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Finalist: Cox Newspapers , by Joseph P. Albright

For a series on energy.

Winners

Prize Winner in National Reporting in 1980:

Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford

For their investigation of the Church of Scientology. National Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1980:

George Anthan

For a series on disappearing farmland.

Staff

For a series on chemicals in the environment, "Poisoning of America."

The Jury

Larry Jinks(Chair)

Editor, San Jose Mercury News

John Dillin

Managing Editor/News, The Christian Science Monitor

John R. Finnegan

Executive Editor, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press

Reg Murphy

Editor, San Francisco Examiner

John L. Stallings

Associate Editor/Editor of the Editorial Pages, Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Winners in National Reporting

James Risser

For disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.

1980 Prize Winners