Finalist: The Boston Globe , by Ellen Barry
For her empathetic and illuminating portrait of teenaged Sudanese boys resettled in the U.S. who must engage with American culture.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2002:
Barry Siegel
For his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2002:
David Maraniss
For his moving and textured reconstruction of the tragic events of September 11th, described through the actions of several key participants.
The Jury
The Jury
Neil Brown(chair )
managing editor and vice president
Jennie Buckner
editor
Jack Hart
managing editor
Joanne Lipman
deputy managing editor
William H. Millsaps, Jr.
senior vice president and executive editor
Margaret M. Sullivan
editor and vice president
Kim Willis
features editor
Winners in Feature Writing
Tom Hallman Jr.
For his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
J.R. Moehringer
For his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
Angelo B. Henderson
For his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
Thomas French
For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
2002 Prize Winners
Gretchen Morgenson
For her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage.
Staff
For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath.
Staff
For its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future.