Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by J.R. Moehringer
For "The Champ," an extraordinary documentation of a heavyweight boxer's glory days and his fall.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 1998:
Thomas French
For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1998:
Steve Giegerich
For his startling and original story about a bond that formed between four medical students and the cadaver they studied.
The Jury
The Jury
Joel Rawson(chair )
executive editor
Karen Baker
executive editor
Daniel J. Warner
editor
William F. Woo
visiting faculty
Narda Zacchino
associate editor and vice president
Winners in Feature Writing
Lisa Pollak
For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
Rick Bragg
For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
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.
1998 Prize Winners
George Gershwin
Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
Linda Greenhouse
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.