Finalist: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , by Staff
For its swift and rigorous accounts of a shooting rampage by a prisoner who seized a deputy sheriff's gun and killed a judge and three others.
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2006:
Staff
For its courageous and aggressive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, overcoming desperate conditions facing the city and the newspaper.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2006:
Staff
For its clear, cohesive and enterprising coverage of Hurricane Wilma after it battered a region still recovering from major storms the previous year.
The Jury
The Jury
James O'Shea(chair )
managing editor
Linda Austin
executive editor
Therese Bottomly
managing editor/news
Bill Boyle
senior managing editor
Glenwood Proctor
executive editor
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
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.
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.
2006 Prize Winners
The Times-Picayune
For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)
Sun Herald
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.