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A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:
Journalism
| Public Service | Grand Forks Herald (N.D.) | " ... for its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself..." |
| Beat Reporting | Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times | " ... for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court..." |
| Spot News Photography | Martha Rial of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | " ... for her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi." |
| Breaking News Reporting | Staff of the Los Angeles Times | " ... for its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood, Los Angeles." |
| Commentary | Mike McAlary of the New York Daily News | " ... for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse." |
| Criticism | Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times | " ... for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature." |
| Editorial Cartooning | Stephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press (Neptune City, New Jersey) | |
| Editorial Writing | Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly journal | " ... for his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents." |
| Explanatory Reporting | Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune | " ... for his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people." |
| Feature Photography | Clarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times | " ... for his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs." |
| Feature Writing | Thomas French of the St. Petersburg Times | " ... for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders and eventual capture of Oba Chandler." |
| International Reporting | Staff of The New York Times | " ... for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. |
| Investigative Reporting | Gary Cohn and Will Englund of The Baltimore Sun | " ... for their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled." |
| National Reporting | Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News | " ... for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms." |
Letters
- Biography or Autobiography
- Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Fiction
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
- History
- General Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)
- Drama
- Music
- String Quartet No. 2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis (Associated Music Publishers)
Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
Special Awards and Citations
- Special Citation
- George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
References
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