Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by David Jackson and Cornelia Grumman
For their series on the growing lucrative privatization of jails and foster programs for troubled youths.
Winners
Prize Winner in National Reporting in 2000:
Staff
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.
National Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 2000:
Anne Hull
For her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life.
The Jury
The Jury
Matthew V. Storin(chair )
editor
John Dillin
managing editor
Lars-Erik Nelson
columnist
Les Payne*
assistant managing editor
Sharon Rosenhause
managing editor, news
Winners in National Reporting
Staff
For a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy.
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.
Staff
For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.
Alix M. Freedman
For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
2000 Prize Winners
George Dohrmann
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
Photo Staff
For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
Staff
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.