Finalist: Chicago Tribune , by Staff
For its year-long examination of child homicide, which focused individual attention on 61 children and the circumstances of their deaths.
Winners
Prize Winner in Public Service in 1994:
Akron Beacon Journal
For its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.
Public Service
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Public Service in 1994:
Staff
For the work of Eileen Welsome, which related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
The Jury
The Jury
Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.(chair )*
professor of journalism
Foster Davis
managing editor
Michael O'Neill
former editor
Rick Rodriguez
managing editor
Rochelle Sharpe*
reporter
Winners in Public Service
The Miami Herald
For coverage that not only helped readers cope with Hurricane Andrew's devastation but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction.
The Sacramento (CA) Bee
For "The Sierra in Peril," reporting by Tom Knudson that examined environmental threats and damage to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
Des Moines Register
For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
Washington (NC) Daily News
For revealing that the city's water supply was contaminated with carcinogens, a problem that the local government had neither disclosed nor corrected over a period of eight years.
1994 Prize Winners
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld
For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
William Raspberry
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Lloyd Schwartz
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.