Finalist: Rocky Mountain News , by Kevin Vaughan
For his sensitive retelling of a school bus and train collision at a rural crossing in 1961 that killed 20 children.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2008:
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.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2008:
Thomas Curwen
For his vivid account of a grizzly bear attack and the recovery of the two victims.
The Jury
The Jury
Bobbie Jo Buel(Chair )
executive editor
Cate Barron
managing editor
Mary Corey
assistant managing editor, features
David Ledford,
vice president of news and executive editor
Earl Maucker
editor
Rochelle Reed
features editor
Bill Rose
managing editor
Winners in Feature Writing
Andrea Elliott
For her intimate, richly textured portrait of an immigrant imam striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America.
Jim Sheeler
For his poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.
Julia Keller
For her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois.
No award
No award
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.