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1991 Pulitzer Prizes

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Journalism

Category
Winners
Finalists
Public Service

Des Moines Register

For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
Finalists:
Staff of Los Angeles Times
Staff of Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
National Reporting

Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe of Gannett News Service

For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.
Finalists:
Bruce D. Butterfield of The Boston Globe
Charles Green of Knight-Ridder, Inc.
International Reporting

Serge Schmemann of The New York Times

For his coverage of the reunification of Germany.

Caryle Murphy of The Washington Post

For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
Finalists:
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
Feature Writing

Sheryl James of St. Petersburg (FL) Times

For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
Finalists:
Tad Bartimus of Associated Press
Wil Haygood of The Boston Globe
Commentary

Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post

For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Finalists:
Rheta Grimsley Johnson of The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
Philip Terzian of The Providence Journal-Bulletin
William F. Woo of St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Criticism

David Shaw of Los Angeles Times

For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.
Finalists:
Christopher Knight of Los Angeles Times
Joyce Millman of San Francisco Examiner
Leslie Savan of The Village Voice, a New York City weekly
Editorial Writing

Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy of The Birmingham (AL) News

For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
Finalists:
Seth Lipsky of Forward, a New York City weekly
Martin F. Nolan of The Boston Globe
Feature Photography

William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News

For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.
Finalists:
Ron Cortes of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jay Mather of The Sacramento Bee
Spot News Reporting

Staff of The Miami Herald

For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
Finalists:
Staff of The Detroit News
Staff of Newsday, Long Island, New York
Explanatory Journalism

Susan C. Faludi of The Wall Street Journal

For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance.
Finalists:
Charles A. Hite of The Roanoke Times & World-News
Ronald Kotulak and Peter Gorner of Chicago Tribune
Beat Reporting

Natalie Angier of The New York Times

For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
Finalists:
Scott Harper of The Capital, Annapolis, MD
David Shaw of Los Angeles Times
Spot News Photography

Greg Marinovich of Associated Press

For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
Finalists:
Photo Staff of Detroit Free Press
Photo Staff of Newsday, Long Island, New York

Special Citations

Books, Drama & Music

Category
Winners
Finalists
Music

Symphony , by Shulamit Ran

Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.
Finalists:
Four Movements for Piano , by Bright Sheng
Wilde: A Symphony in Three Movements , by Charles Fussell
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