Finalist: Dayton Daily News , by Staff
For its ambitious global examination of the ethical issues surrounding the recruiting of foreign athletes for American schools.
Winners
Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting in 2002:
Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen
For a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system.
Investigative Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 2002:
Craig Whitlock, David S. Fallis and April Witt
For two series that documented systematic abuses, including excessive shootings and questionable murder confessions, in the Prince George's County police department.
Duff Wilson and David Heath
For a penetrating investigation of a local cancer research center, reporting that some patients who died in two failed clinical trials were deprived of essential information about the trials' risks, and were given drugs in which the center and its doctors had a financial interest.
The Jury
The Jury
Dean Baquet(chair )*
managing editor
Peter Carey
investigative reporter/projects
Douglas Clifton
editor
Alix Freedman*
investigative projects editor
Gail Collins
editorial page editor
W. Curtis Riddle
president and publisher
Steve Sidlo
managing editor
Winners in Investigative Reporting
David Willman
For his pioneering exposé of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness.
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.
Staff
For its detailed reporting that revealed pervasive voter fraud in a city mayoral election, that was subsequently overturned.
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.
2002 Prize Winners
Gretchen Morgenson
For her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage.
Staff
For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath.
Staff
For its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future.