Investigative Reporting Prize

Finalists:

The Charlotte Observer
Ames Alexander, Kerry Hall, Franco Ordonez,
Ted Mellnik and Peter St. Onge
"The Cruelest Cuts: The Human Cost of Bringing
Poultry to Your Table"

The Detroit Free Press
Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick and Detroit Free Press Staff
"A Mayor in Crisis"

The New York Times
David Barstow
"Message Machine"

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Patricia Sabatini and Len Boselovic
"Degree of Influence: Academic Corruption at West Virginia University"

ProPublica
Abrahm Lustgarten
"Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering
U.S. Water Supplies?"

Finalists:

The Nation
Joshua Kors
"Thanks for Nothing"

The New York Times
Walter Bogdanich and Jake Hooker
"A Toxic Pipeline"

The Palm Beach Post
Tom Dubocq
"Palm Beach County's Culture of Corruption"

The Salt Lake Tribune
Loretta Tofani
"American Imports, Chinese Deaths"

The Washington Post
Dana Priest and Anne Hull
"The Other Walter Reed "

Finalists:

The Boston Globe
Walter V. Robinson, Michael Rezendes, Beth Healy, Francie Latour and Heather Allen
"Debtors' Hell"

The Los Angeles Times
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
"Transplant Patients at Risk"

The Miami Herald
Debbie Cenziper
"House of Lies"

The Seattle Times
Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo and Steve Miletich
"Your Courts, Their Secrets"

The Washington Post
Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen
"Harvesting Cash"

Finalists:

The Blade
Joshua Boak, James Drew, Steve Eder, Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Jim Tankersley and Mike Wilkinson
"Uncovering 'Coingate' "

The Copley News Service
Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer
"Randy 'Duke' Cunningham"

The Los Angeles Times
Evelyn Larrubia, Robin Fields and Jack Leonard
"Guardians for Profit"

The Washington Post
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
"The Abramoff Scandal"

The Washington Post
Dana Priest
"The CIA's Secret War Against Terrorism"

A special citation was also awarded to
Nicholas D. Kristoff, the New York Times for
"The Genocide in Darfur"

Finalists:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Donsky and Ken Foskett
"Wired for Waste"

The Atlantic Monthly
James Fallows
"Blind into Baghdad"

The Oregonian
Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett
"Unnecessary Epidemic"

The Seattle Times
Ken Armstrong, Florangela Davila and Justin Mayo
"The Empty Promise of an Equal Defense"

WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX
Brett Shipp and Mark Smith
"State of Denial"

A special citation was also awarded to Frontline and the BBC for "Ghosts of Rwanda."

Finalists:

The Dayton Daily News
Russell Carollo and Mei-Ling Hopgood
"Casualties of Peace"

Staff of the Gannett New Jersey Newspaper
"Profiting from Public Service"

The Los Angeles Times
Chuck Neubauer, Richard T. Cooper and Judy Pasterna
"The Senators' Sons"

The Washington Post
Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway
"Big Green"

WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN
Phil Williams and Bryan Staples
"Friends in High Places: Perks of Power"

Finalists:

The Dayton Daily News
Mike Wagner, Ben Sutherly, Laura Bischoff, Ken McCall, Dal Dempsey and Martha Hild
"Down on the Factory: Cheap Food, Hidden Cost"

The New York Times
David Cay Johnston
"Tax Cheats"

National Public Radio
Steve Inskeep
"Oruzgan Raid"

WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX
Brett Shipp and Mark Smith
"Fake Drugs, Real Lives"

The Wisconsin State Journal
Phil Brinkman, Dee J. Hall and Scott Milfred
"Corruption in the Wisconsin Capitol"

Finalists:

Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
Sumana Chatterjee and Susarsan Raghavan
"A Taste of Slavery"

The Los Angeles Times
Bob Drogin, Josh Meyer, Craig Pyes, William C. Rempel and Sebastian Rotella
"Revealing Terrorism"

The Los Angeles Times
David Willman
"The New FDA: Partnership With Deadly Risk"

The Orlando Sentinel
Sean Holton, et al.
"Exposing the Flaws"

The Washington Post
David S. Fallis, Craig Whitlock and April Witt
"A Blue Wall of Silence — False Confessions"

Finalists:

The Chicago Tribune
Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills
"The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois" and "State of Execution: The Death Penalty in Texas"

NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV)
Renee Ferguson
"Strip-Searched at O'Hare"

The Orange County Register
Mark Katches, William Heisel, Ronald Campbell, Sharon Henry, Michael Goulding, Rebecca Allen and Tracy Wood
"The Body Brokers"

ABC News, World News Tonight
Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Vic Walter, Jill Rackmill, David Scott, Dawn Goeb, Jud Marvin, Gary Fairman, John Detarzio, Dow Haynor, Stuart Schutzman, Paul Slavin and Paul Friedman
"The Money Trail"

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Andrew Schneider and Carol Smith
"Uncivil Action"

Finalists:

The Chicago Tribune
Ken Armstrong and Maurice J. Possley
"Trial & Error"

The Associated Press
Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Randy Herschaft and Martha Mendoza
"The Bridge at No Gun Ri"

The Toledo Blade
Sam Roe
"Deadly Alliance"

The Boston Globe
Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong
"Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill"

The Los Angeles Times
David G. Willman
"Rezulin: A Billion-Dollar Killer"

Finalists:

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
William Allen, Kim Bell, and Andrew Skolnick
"Health Care Behind Bars"

The Baltimore Sun
Will Englund and Gary Cohn
"The Shipbreakers"

The Wall Street Journal
Alix Freedman
"Population Bomb"

The Washington Post
Bart Gellman
"Shell Games: The Search for Iraq's Hidden Weapons"

Newsweek
Michael Isikoff
"President Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal"

Finalists:

The Cape Cod Times
Anne Brennan and William A. Mills
"Broken Trust: The Failed Cleanup at the Massachusetts Military Reservation"

The Chicago Sun-Times
Chuck Neubauer and Charles Nicodemus
"Investigation into Chicago City Hall Ethics Abuses"

The New York Times
Martin Gotttlieb, Kurt Eichenwald, Josh Barbanel and Tamar Lewin
"Health Care's Giant "

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Loretta Tofani and Jeffrey Fleishman
"Inside Tibet: A Country Tortured"

Finalists:

The Wall Street Journal
Jill Abramson, Helene Cooper, Phil Kuntz, Michael Moss, Glenn Simpson, Peter Waldman and John Wilke
"Foreign Contributions Riddle"

The Times Picayune
Chris Adams
"Of Pain and Gain"

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Elizabeth Marchak
"FAA: Safety Comes Second"

The Boston Globe
Charles Sennott
"Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons"

Finalists:

The New York Times
Ralph Blumenthal, Adam Bryant, Stephen Engleberg, Douglas Frantz and Matthew Wald
"The FAA, USAir and the ATR Turbo Prop Planes"

The Baltimore Sun
Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson
"Honduras"

The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sharon Schmickle and Tom Hamburger
"Who Owns the Law? West Publishing and the Courts"

The Sun-Sentinel
Fred Schulte and Jenni Bergal
"Profits from Pain"

Finalists:

ABC News, "Day One"
Walt Bogdanich
"Smoke Screen, Parts I and II"

The Dallas Morning News
Susan Feeney and Steve McGonigle
"Voting Rights: The Next Generation"

The Washington Post
Dan Morgan
"How Medicaid Grew"

The Chicago Sun-Times
Charles Neubauer, Mark Brown and Michael Briggs
"The Rostenkowski Investigation"

U.S. News & World Report
Joseph Shapiro, Penny Loeb, Susan Headden, Dave Bowermaster, Andrea Wright and Tom Toch
"Separate and Unequal"

Finalists:

Scripps Howard News Service
Lisa Hoffman and Andres Schneider
"Home Infusion: Medicine's New Vein of Gold"

The Washington Post
Athelia Knight
"Murder on Trial"

The Dallas Morning News
Randy Lee Loftis and Craig Flournoy
"Race and Risk: HUD's $67 Million Plan and Housing Deal"

Scripps Howard News Service
Andrew Schnieder and Peter Brown
"FDIC: Protector Turned Predator"

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ted Wendling and Dave Davis
"Lethal Doses: Radiation That Kills"