Finalist: St. Petersburg Times , by Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore and photographer Edmund D. Fountain
For their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Florida reform school for boys and sparked remedial action.
Winners
Prize Winner in Local Reporting in 2010:
Raquel Rutledge
For her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers.
Local Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Local Reporting in 2010:
Dave Philipps
For his painstaking stories on the spike in violence within a battered combat brigade returning to Fort Carson after bloody deployments to Iraq, leading to increased mental health care for soldiers.
The Jury
The Jury
Andrew Donohue
editor
Debbie Hiott
managing editor
Everett J. Mitchell(chair )
executive editor
Gabriel Escobar
metro editor
Joan Krauter
executive editor/vice president
Lynn Cunningham
online editor
Robyn Tomlin
executive editor
Winners in Local Reporting
Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick
For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials.
David Umhoefer
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
Debbie Cenziper
For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions.
2010 Prize Winners
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Hank Williams
For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
Rae Armantrout
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.