Finalist: The Des Moines Register , by Donald Kaul
For his witty columns from Washington on politics and other national issues.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 1999:
Maureen Dowd
For her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 1999:
Nat Hentoff
For his passionate columns championing free expression and individual rights.
The Jury
The Jury
Frank Sutherland(chair )
editor and senior vice president/news
Phil Bronstein
executive editor
William Hilliard
former editor
Robert Hodierne
national editor
Manuela Hoelterhoff*
former member, editorial board
Edward C. Pease
professor, department head/vice president, media relations
Howard A. Tyner
editor
Winners in Commentary
Mike McAlary
For his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse.
Eileen McNamara
For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
Jim Dwyer
For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City.
1999 Prize Winners
Duke Ellington
Bestowed posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik
For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
Staff
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself.