The Pulitzer Prizes
JOURNALISM:
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Wall Street Journal
Finalists: The Birmingham ( Alabama) News;
The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
The staff of The Oregonian, Portland
Finalists: The staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky;
The Staff of The Denver Post
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham ( Alabama) News
Finalists: Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo, and Steve Miletich of The Seattle Times; Michael J. Berens, Julia Sommerfeld, and Carol Ostrom of The Seattle Times; Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of The Hartford Courant
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, and Rick Loomis
of the Los Angeles Times
Finalists: Joanne Kimberlin and Bill Sizemore of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk; the staff of The New York Times
LOCAL REPORTING
Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald
Finalists: the staff of The Boston Globe; Fred Schulte and June Arney of The Baltimore Sun
NATIONAL REPORTING
Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe
Finalists: Maurice Possley and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune; Les Zaitz, Jeff Kosseff, and Bryan Denson of The Oregonian, Portland
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
The staff of The Wall Street Journal
Finalists: The staff of the Los Angeles Times; Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post
FEATURE WRITING
Andrea Elliott of The New York Times
Finalists: Christopher Goffard
of the St. Petersburg Times;
Inara Verzemnieks of
The Oregonian, Portland
COMMENTARY
Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Finalists: Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post; Joe Nocera of The New York Times
CRITICISM
Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly
Finalists: Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times; Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times
EDITORIAL WRITING
Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub, and Heidi Evans of the New York Daily News
Finalists: Jane Healy of The Orlando Sentinel; Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post
EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, New York
Finalists: Nick Anderson of The Houston Chronicle; Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Oded Balilty of The Associated Press
Finalists: The staff of The Associated Press; Michael Bryant of The Philadelphia Inquirer
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee
Finalists: Mary F. Calvert of The Washington Times; Gary Coronado of The Palm Beach Post
Letters And Drama
FICTION
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
Finalists: After This by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
DRAMA
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Finalists: Orpheus X by Rinde Eckert; Bulrusher by Eisa Davis; Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue by
Quiara Alegría Hudes
HISTORY
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
Finalists: Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell (The Penguin Press); Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by
Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
BIOGRAPHY
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
Finalists: John Wilkes: The
Scandalous Father of Civil
Liberty by Arthur H. Cash
( Yale University Press); Andrew Carnegie by David
Nasaw (The Penguin Press)
POETRY
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
Finalists: The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada (W.W. Norton); Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004 by David Wojahn ( University of Pittsburgh Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION
The Looming Tower:
Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by LawrenceWright
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Finalists: Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
by Pete Earley (G.P. Putnam’s Sons); Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
(The Penguin Press)
MUSIC
“Sound Grammar” by Ornette Coleman
Finalists:“Grendel” by Elliot Goldenthal, Libretto by Julie Taymor and J. D. McClatchy; “Astral Canticle” by Augusta Read Thomas
The Lukas Prize Project
Co-administered by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.
J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE
Lawrence Wright for The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)
MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE
James T. Campbell for Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (The Penguin Press)
J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD
Robert Whitaker for Twelve Condemned to Die: Scipio Africanus Jones and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation (Crown)
John B. Oakes Award
Distinguished Environmental Journalism
“Altered Oceans,” Los Angeles Times
John Chancellor Award
EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
Henry Weinstein of the Los Angeles Times
The Mike Berger Award
EXCELLENCE IN HUMAN-INTEREST REPORTING
Abigail Tucker of The ( Baltimore) Sun
The 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Winners
American Masters and wnet , New York, for Bob Dylan: No Direction Home on PBS
Brook Lapping Productions, London, for Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace on PBS
wgbh ’s Cape and Islands NPR stations for Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Discovery Times Channel, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and The New York Times for Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?
Frontline and wgbh for The Age of AIDS on pbs
hbo , Jon Alpert, and Matthew O’Neill for Baghdad ER
itvs , Lisa Sleeth, and Jim Butterworth for Independent Lens:
Seoul Train on pbs
nbc Nightly News and Dateline for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
kcet , Los Angeles, kpbs , San Diego, kqed , San Francisco, and kvie, Sacramento , for California Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D
npr for coverage of Iraq
wbal-tv, Baltimore , for Dirty Secret
wlox-tv, Biloxi, for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
wral-tv, Raleigh , for Focal Point: Paper Thin Promise and Standards of Living
wwl-tv, New Orleans, for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
GENERAL EXCELLENCE
Under 100,000 circulation
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Finalists
I.D
Metropolis
The Virginia Quarterly Review
100,000 to 250,000 circulation
Foreign Policy
Finalists
Mother Jones
Philadelphia Magazine
Salt Water Sportsman
Seed
250,000 to 500,000 circulation
New York Magazine
Finalists
The Atlantic Monthly
Audubon
Cookie Magazine
Texas Monthly
500,00 to 1,000,000 circulation
Wired
Finalists
Condé Nast Traveler
The Economist
Esquire
Gourmet
GQ
1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circulation
Rolling Stone
Finalists
Entertainment Weekly
Field & Stream
More Magazine
The New Yorker
Over 2,000,000 circulation
National Geographic
Finalists
Glamour
Martha Stewart Living
O, The Oprah Magazine
Time
PERSONAL SERVICE
Glamour
Finalists
Bicycling
Field & Stream
Redbook
Wondertime
LEISURE INTERESTS
O, The Oprah Magazine
Finalists
Esquire
Golf Digest Magazine
Men’s Health
Wired
REPORTING
Esquire
Finalists
Fortune
IEEE Spectrum
Rolling Stone
Time
PUBLIC INTEREST
Vanity Fair
Finalists
The Atlantic Monthly
Best Life
New York Magazine
The New Yorker
FEATURE WRITING
GQ
Finalists
Esquire (2 nominations)
The New Yorker
The Paris Review
PROFILE WRITING
New York Magazine
Finalists
Cincinnati Magazine
National Geographic
The New Yorker
Vanity Fair
ESSAYS
The Georgia Review
Finalists
Foreign Policy
New Letters
The New Yorker
Smithsonian
COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY
Vanity Fair
Finalists
Discover
Field & Stream
Newsweek
The New Yorker
REVIEWS AND CRITICISM
The Nation
Finalists
The Atlantic Monthly
GQ
Harper’s Magazine
The New Yorker
MAGAZINE SECTION
New York Magazine
Finalists
Condé Nast Traveler
Esquire (2 nominations)
Field & Stream
SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE
Departures
Finalists
Backpacker
The Believer
Columbia Journalism Review
Newsweek
DESIGN
New York Magazine
Finalists
The Believer
Gourmet
Outside
Seed
PHOTOGRAPHY
National Geographic
Finalists
Country Home
Gourmet
Martha Stewart Living
W
PHOTOJOURNALISM
The Paris Review
Finalists
Aperture
National Geographic
The New Yorker
Vanity Fair
PHOTO PORTFOLIO
City
Finalists
Details
Vogue
W
FICTION
McSweeney’s
Finalists
The New Yorker
Playboy
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Zoetrope: All-Story
GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE
Beliefnet.com
Finalists
BusinessWeek.com
ESPN.com
People.com
Slate
INTERACTIVE SERVICE
BusinessWeek.com B-School Channel
Finalists
The Chronicle of Higher Education Careers
Epicurious.com
nymag.com
Slate
INTERACTIVE FEATURE
nymag.com: “Show & Talk”
Finalists
Mother Jones: “Lie by Lie”
National Geographic Interactive Edition: Antarctica
Nerve Film Lounge
Newsweek.com: “The Boomer Files”
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