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The 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service
For a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources which may include editorials, cartoons, and photographs, as well as reporting, a gold medal.

Akron Beacon Journal , by Akron Beacon Journal

For its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Public Service in 1994:

Staff

For the work of Eileen Welsome, which related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.

Staff

For its year-long examination of child homicide, which focused individual attention on 61 children and the circumstances of their deaths.

The Jury

Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.(chair )*

professor of journalism

Foster Davis

managing editor

Michael O'Neill

former editor

Rick Rodriguez

managing editor

Rochelle Sharpe*

reporter

Winners in Public Service

1993

The Miami Herald

For coverage that not only helped readers cope with Hurricane Andrew's devastation but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction.
1992

The Sacramento (CA) Bee

For "The Sierra in Peril," reporting by Tom Knudson that examined environmental threats and damage to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
1991

Des Moines Register

For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
1990

Washington (NC) Daily News

For revealing that the city's water supply was contaminated with carcinogens, a problem that the local government had neither disclosed nor corrected over a period of eight years.
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1994 Prize Winners

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