Finalist: Concordia (La.) Sentinel, by Stanley Nelson
For his courageous and determined efforts to unravel a long forgotten Ku Klux Klan murder during the Civil Rights era.
Winners
Prize Winner in Local Reporting in 2011:
Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim
For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.
Local Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Local Reporting in 2011:
Marshall Allen and Alex Richards
For their compelling reports on patients who suffered preventable injuries and other harm during hospital care, taking advantage of print and digital tools to drive home their findings.
The Jury
The Jury
David McCumber
editorial director
Debbie Hiott(chair )
managing editor
John Drescher
executive editor
Mark Hinojosa
director of interactive media
Maricarrol Kueter
executive editor
Cory Lancaster
managing editor
Tim Rasmussen
assistant managing editor, photography
Winners in Local Reporting
Raquel Rutledge
For her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers.
Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick
For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials.
David Umhoefer
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
Debbie Cenziper
For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions.
2011 Prize Winners
Jennifer Egan
An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
Ron Chernow
A sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties.
Mike Keefe
For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.
Kay Ryan
A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.