Finalist: The Charlotte Sun , by Staff
For its heroic coverage of Hurricane Charley after it destroyed the homes of employees and cut the paper's power supply and phone service.
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2005:
Staff
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2005:
Staff
For its enterprising and wideranging coverage, under difficult conditions, of four hurricanes that battered Florida over a six-week span.
The Jury
The Jury
Scott R. Gillespie(chair )
managing editor
Catherine Barnett
executive editor
Hank Klibanoff*
managing editor for news
Susan Page
Washington bureau chief
Debra Adams Simmons
vice president and editor
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
Staff
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.
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.
2005 Prize Winners
Amy Dockser Marcus
For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
Staff
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
Staff
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.