Finalist: The New York Times , by Nicholas D. Kristof
For his compelling comprehensive and compassionate reporting from Africa and Asia.
Winners
Prize Winner in International Reporting in 1998:
Staff
For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
International Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 1998:
John Pomfret
For his series, written under difficult conditions, on Laurent Kabila's brutal rise to power in Zaire.
The Jury
The Jury
James F. Hoge Jr.(chair )
editor
Phil Bronstein
executive editor
David T. Cook
editor
Orville Schell
dean, Graduate School of Journalism
Alvin Shuster
senior consulting editor
Winners in International Reporting
John F. Burns
For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.
David Rohde
For his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
Mark Fritz
For his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda.
Dallas Morning News Team
For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
1998 Prize Winners
George Gershwin
Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
Linda Greenhouse
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.