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2005 Pulitzer Prizes

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Journalism

Category
Winners
Finalists
Public Service

Los Angeles Times

For its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital.
Finalists:
Staff of Pensacola (FL) News Journal
Staff of Orange County Register
Breaking News Reporting

Staff of The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ

For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.
Finalists:
Staff of South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Staff of The Charlotte Sun, Charlotte Harbor, FL
Investigative Reporting

Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon

For his investigation exposing a former governor's long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
Finalists:
Diana B. Henriques of The New York Times
Clark Kauffman of Des Moines Register
Explanatory Reporting

Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe

For explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.
Finalists:
Staff of Newsday, Long Island, NY
William J. Broad and David E. Sanger of The New York Times
National Reporting

Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times

For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings.
Finalists:
Staff of The Washington Post
Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett of The Oregonian, Portland, OR
International Reporting

Kim Murphy of Los Angeles Times

For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work.

Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, NY

For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe.
Finalists:
Borzou Daragahi of The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ
Feature Writing

Julia Keller of Chicago Tribune

For her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois.
Finalists:
Robin Gaby Fisher of Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ
Anne Hull of The Washington Post
Commentary

Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged.
Finalists:
Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times
Tommy Tomlinson of The Charlotte (NC) Observer
Criticism

Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal

For his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit.
Finalists:
Frank Rich of The New York Times
Carlin Romano of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Editorial Writing

Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee

For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
Finalists:
Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post
David Yarnold and Daniel Vasquez of The Mercury News, San Jose, CA
Breaking News Photography

Staff of Associated Press

For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
Finalists:
Arko Datta of Reuters
Staff of Palm Beach Post
Feature Photography

Deanne Fitzmaurice of San Francisco Chronicle

For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.
Finalists:
Jim Gehrz of The Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Luis Sinco of Los Angeles Times
Beat Reporting

Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal

For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
Finalists:
Ronald Brownstein of Los Angeles Times
Dana Priest of The Washington Post
Editorial Cartooning

Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY

For his unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.
Finalists:
Garry Trudeau of Universal Press Syndicate
Don Wright of Palm Beach Post

Special Citations

Books, Drama & Music

Category
Winners
Finalists
Music

Second Concerto for Orchestra, by Steven Stucky (Theodore Presser Company)

Premiered March 12, 2004 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. (Theodore Presser Company)
Finalists:
You Are (Variations) , by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes)
Dialogues , by Elliot Carter (Boosey & Hawkes)
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