Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Maura Reynolds
For her reporting, at considerable personal risk, of the volatile aftermath of the war in Chechnya and the uncertain future engagement of Russia with that republic.
Winners
Prize Winner in International Reporting in 2001:
Ian Johnson
For his revealing stories from China about victims of the government's often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign for the future.
International Reporting
The Jury
The Jury
James F. Hoge Jr.(chair )
editor
Fred Hiatt
editor, editorial page
Sally Jacobsen
international editor
Stuart H. Loory
Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies, School of Journalism
Tony Pederson
senior vice president and executive editor
Winners in International Reporting
Mark Schoofs
For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa.
Staff
For its in-depth, analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis.
Staff
For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
John F. Burns
For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.
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.