Finalist: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Dan Egan
For his exhaustive examination of the struggle to keep Asian carp and other invasive species from reaching the Great Lakes and ultimately all of the nation's inland waters, a story enhanced by animated graphics.
Nominated Work
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Winners
Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting in 2013:
Staff
For its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.
Explanatory Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Explanatory Reporting in 2013:
Tony Bartelme
For his stories that helped readers understand the complex factors driving up their insurance bills.
The Jury
The Jury
George Rodrigue(Chair )*
vice president and managing editor
Walt Bogdanich*
assistant editor, investigations
Greg Borowski
senior editor, projects and investigations
John Costa
editor in chief
Amy Ellis Nutt*
staff writer
Gary Putka
U.S. team leader, projects and investigation
Winners in Explanatory Reporting
David Kocieniewski
For his lucid series that penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes.
Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood
For their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.
Michael Moss and members of the Staff
For relentless reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues that, in print and online, spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category.)
Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart
For their fresh and painstaking exploration into the cost and effectiveness of attempts to combat the growing menace of wildfires across the western United States.
2013 Prize Winners
Adam Johnson
An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.
Ayad Akhtar
A moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage.
Sharon Olds
A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.
Caroline Shaw
A highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects (New Amsterdam Records).