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The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Writing

Finalist: St. Louis Post-Dispatch , by Philip Kennicott

For his carefully reasoned editorial campaign against the passage of a proposition to legally allow Missouri residents to carry concealed weapons.

Winners

Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 2000:

John C. Bersia

For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations. Editorial Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 2000:

Fred Hiatt

For his authoritative editorials on the crisis in Kosovo.

The Jury

Howard A. Tyner(chair )

vice president and editor

Jane Amari

editor and publisher

Jeff Cohen

editor

Loren Ghiglione

director, School of Journalism

Emerson Lynn Jr.

editor and publisher

Winners in Editorial Writing

1999

Editorial Board

For its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival.
1998

Bernard L. Stein

For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
1997

Michael Gartner

For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.
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2000 Prize Winners

Beat Reporting

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.
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