Finalist: The Wall Street Journal , by Dorothy Rabinowitz
For her columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged child abuse.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 1996:
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
Commentary
The Jury
The Jury
Seth Lipsky(chair )
president and editor
Craig Klugman
editor
Rexanna Keller Lester
executive editor
Gregory Moore
managing editor
Dennis R. Ryerson
editor
Winners in Commentary
Jim Dwyer
For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City.
William Raspberry
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Liz Balmaseda
For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
Anna Quindlen
For her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics.
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.