Finalist: Associated Press , by Staff
For its accurate and comprehensive coverage of the 2000 presidential election, particularly during those 36 uncertain days when much of the nation looked to the AP for disciplined, 24-hour reporting on the close votes and recounts.
Winners
Prize Winner in Public Service in 2001:
The Oregonian
For its detailed and unflinching examination of systematic problems within the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, including harsh treatment of foreign nationals and other widespread abuses, which prompted various reforms.
Public Service
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Public Service in 2001:
Staff
For its comprehensive series on the AIDS plague in Africa, which revealed how the devastating epidemic was affected by political, commercial and bureaucratic forces far removed from the lives of most of its victims.
The Jury
The Jury
James Ottaway Jr.(chair )
senior vice president and chairman
Ken Bunting
executive editor
Reese Cleghorn
former dean, College of Journalism
Alberto Ibarguen
publisher
John Lee
former director of editorial development
Ann Marie Lipinski*
editor and executive vice president
Mary Jo Meisner
editor and vice president
Winners in Public Service
The Washington Post, notably for the work of Katherine Boo
that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.
The Washington Post
For its series that identified and analyzed patterns of reckless gunplay by city police officers who had little training or supervision.
Grand Forks (ND) Herald
For its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself.
The Times-Picayune
For its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish.
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.