Finalist: The Philadelphia Inquirer , by Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds
For their series on live-birth abortions.
Winners
Prize Winner in National Reporting in 1982:
Rick Atkinson
For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.
National Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1982:
Washington Bureau Staff
For its coverage of the attempted assassination of President Reagan.
The Jury
The Jury
Eileen Shanahan(Chair)
Senior Assistant Managing Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
William E. Giles
Vice President and Editor, The Detroit News
Argentina S. Hills
President and Publisher, El Mundo, San Juan, P.R.
James B. King
Vice President/News and Executive Editor, The Seattle Times
Walter Rugaber
Executive Editor, Greensboro Daily News/Greensboro Record
Winners in National Reporting
John M. Crewdson
For his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration.
Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford
For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.
James Risser
For a series on farming damage to the environment.
Gaylord D. Shaw
For a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams.
1982 Prize Winners
Martin Bernheimer
For classical music criticism.