Finalist: The New York Times, by John Branch
For his deeply reported story of Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player valued for his brawling, whose tragic story shed light on a popular sport's disturbing embrace of potentially brain-damaging violence.
Nominated Work
November 30, 2015
By John Branch
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2012:
Eli Sanders
For his haunting story of a woman who survived a brutal attack that took the life of her partner, using the woman's brave courtroom testimony and the details of the crime to construct a moving narrative.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2012:
Corinne Reilly
For her inspiring stories that bring the reader side-by-side with the medical professionals seeking to save the lives of gravely injured American soldiers at a combat hospital in Afghanistan.
The Jury
The Jury
Kelly McBride(Chair )
senior faculty, ethics, reporting and writing
Ronnie Agnew
former executive editor, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS; executive director
Peter Bhatia
editor and vice president
Amy Ellis Nutt*
staff writer
Lillian Swanson
managing editor
Irwin Thompson
assistant director of photography
Janice M. Touney
executive editor
Winners in Feature Writing
Amy Ellis Nutt
For her deeply probing story of the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men.
Gene Weingarten
For his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars.
Lane DeGregory
For her moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing.
Gene Weingarten
For his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters.
2012 Prize Winners
No award
No award
Manning Marable
An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic.
John Lewis Gaddis
An engaging portrait of a globetrotting diplomat whose complicated life was interwoven with the Cold War and America's emergence as the world's dominant power.
Tracy K. Smith
A collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.