Finalist: The Detroit News , by Betty DeRamus

For her columns about the problems and promise of urban America.

Winners

Prize Winner in Commentary in 1993:

For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami. Commentary

Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 1993:

For his impressionistic accounts of his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood before and after the riots.

Editor and Co-Publisher, Riverdale Press, Bronx, N.Y.

Dean of the Faculty, Poynter Institute For Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Columnist, Orange County (Calif.) Register

Editorial Writer, Birmingham (Ala.) News

Senior Vice President and Editor, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press

1992

For her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics.

1991

For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.

1990

For his sports columns.

1989

For his provocative columns on local and national affairs.

Beat Reporting

For often exclusive coverage of General Motors' management turmoil.

Biography

Commentary

For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.

Criticism

For his book reviews.