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2000 Pulitzer Prizes

Journalism

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Winners
Finalists

The Washington Post, notably for the work of Katherine Boo

that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.
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Staff of The Denver Post

For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.
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Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza of Associated Press

For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge.
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Eric Newhouse of Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune

For his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community.
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Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.
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Mark Schoofs of The Village Voice

For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa.
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J.R. Moehringer of Los Angeles Times

For his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
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John C. Bersia of The Orlando Sentinel

For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.
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Photo Staff of Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO

For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
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George Dohrmann of St. Paul Pioneer Press

For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
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Special Citations

Books, Drama & Music

Category
Winners
Finalists

Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version, by Lewis Spratlan

Premiered on January 28, 2000 by Dinosaur Annex in Amherst, MA. Libretto by James Maraniss.
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