Finalist: The New York Times , by Staff
For its insightful coverage of the completed deciphering of the human genome, which explained the scientific context for understanding the chemical string that makes up DNA, as well as the discovery's implications for the future.
Winners
Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting in 2001:
Staff
For "Gateway to Gridlock," its clear and compelling profile of the chaotic American air traffic system.
Explanatory Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Explanatory Reporting in 2001:
Louise Kiernan
For her moving and humane portrait of a young mother killed by a falling skyscraper window, its effect on her three-year-old daughter, and the negligence of the company involved.
The Jury
The Jury
Bill Keller(chair )*
managing editor
John Diaz
editorial page editor
Lance Johnson
managing editor
Michael O'Neill
former editor
Glenn Proctor
associate editor
Brian Toolan
editor and vice president
Karin E. Winner
editor
Winners in Explanatory Reporting
Eric Newhouse
For his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community.
Richard Read
For vividly illustrating the domestic impact of the Asian economic crisis by profiling the local industry that exports frozen french fries.
Paul F. Salopek
For his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people.
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.