Finalist: The Philadelphia Inquirer , by Karen Heller
For her humorous columns on modern life and popular culture.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 2001:
Dorothy Rabinowitz
For her articles on American society and culture.
Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 2001:
Derrick Z. Jackson
For his perceptive, versatile columns on such subjects as politics, education and race.
Trudy Rubin
For her keenly analytical columns on the Middle East.
The Jury
The Jury
Richard Reeves(chair )
columnist
Joe Copeland
editorial page editor
Loren Ghiglione
director, Annenberg School of Journalism
Karla Garrett Harshaw
editor
Bernard Judge
editor and vice president
Wesley Pruden
editor-in-chief
Kathy Silverberg
executive editor
Winners in Commentary
Paul A. Gigot
For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.
Maureen Dowd
For her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Mike McAlary
For his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse.
Eileen McNamara
For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues.
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.