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The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in National Reporting

Finalist: The New York Times , by Douglas Frantz

For his dogged reporting on the Church of Scientology, particularly its questionable relationship with the Internal Revenue Service, which granted the organization tax-exempt status.

Winners

Prize Winner in National Reporting in 1998:

Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith

For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms. National Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1998:

David Wood

For his fresh and revealing coverage of the U.S. military and the challenges facing it in the post-Cold War world.

The Jury

Robert G. Kaiser(chair )

managing editor

Helen W. Donovan

executive editor

Andrew J. Glass

senior correspondent

Alex S. Jones*

Eugene C. Patterson Professor of Journalism

Robert G. McGruder

executive editor

Winners in National Reporting

1997

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.
1996

Alix M. Freedman

For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
1994

Eileen Welsome

For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
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1998 Prize Winners

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