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The 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Beat Reporting

Finalist: The New York Times , by Barry Meier

For his original, strongly documented stories on a flawed heart-defibrillator that imperiled the safety of unwitting patients.

Winners

Prize Winner in Beat Reporting in 2006:

Dana Priest

For her persistent, painstaking reports on secret "black site" prisons and other controversial features of the government's counterterrorism campaign. Beat Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Beat Reporting in 2006:

Jerry Mitchell

For his relentless and masterly stories on the successful prosecution of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964.

The Jury

Rick Rodriguez(chair )

executive editor

Nancy Conway

editor

Michael Days

editor

Dawn Garcia

deputy director

Kate Marymont

executive editor and vice president/news

Arnie Robbins

editor

Mark Russell

managing editor

Winners in Beat Reporting

2005

Amy Dockser Marcus

For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
2004

Daniel Golden

For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
2003

Diana K. Sugg

For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.
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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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