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The 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting
For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).

Gannett News Service , by Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe

For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1991:

Bruce D. Butterfield

For his series describing child labor abuses in nine states.

Charles Green

For a series examining the problems and failures of the Medicaid health care system.

The Jury

David Kraslow(Chair)

Vice President, Cox Newspapers, Miami, Fla.

Jennie Buckner

Vice President/News, Knight-Ridder

Robert W. Ritter

Editor, Gannett News Service

Andrew Schneider*

National Correspondent, Pittsburgh Press and Scripps Howard News Service

H.L. Stevenson

Corporate Editor, Crain Communications

Winners in National Reporting

1989

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.
1988

Tim Weiner

For his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup.
1987

Staff

For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S. -- Iran-Contra connection.
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1991 Prize Winners

Commentary

Jim Hoagland

For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Criticism

David Shaw

For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.
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