Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by Howard Witt
For his wide ranging examination of complicated racial issues in America, from the courtroom to the schoolyard.
Winners
Prize Winner in National Reporting in 2008:
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman
For their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy.
National Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 2008:
Staff
For its stories about CIA interrogation techniques that critics condemned as torture, stirring debate on the legal and moral limits of American action against terrorism.
The Jury
The Jury
Brian Toolan(Chair )
national editor
John M. Arthur
managing editor
Helen Donovan
executive editor
Michele Melendez
national correspondent
Betty Wong
managing editor, North and South Americas and global head of editorial operations
Winners in National Reporting
Charlie Savage
For his revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws.
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau
For their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty.
Walt Bogdanich
For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings.
Staff
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries.
2008 Prize Winners
The Washington Post
in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.
David Umhoefer
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
David Lang
Co-commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation and The Perth Theater and Concert Hall, and premiered October 25, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City (G. Schirmer, Inc.).
Staff
For its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online.