |
| Jonathan Kaufman |
[General News Reporting] For his series on neighborhood activism in Boston |
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Independent Record
[General News Reporting] For its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the worst forest fire in Helena's history. |
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