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The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting

Finalist: The Blade , by Sam Roe

For a series of articles that cited a 50-year pattern of misconduct by the American government and the beryllium industry in the production of metal used in nuclear bombs, which resulted in death and injury to dozens of workers, leading to government investigations and safety reforms.

Winners

Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting in 2000:

Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza

For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge. Investigative Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 2000:

Kurt Eichenwald and Gina Kolata

For reporting that disclosed how pharmaceutical companies secretly paid doctors to test drugs on patients.

The Jury

Gene Roberts(chair )*

professor of journalism

David Boardman

assistant managing editor

Karen Brown Dunlap

dean

Rosemary Goudreau

editor

Daniel Hertzberg*

deputy managing editor

Gene Miller*

associate editor/reporting

Clifford Teutsch

managing editor

Winners in Investigative Reporting

1999

Staff

For its detailed reporting that revealed pervasive voter fraud in a city mayoral election, that was subsequently overturned.
1998

Gary Cohn and Will Englund

For their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled.
1996

Staff

For reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms.
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2000 Prize Winners

Beat Reporting

George Dohrmann

For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
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