Finalist: The Eagle-Tribune , by Staff
For its coverage of a fire that leveled a local textile factory, the city's largest employer, and its devastating effects on the community.
Winners
Prize Winner in Spot News Reporting in 1996:
Robert D. McFadden
For his highly skilled writing and reporting on deadline during the year.
Spot News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Spot News Reporting in 1996:
Staff
For its coverage of the local and global impact of the purchase of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. by the Walt Disney Company.
The Jury
The Jury
Diane H. McFarlin(chair )
executive editor
Kenneth H. Brief
former executive vice president and editor
Louis Heldman
president and publisher
Pamela J. Johnson
managing editor
James Willse
editor
Winners in Spot News Reporting
Staff
For its reporting on January 17, 1994, of the chaos and devastation in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
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.
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.