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Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

For a distinguished example of investigative or other specialized reporting by an individual or other specialized reporting within a newspaper's local area of circulation by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, giving prime consideration to initiative, resourcefulness, research, and high quality of writing, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Year
Winners
Finalists
1984

Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary Mc Millan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel of The Boston Globe

For their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including The Globe itself.
Finalists:
Clark Hallas, John S. Long and David C. McCumber of Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, AZ
Peter Mark Rinearson of The Seattle Times
Clark Hallas, John S. Long and David C. McCumber of Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, AZ

Peter Mark Rinearson of The Seattle Times

Donald C. Drake of The Philadelphia Inquirer

R.G. Dunlop, Robert T. Garrett, Richard Whitt, Mike Brown, Bill Osinski and Stewart Bowman of The Louisville Courier-Journal

Joel Brinkley of Louisville Courier-Journal

Sydney P. Freedberg and David Ashenfelter of The Detroit News

Richard Morin, Carl Hiaasen and Susan Sachs of The Miami Herald

Pamela Zekman, Gene Mustain, Gilbert Jimenez, Norma Sosa, Larry Cose, Patricia Smith and John Whit of Chicago Sun-Times

Carole E. Agus, Andrew V. Fetherston Jr. and Frederick J. Tuccillo of Newsday, Long Island, NY

Charles R. Cook and James S. Carlton of The News and Observer, Port Arthur, TX

Judy Grande and Brian Gallagher of The Journal-News, Nyack, NY

Lewis M. Simons and Ron Shaffer of The Washington Post

1979

Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin of Pottsville (PA) Republican

For stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.
Finalists:
1978

Anthony R. Dolan of The Stamford (CT) Advocate

For a series on municipal corruption.
Finalists:
1977

Acel Moore and Wendell Rawls Jr. of the Philadelphia Inquirer

For their reports on conditions in the Farview (Pa.) State Hospital for the mentally ill.
Finalists:
1976

Staff of Chicago Tribune

For uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals.
Finalists:
1975

Staff of Indianapolis Star

For its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor.
Finalists:
1974

William Sherman of New York Daily News

For his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.
Finalists:
1973

Staff of The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, NE

For uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebraska, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.
Finalists:
1972

Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian and Ann Desantis of The Boston Globe

For their exposure of widespread corruption in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Finalists:
1971

William Jones of Chicago Tribune

For exposing collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms.
Finalists:
1970

Harold Eugene Martin of Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal

For his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them.
Finalists:
1969

Albert L. Delugach and Denny Walsh of St. Louis Globe-Democrat

For their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis Steamfitters Union, Local 562.
Finalists:
1968

J. Anthony Lukas of The New York Times

For the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick.
Finalists:
1967

Gene Miller of Miami Herald

Whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.
Finalists:
1966

John Anthony Frasca of Tampa (FL) Tribune

For his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man.
Finalists:
1965

Gene Goltz of Houston Post

For his expose of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms.
Finalists:
1964

James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi and Frederick Meyer of The Philadelphia Bulletin

For their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department.
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