Finalist: Star-Ledger , by Robin Gaby Fisher
For her exhaustive look inside the lives of students at an alternative high school, shattering stereotypes and delineating memorable characters.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2005:
Julia Keller
For her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2005:
Anne Hull
For her clear, sensitive, tirelessly reported stories on what it means to be young and gay in modern America.
The Jury
The Jury
Bill Grueskin(chair )
managing editor
Dorothy M. Bland
president and publisher
Cheryl Carpenter
deputy managing editor
Nancy Conway
editor
Naedine Hazell
features editor
Robert W. Mong
editor
James H. Smith
executive editor
Winners in Feature Writing
No award
No award
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.
2005 Prize Winners
Amy Dockser Marcus
For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
Staff
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
Staff
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.