Топик: Pulizer Prize

For his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community.

BEAT REPORTING George Dohrman of St. Paul Pioneer Press

For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men’s basketball program at the University of Minnesota.

NATIONAL REPORTING Staff of Wall Street Journal

For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING Mark Schoofs of Village Voice

For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa.

FEATURE WRITING J.R. Moehringer of Los Angeles Times

For his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.

COMMENTARY Paul A. Gigot of Wall Street Journal

For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.

CRITICISM Henry Allen of Washington Post

For his fresh and authoritative writing on photography.

EDITORIAL WRITING John C. Bersia of Orlando Sentinel

For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.

EDITORIAL CARTOONING

Joel Pett of Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

Photo Staff of Denver Rocky Mountain News

For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School

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FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins of Washington Post

For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees.

FICTION

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

DRAMA

Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies