Finalist: The Washington Post , by David Maraniss and Michael Weiskopf
For their accounts of the way the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives played out during 1995.
Winners
Prize Winner in National Reporting in 1996:
Alix M. Freedman
For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
National Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1996:
Russell Carollo, Carol Hernandez and Jeff Nesmith
For their reporting on lenient handling of sexual misconduct cases by the military justice system.
The Jury
The Jury
John L. Seigenthaler(chair )
chairman
Jerry Ceppos
executive editor and senior vice president
Paul Delaney
chairman, journalism department
Richard A. Oppel
editor
Louise C. Seals
managing editor
Winners in National Reporting
Tony Horwitz
For stories about working conditions in low-wage America.
Eileen Welsome
For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
David Maraniss
For his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate Bill Clinton.
Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw
For their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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.