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1997 Pulitzer Prizes

Journalism

Category
Winners
Finalists

The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

For its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish.
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Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of The Seattle Times

For their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms.
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Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.
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John F. Burns of The New York Times

For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.
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Lisa Pollak of The Baltimore Sun

For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
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Michael Gartner of The Daily Tribune, Ames, Iowa

For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko of Associated Press

For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. (Moved by the Board from the Spot News Photography category.)
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Staff of Newsday, Long Island, NY

For its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath.
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Byron Acohido of The Seattle Times

For his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements.
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Annie Wells of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA

For her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters.
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Special Citations

Books, Drama & Music

Category
Winners
Finalists

Blood on the Fields, by Wynton Marsalis

Premiered on January 28, 1997 at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
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