Finalist: The Charlotte (NC) Observer , by Tommy Tomlinson
For his provocative columns with a wide-ranging human touch.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 2005:
Connie Schultz
For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged.
Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 2005:
Nicholas D. Kristof
For his powerful columns that portrayed suffering among the developing world's often forgotten people and stirred action.
The Jury
The Jury
David Shribman(chair )*
executive editor
Susan Bischoff
associate editor
Ellen Foley
editor
Tom Kearney
executive editor
Addie Rimmer
assistant professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Margaret Sullivan
editor and vice president
Troy Turner
executive editor
Winners in Commentary
Leonard Pitts Jr.
For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.
Colbert I. King
For his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom.
Thomas Friedman
For his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat.
Dorothy Rabinowitz
For her articles on American society and culture.
2005 Prize Winners
Amy Dockser Marcus
For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
Staff
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
Staff
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.