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1990 Pulitzer Prizes

Journalism

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Finalists

Washington (NC) Daily News

For revealing that the city's water supply was contaminated with carcinogens, a problem that the local government had neither disclosed nor corrected over a period of eight years.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

For reporting by Gilbert M. Gaul that disclosed how the American blood industry operates with little government regulation or supervision.
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Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison of Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul

For reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the St. Paul fire department and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of suspicious origin.
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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn of The New York Times

For knowledgeable reporting from China on the mass movement for democracy and its subsequent suppression.
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Dave Curtin of Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph

For a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
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Thomas J. Hylton of The Pottstown (PA) Mercury

For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.
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Staff of San Jose (CA) Mercury News

For its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath.
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David A. Vise and Steve Coll of The Washington Post

For stories scrutinizing the Securities and Exchange Commission and the way it has been affected by the policies of its former chairman, John Shad.
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Tamar Stieber of Albuquerque Journal

For persistent reporting that linked a rare blood disorder to an over-the-counter dietary supplement, L-Tryptophan, and led to a national recall of the product.
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