Finalist: The Plain Dealer , by Regina Brett
For her passionate columns on alienated teenagers in a dangerous city neighborhood.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 2008:
Steven Pearlstein
For his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity.
Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 2008:
John Kass
For his hard-hitting columns on the abuse of local political power and a lively range of topics in a colorful city.
The Jury
The Jury
John Temple(Chair )
editor, president and publisher
Paul Anger
editor and vice president
Mark Bowden
former editor
Lorraine Branham
director and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor
Robert Caldwell
editorial page editor
Diane McFarlin
publisher
Ken Tingley
editor
Winners in Commentary
Cynthia Tucker
For her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community.
Nicholas D. Kristof
For his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world.
Connie Schultz
For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.
2008 Prize Winners
The Washington Post
in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.
David Umhoefer
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
David Lang
Co-commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation and The Perth Theater and Concert Hall, and premiered October 25, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City (G. Schirmer, Inc.).
Staff
For its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online.