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The 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting
For a distinguished example of reporting of international affairs, including United Nations correspondence, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

San Jose (CA) Mercury News , by Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison

For their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 1986:

Jacqui Banaszynski

For her personalized account of African famine victims in Sudan, "The Trail of Tears."

Robert J. Rosenthal

For his sustained and comprehensive reportage from South Africa.

The Jury

Peter R. Kann(Chair)*

Associate Publisher, The Wall Street Journal

Robert H. Estabrook

Publisher and Editorial Director, Lakeville (Conn.) Journal

Angus McEachran

Editor, Pittsburgh Press

Geneva Overholser

Deputy Editorial Page Editor, Des Moines Register

Roger Tartarian

Professor of Journalism, California State University, Fresno

Winners in International Reporting

1984

Karen Elliott House

For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan.
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1986 Prize Winners

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