Finalist: Los Angeles Times Staff , by Staff
For its compelling and resourceful coverage of every aspect of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 off the California coast, which killed 88 passengers.
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2001:
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2001:
Staff
For its graphic and highly detailed coverage, despite restricted access, of the dormitory fire at Seton Hall University that killed three students and injured 58 others.
The Jury
The Jury
Linda Grist Cunningham(chair )
executive editor
Xana Antunes
editor
Neil Brown
managing editor
Rick Doyle
editor
Mizell Stewart III
managing editor
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
Staff
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.
Staff
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.