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1994 Pulitzer Prizes

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Journalism

Category
Winners
Finalists
Public Service

Akron Beacon Journal

For its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.
Finalists:
Staff of Albuquerque Tribune
Staff of Chicago Tribune
National Reporting

Eileen Welsome of Albuquerque Tribune

For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
Finalists:
Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times
Gilbert M. Gaul and Neill A. Borowski of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Feature Writing

Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times

For her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
Finalists:
April Witt and Scott Higham of The Miami Herald
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
Commentary

William Raspberry of The Washington Post

For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Finalists:
Jane Daugherty of Detroit Free Press
Peter H. King of Los Angeles Times
Editorial Writing

R. Bruce Dold of Chicago Tribune

For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
Finalists:
Jim Montgomery of Shreveport (LA) Journal
Editorial Board of Birmingham (AL) News
Feature Photography

Kevin Carter, a free-lance photographer

For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.
Finalists:
Stan Grossfeld of The Boston Globe
April Saul of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Staff of Associated Press
Spot News Reporting

Staff of The New York Times

For its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
Finalists:
Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times
Staff of Los Angeles Times
Beat Reporting

Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of The Detroit News

For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
Finalists:
Joan Connell of Newhouse News Service
John Woestendiek of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Spot News Photography

Paul Watson of The Toronto Star

For his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
Finalists:
Kevin Carter of The New York Times
Staff of Los Angeles Times

Special Citations

Books, Drama & Music

Category
Winners
Finalists
Music

Of Reminiscences and Reflections , by Gunther Schuller

Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Ky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.
Finalists:
Still Movement with Hymn , by Aaron Jay Kernis
Microsymphony , by Charles Wuorinen
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