Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Robert Lee Hotz
For his lucid story on the efforts to unravel the mystery of why the Columbia space shuttle fell from the sky.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2004:
Anne Hull and Tamara Jones
For their intimate exploration of the lives of wounded soldiers returning from Iraq.
Patricia Wen
For her story chronicling more aggressive efforts by states to terminate the rights of parents.
The Jury
The Jury
Anne Gordon(chair )
managing editor
Catherine Barnett
executive editor
David Offer
executive editor
Howard Schneider
editor
James Willse
editor
Susan Bischoff
associate editor
Tom Kearney
executive editor
Winners in Feature Writing
Sonia Nazario
For "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
Barry Siegel
For his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
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.
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.
2004 Prize Winners
Daniel Golden
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
Staff
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.