Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Staff
For its richly detailed coverage of the first day of fires that ravaged Southern California.
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Reporting in 1994:
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
Spot News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Reporting in 1994:
Robert D. McFadden
For his consistently impressive work during the year, much of it on deadline.
The Jury
The Jury
Sandra Mims Rowe(chair )
executive editor
Jim Amoss
editor
Dwight H. Lewis
columnist, editorial board member and weekend regional editor
Louis M. Perez
executive editor
Marcia McQuern
President and Executive Editor, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.
Mary Jo Meisner
editor and vice president
Winners in Spot News Reporting
Staff
For balanced, comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots.
Staff
For coverage of a midnight subway derailment in Manhattan that left five passengers dead and more than 200 injured.
Staff
For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
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.