Finalist: The Kansas City Star , by Chris Lester and Jeffrey Spivak
For their series on the impact of spreading suburban growth.
Winners
Prize Winner in Explanatory Journalism in 1996:
Laurie Garrett
For her courageous reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak there. (The winner was entered and nominated in the International Reporting category and was moved by the Pulitzer Prize Board to Explanatory Journalism.)
Explanatory Journalism
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Explanatory Journalism in 1996:
Adam Bryant, Stephen Engelberg and Matthew L. Wald
For their coverage of deficient safety regulation of commuter air traffic.
Michael A. Hiltzik, David R. Olmos and Barbara Marsh
For reporting on problems stemming from the lack of regulation in California's booming managed health care industry and the implications for the rest of the country.
The Jury
The Jury
N. Christian Anderson(chair )
publisher
Bruce W. Kyse
executive editor
Don W. Robinson
editorial page editor
Harry M. Rosenfeld
editor
Janet S. Weaver
managing editor
Winners in Explanatory Journalism
Leon Dash and Lucian Perkins
For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse.
Ronald Kotulak
For his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science.
Mike Toner
For "When Bugs Fight Back," a series that explored the diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics and pesticides.
Robert S. Capers and Eric Lipton
For a series about the flawed Hubble Space Telescope that illustrated many of the problems plaguing America's space program.
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.