For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, in a United States newspaper, published daily, Sunday or at least once a week, during the year, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Nashville Tennessean , by Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham
For their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.
The Jury
The Jury
Everest P. Derthick
Managing Editor, Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
Alan Hathway
Managing Editor, Newsday, Garden City, N.Y.
Alden C. Waite
President, Copley Newspapers, Los Angeles, Calif.
J. Russell Wiggins
Editor, Washington (D.C.) Post
Winners in National Reporting
Edward R. Cony
For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.
Vance Trimble
For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States.
Howard Van Smith
For a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.
Clark Mollenhoff
For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance.
1962 Prize Winners
Edmund S. Valtman
For "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine," published on August 31, 1961.
Thomas M. Storke
For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society.