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The 1997 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in National Reporting

Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Ronald Brownstein

For his comprehensive political coverage during the presidential election year.

Winners

Prize Winner in National Reporting in 1997:

Staff

For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease. National Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1997:

Bill Moushey

For his resourceful reporting on the federal Witness Protection Program illustrating how the program's secrecy and lack of oversight has led to abuses and risks to the public.

The Jury

William F. Woo(chair )

Lorry I. Lokey visiting professor of journalism

George Anthan

Washington bureau chief

Andrew J. Glass

Washington bureau chief

Rexanna Keller Lester

executive editor

Stuart Wilk

managing editor

Winners in National Reporting

1996

Alix M. Freedman

For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
1994

Eileen Welsome

For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
1993

David Maraniss

For his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate Bill Clinton.
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1997 Prize Winners

Beat Reporting

Byron Acohido

For his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements.
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