For distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction, due account being taken of the whole volume of the editorial writer’s work during the year, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).
Chicago Tribune , by R. Bruce Dold
For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 1994:
Editorial Board
For editorials urging the reform of Alabama's failing public school system.
Jim Montgomery
For a series of editorials examining the benefits and drawbacks of drug legalization.
The Jury
The Jury
Steven B. Ford(chair )
associate editor
Maria Henson*
editorial writer
J. Keith Moyer
editor and vice president-news
David D. Porter
chief editorial writer
Michael Skube*
book editor
Winners in Editorial Writing
Maria Henson
For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms.
Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
Thomas J. Hylton
For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.
1994 Prize Winners
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld
For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
William Raspberry
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Lloyd Schwartz
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.