Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by N. Don Wycliff
For his editorials about welfare reform and its effect on children.
Winners
Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 1996:
Robert B. Semple
For his editorials on environmental issues.
Editorial Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 1996:
Daniel P. Henninger
For his editorials on a wide range of topical subjects.
The Jury
The Jury
Arnold Rosenfeld(chair )
editor-in-chief
Don Flores
editor and publisher
Robert J. Haiman
president
Mary Jo Meisner
editor
Richard Reeves
syndicated columnist
Winners in Editorial Writing
Jeffrey Good
For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.
R. Bruce Dold
For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
Maria Henson
For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms.
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.