Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Richard E. Meyer
For his elegant, insightful portrait of a Tennessee family whose son shot three people at his high school.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2001:
Tom Hallman Jr.
For his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2001:
Robin Gaby Fisher
For her inspirational stories that chronicled the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University.
The Jury
The Jury
Karen F. Dunlap(chair )
dean
Jeanette Chavez
managing editor/operations
Linda Fibich
national news editor
Daniel Hertzberg*
deputy managing editor
Julia Wallace
managing editor
William J. Ward
managing editor
Winners in Feature Writing
J.R. Moehringer
For his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
Angelo B. Henderson
For his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
Thomas French
For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
Lisa Pollak
For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.