Finalist: The Orlando Sentinel Staff
For coverage of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, including middle-of-the-night reports as party-goers hid and police prepared to storm the building and subsequent work that took readers inside the club and humanized the victims.
Nominated Work
June 12, 2016
June 13, 2016
June 15, 2016
June 16, 2016
June 18, 2016
June 19, 2016
June 26, 2016
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2017:
Staff
For relentless coverage of the “Ghost Ship” fire, which killed 36 people at a warehouse party, and for reporting after the tragedy that exposed the city’s failure to take actions that might have prevented it.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2017:
The Dallas Morning News Staff
For keeping readers informed during a chaotic shooting spree that killed five police officers and injured nine others and delivering timely, vivid and heartbreaking accounts of the horrific night.
The Jury
The Jury
Amalie C. Nash(Chair)
Executive Editor, West Region
Felice Belman
Politics Editor
Cory Haik
Chief Strategy Officer
Mark Rochester
Former Executive Editor
Julie Westfall
Deputy Politics Editor
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
Los Angeles Times Staff
For exceptional reporting, including both local and global perspectives, on the shooting in San Bernardino and the terror investigation that followed.
The Seattle Times Staff
For its digital account of a landslide that killed 43 people and the impressive follow-up reporting that explored whether the calamity could have been avoided.
Staff
For its exhaustive and empathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the ensuing manhunt that enveloped the city, using photography and a range of digital tools to capture the full impact of the tragedy.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured 58, using journalistic tools, from Twitter and Facebook to video and written reports, both to capture a breaking story and provide context.
2017 Prize Winners
C. J. Chivers
For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD.
Peggy Noonan
For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.
Hilton Als
For bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality and race.
Art Cullen
For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.