Finalist: The Clarion-Ledger , by Marshall Ramsey
For his vivid, wide ranging cartoons that express crisp opinions with uncomplicated artistry.
Winners
Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning in 2006:
Mike Luckovich
For his powerful cartoons on an array of issues, drawn with a simple but piercing style.
Editorial Cartooning
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Editorial Cartooning in 2006:
Mike Thompson
For diverse cartoons that use wit, irony and artistic flair to sharpen their impact.
The Jury
The Jury
John Young
editorial page editor
Lucy Shelton Caswell(chair )
professor and curator
O. Ricardo Pimentel
editorial page editor
Rebecca Pierce
editor
Sandra Long
deputy managing editor
Winners in Editorial Cartooning
Nick Anderson
For his unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.
Matt Davies
For his piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style.
David Horsey
For his perceptive cartoons executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor.
2006 Prize Winners
The Times-Picayune
For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)
Sun Herald
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.