Finalist: The Washington Post , by Staff
For its sensitive and moving examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations.
Winners
Prize Winner in International Reporting in 2009:
Staff
For its masterful, groundbreaking coverage of America's deepening military and political challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reporting frequently done under perilous condition
International Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 2009:
Rukmini Callimachi
For her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa who are often traded like animals by adults who prize their labor.
The Jury
The Jury
Robert Rivard(chair )
editor and executive vice president
John Joseph Daniszewski
managing editor, international news
Chrystia Freedland
U.S. managing editor
Marjorie Miller
editorial writer and special op-ed correspondent
Brian Rhoads
managing editor for the Americas
Winners in International Reporting
Steve Fainaru
For his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces.
Staff
For its sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution.
Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley
For their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation's legal system evolves.
Kim Murphy
For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work.
2009 Prize Winners
Patrick Farrell
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
W.S. Merwin
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory.
Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon
For the exposure of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip amid lax enforcement of regulations, leading to changes in policy and improved safety conditions.
Staff
For its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on its Web site and then developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports.