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1998 Pulitzer Prizes

Journalism

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Grand Forks (ND) Herald

For its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself.
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Staff of Los Angeles Times

For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.
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Gary Cohn and Will Englund of The Baltimore Sun

For their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled.
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Paul F. Salopek of Chicago Tribune

For his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people.
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Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News

For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.
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Staff of The New York Times

For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
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Thomas French of St. Petersburg Times

For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
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Mike McAlary of New York Daily News, New York, NY

For his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse.
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Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times

For her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature.
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Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale (NY) Press

For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
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Clarence Williams of Los Angeles Times

For his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.
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Martha Rial of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.
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Special Citations

George Gershwin

Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.

Books, Drama & Music

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Winners
Finalists

String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis), by Aaron Jay Kernis

Premiered on January 10, 1998, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
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