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The 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Writing

Finalist: Sun Herald , by B. Marie Harris, Tony Biffle and Stan Tiner

For their passionate editorials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that empathized with victims while pleading for relief from the outside world.

Winners

Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 2006:

Rick Attig and Doug Bates

For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital. Editorial Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 2006:

Editorial Board

For its series of incisive editorials reversing the paper's long-held support of the death penalty.

The Jury

Ari Richter(chair )

opinion editor

Tom Fiedler

executive editor

Ellen Foley

editor

J.J. Goldberg

editor

Naedine Hazell

features editor

Winners in Editorial Writing

2005

Tom Philp

For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
2004

William R. Stall

For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
2002

Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen

For their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.
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2006 Prize Winners

Public Service

The Times-Picayune

For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)
Public Service

Sun Herald

For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
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