For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

The Kansas City Times , by Rick Atkinson

For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 1982:

For their series on live-birth abortions.

For its coverage of the attempted assassination of President Reagan.

Senior Assistant Managing Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Vice President and Editor, The Detroit News

President and Publisher, El Mundo, San Juan, P.R.

Vice President/News and Executive Editor, The Seattle Times

Executive Editor, Greensboro Daily News/Greensboro Record

1981

For his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration.

1980

For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.

1979

For a series on farming damage to the environment.

1978

For a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams.

Biography

Commentary

Criticism

For classical music criticism.

Drama