Finalist: The Albuquerque Tribune , by Hank Stuever
For his detailed and highly personal account of returning to his hometown of Oklahoma City after the bombing there.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 1996:
Rick Bragg
For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1996:
Richard E. Meyer
For "Buried Alive," his chilling profile of a woman's desperate attempts to communicate after being left mute and paralyzed by strokes.
The Jury
The Jury
Jacqui Banazynski(chair )*
senior editor/enterprise
Lawrence K. Beaupre
vice president and editor
Van King
president and publisher
Ron Martin
editor
John Woestendiek*
reporter
Winners in Feature Writing
Ron Suskind
For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper.
Isabel Wilkerson
For her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
George Lardner Jr.
For his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
Howell Raines
For "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship.
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.