Finalist: Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine
For a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. (Moved by the Board to the Investigative Reporting category.)
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2010:
Gene Weingarten
For his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars.
Feature Writing
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2010:
Dan Barry
For his portfolio of closely observed pieces that movingly capture how the great recession is changing lives and relationships in America.
The Jury
The Jury
Cory Lancaster
managing editor
David McCumber
editor
James Warren(chair )
president and publisher
Carole Carmichael
assistant managing editor, features
Rick Doyle
editor
Denise Costa
features editor
Michael Shapiro
professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Winners in Feature Writing
Lane DeGregory
For her moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing.
Gene Weingarten
For his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters.
Andrea Elliott
For her intimate, richly textured portrait of an immigrant imam striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America.
Jim Sheeler
For his poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.
2010 Prize Winners
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Hank Williams
For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
Rae Armantrout
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.