Finalist: Newsday , by Staff
For detailed coverage of a Bronx social club fire that was caused by arson and claimed 87 lives.
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Reporting in 1991:
Staff
For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
Spot News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Reporting in 1991:
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of the collision of two jets at the city's Metropolitan Airport.
The Jury
The Jury
H. Brandt Ayers(Chair)
Editor and Publisher, Anniston (Ala.) Star
Benjamin J. Burns
Editor and Publisher, Adams Newspapers, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Tad Bartimus
Special Correspondent, Associated Press
James N. Crutchfield
Managing Editor, Akron Beacon Journal
Don Flores
Assistant to the President, Gannett West
James P. Herman
Editor, Traverse City (Mich.) Record Eagle
1991 Prize Winners
Natalie Angier
For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
Jim Hoagland
For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
David Shaw
For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.