Journalism awards
- Beat reporting:
- Bob Keeler of Newsday , Long Island, New York. For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
- Spot News Reporting:
- Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times . For his highly skilled writing and reporting on deadline during the year.
Robert Dennis McFadden is an American journalist who has worked for The New York Times since 1961. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996.
The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 125 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The Times is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S.
- Spot News Photography:
- Charles Porter IV, a free-lancer. For his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman.
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02am and killed at least 168 people, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage. Extensive rescue efforts were undertaken by local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies in the wake of the bombing, and substantial donations were received from across the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activated 11 of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, consisting of 665 rescue workers who assisted in rescue and recovery operations. Until the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States, and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the country's history.
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. Its Statement of News Values and Principles spells out its standards and practices.
- Commentary:
- E.R. Shipp of the New York Daily News . For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
- Criticism:
- Robert Campbell of The Boston Globe . For his knowledgeable writing on architecture.
Robert Campbell is a writer and architect. He is currently an architecture critic for the Boston Globe. He lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872. The newspaper has won a total of 26 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2016, and with a total paid circulation of 245,824 from September 2015 to August 2016, it is the 25th most read newspaper in the United States. The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston.
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Editorial Writing:
- Robert B. Semple, Jr. of The New York Times . For his editorials on environmental issues.
- Explanatory Reporting:
- Laurie Garrett of Newsday, Long Island, New York. For her courageous reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak there. (The winner was entered and nominated in the International Reporting category and was moved by the Pulitzer Prize Board to Explanatory Journalism.)
- Feature Photography:
- Stephanie Welsh, a free-lancer. For her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female genital cutting rite in Kenya.
- Feature Writing:
- Rick Bragg of The New York Times . For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
- International Reporting:
- David Rohde of The Christian Science Monitor . For his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
- Investigative Reporting:
- Staff of The Orange County Register , Santa Ana, California. For reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms.
- National Reporting:
- Alix M. Freedman of The Wall Street Journal . For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
- Public Service:
- The News & Observer , Raleigh, North Carolina. For the work of Melanie Sill, Pat Stith and Joby Warrick on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry.
The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was presented from 1991 to 2006 for a distinguished example of beat reporting characterized by sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a particular subject or activity.
Newsday is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. As of 2009, its weekday circulation of 377,500 was the 11th-highest in the United States, and the highest among suburban newspapers. In 2012, Newsday expanded to include Rockland and Westchester county news on its website. As of January 2014, Newsday's total average circulation was 437,000 on weekdays, 434,000 on Saturdays and 495,000 on Sundays.
Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area colloquially use the term Long Island to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are mainly suburban in character, conversely employing the term the City to mean Manhattan alone.
