Finalist: The Times-Picayune , by Staff
For a revealing series on the destruction of housing and the threat to the environment posed by the Formosan termite.
Winners
Prize Winner in National Reporting in 1999:
Staff
For a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy.
National Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1999:
Chris Adams, Ellen Graham and Michael Moss
For their reporting on the pitfalls faced by elderly Americans housed in commercial long-term facilities.
The Jury
The Jury
Jonathan Wolman(chair )
managing editor
Charlotte H. Hall
managing editor
Alex S. Jones*
Eugene C. Patterson Professor of Journalism and executive editor/host
Marshall Loeb
editor
Matthew Wilson
executive editor
Winners in National Reporting
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.
Staff
For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.
Alix M. Freedman
For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
Tony Horwitz
For stories about working conditions in low-wage America.
1999 Prize Winners
Duke Ellington
Bestowed posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik
For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
Staff
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself.