Finalist: The Washington Post , by Staff
For its exploration of how the military is using trauma surgery, brain science and other techniques both old and new to reduce fatalities among the wounded in warfare, telling the story with words, images and other tools.
Winners
Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting in 2011:
Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood
For their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.
Explanatory Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Explanatory Reporting in 2011:
Staff
For its penetration of the shadowy world of fraud and abuse in Medicare, probing previously concealed government databases to identify millions of dollars in waste and corrupt practices.
The Jury
The Jury
James O’Shea(chair)
editor
Linda Corcoran
Sunday editor
Andrew Donohue
editor
Thomas Kennedy
Alexia Endowed Chair and professor
Shazna Nessa
director, interactive
Carol Stevens
managing editor, news section
Tracy Weber
senior reporter
Winners in Explanatory Reporting
Michael Moss and members of the Staff
For relentless reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues that, in print and online, spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category.)
Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart
For their fresh and painstaking exploration into the cost and effectiveness of attempts to combat the growing menace of wildfires across the western United States.
Amy Harmon
For her striking examination of the dilemmas and ethical issues that accompany DNA testing, using human stories to sharpen her reports.
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, and Rick Loomis
For their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials.
2011 Prize Winners
Jennifer Egan
An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
Ron Chernow
A sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties.
Mike Keefe
For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.
Kay Ryan
A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.