Finalist: The Miami Herald , by Staff
For its immediate and distinctive search for the cause of the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2004:
Staff
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2004:
Staff
For its enterprising coverage of the summertime blackout that stretched over a vast area of the United States and cut the paper's own power supply as deadlines loomed.
The Jury
The Jury
William B. Ketter(chair )
editor-in-chief and vice president/news
James Bettinger
director, Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists
Michael O'Neill
former editor
Sherrie Marshall
vice president/executive editor
Fred Zipp
managing editor
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
Staff
For its detailed, well-crafted stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River.
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.
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.
Staff
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.
2004 Prize Winners
Daniel Golden
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
Staff
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.