Finalist: The Washington Post , by David Ottaway and Joe Stephens
For their detailed stories that revealed questionable practices by a respected environmental organization and that produced sweeping reforms.
Winners
Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting in 2004:
Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr
For their powerful series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon, during the Vietnam War.
Investigative Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 2004:
David Barstow and Lowell Bergman
For their relentless examination of death and injury among American workers and exposure of employers who break basic safety rules. (Moved by the Board to the Public Service category, where it was also entered.)
The Jury
The Jury
Stephen Engelberg(chair )
managing editor/enterprise
Josh Friedman*
director of internatinal programs Graduate School of Journalism
Hank Klibanoff*
managing editor
Alex MacLeod
retired managing editor
Judy Miller
managing editor
Walter Robinson
assistant managing editor
Mark Silverman
publisher and editor
Winners in Investigative Reporting
Clifford J. Levy
For his vivid, brilliantly written series "Broken Homes" that exposed the abuse of mentally ill adults in state-regulated homes.
Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen
For a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system.
David Willman
For his pioneering exposé of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness.
Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza
For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge.
2004 Prize Winners
Daniel Golden
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
Staff
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.