For a distinguished example of general or spot news reporting within a newspaper's local area of circulation, preferably by an individual, giving consideration to alertness, resourcefulness and high quality of writing, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
San Diego (CA) Evening Tribune , by Staff
For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city.
The Jury
The Jury
Claude Sitton(Chair)
Editorial Director and Vice President, The News and Observer/Raleigh Times
H. Brandt Ayers
Editor and Publisher, Anniston (Ala.) Star
William A. Brower
Associate Editor, Toledo Blade
John B. Johnson, Jr.
Managing Editor, Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times
Charlotte Saikowski
Chief Editorial Writer, The Christian Science Monitor
Winners in Local General or Spot News Reporting
Richard Whitt
For his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Ky., and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.
Margo Huston
For her reports on the elderly and the process of aging.
Gene Miller
For his persistent and courageous reporting over eight and one-half years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida.
Staff
For its coverage, under enormous difficulties, of the tornado that wrecked the city on April 3, 1974.