Finalist: The Philadelphia Inquirer , by Frank Fitzpatrick and Gilbert M. Gaul
For their series on the extreme commercialization of college sports.
Winners
Prize Winner in National Reporting in 2001:
Staff
For its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America.
National Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 2001:
Staff
For its comprehensive review of death penalty cases in Texas and nine other states that pointed out fundamental flaws in the system by which Americans are executed for crimes.
The Jury
The Jury
Dean Baquet*
managing editor
Eugene Roberts(chair )*
professor of journalism
John Dillin
associate editor
Karen Jurgensen
editor
Robert Rivard
editor and senior vice president
Winners in National Reporting
Staff
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.
Staff
For a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy.
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.
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.
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.