- ''', '' Baltimore Evening Sun '', for an account of Brain Surgery .
- ''', '' Miami Herald '', for "Zepp's Last Stand."
- ''', '' Village Voice '', for her account of the death of actress-model Dorothy Stratten .
- ''', Associated Press , for an article profiling the federal bureaucracy.
- ''', '' The New York Times '', for her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with Toxic Shock Syndrome .
- ''', '' The Seattle Times '', for "Making It Fly," his 29,000-word account of the development, manufacture, and marketing of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
- ''', '' The Baltimore Sun '', for her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
- ''', '' St. Paul Pioneer Press And Dispatch '', for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression .
- ''', '' The Philadelphia Inquirer '', for his illuminating profile of life aboard an Aircraft Carrier .
- ''', '' St. Paul Pioneer Press And Dispatch '', for her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.
- ''', '' The Philadelphia Inquirer '', for his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa ."
- ''', '' Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph '', for a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
- ''', St. Petersburg Times , for a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
- ''', '' The New York Times '', for "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship.
- ''', '' The Washington Post '', for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
- ''', '' The New York Times '', for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago 's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
- ''', '' The Wall Street Journal '', for his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C. , and their determination to survive and prosper.
- ''', '' The New York Times '', for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
- ''', '' The Baltimore Sun '', for her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
- ''', '' 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.
- ''', '' The Wall Street Journal '', for his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
- ''', '' 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.
- ''', '' The Oregonian '' ( Portland, Oregon ), for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
- ''', '' Los Angeles Times '', for his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
- ''', '' Los Angeles Times '', for "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
- ''not awarded''
- ''' of '' Chicago Tribune '', for her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Ill.
- ''' of '' Rocky Mountain News '', for his poignant story on a Marine Major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.
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