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The 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting
For a distinguished example of investigative reporting within a newspaper's area of circulation by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).

Orlando (FL) Sentinel , by Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry

For exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists --most of them minorities-- by a sheriff's drug squad.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 1993:

Dave Davis and Ted Wendling

For their series about victims of botched radiation therapy and lax regulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other agencies.

James Heaney

For stories that identified the major causes of the decline of Buffalo's older neighborhoods and proposed possible solutions.

Terry Ganey, Michael D. Sorkin and Louis J. Rose

For investigations of corruption by a Missouri attorney general and a St. Louis chief prosecutor.

The Jury

Sydney P. Freedberg(Chair)

Staff Writer, Miami Herald

C. W. Johnson, Jr.

Managing Editor, The Tennessean

Forrest M. Landon

Vice President and Executive Editor, Roanoke Times & World News

Dan Malone*

Fort Worth Bureau Chief, The Dallas Morning News

Jerry Nachman

Former Editor, New York Post

Winners in Investigative Reporting

1990

Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison

For reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the St. Paul fire department and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of suspicious origin.
1989

Bill Dedman

For his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies.
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1993 Prize Winners

Commentary

Liz Balmaseda

For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
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