Finalist: The Washington Post , by Michael Kelly
For his enlightening and entertaining observations on cultural and political issues.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 2000:
Paul A. Gigot
For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.
Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 2000:
Colbert I. King
For his caring, persuasive columns addressing social and urban problems.
The Jury
The Jury
Philip Gailey(chair )
editor of editorials and vice president
Jay Harris
chairman and publisher
Maria Henson*
deputy editorial page editor
Bill Keller*
managing editor
Stuart H. Loory
Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies, School of Journalism
Edward C. Pease
professor, department head/vice president, media relations
Wesley Pruden
editor-in-chief
Winners in Commentary
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.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
2000 Prize Winners
George Dohrmann
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
Photo Staff
For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
Staff
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.