1998 Pulitzer Prize

Awards for journalism and related fields February 2025 A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998: Journalism Public ServiceGrand 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 ReportingLinda Greenhouse of The New York Times" ... for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court..."Spot News PhotographyMartha Rial of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" ... for her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi."Breaking News ReportingStaff of the Los Angeles Times" ... for its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood, Los Angeles."CommentaryMike McAlary of the New York Daily News" ... for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse."CriticismMichiko Kakutani of The New York Times" ... for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature."Editorial CartooningStephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press (Neptune City, New Jersey)Editorial WritingBernard 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 ReportingPaul 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 PhotographyClarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times" ... for his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs."Feature WritingThomas 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 ReportingStaff of The New York Times" ... for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. Investigative ReportingGary 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 ReportingRussell 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 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson (BasicBooks) General Nonfiction Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton) Poetry Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar) Drama How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel (TCG) 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 External links http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1998 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Category:Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize, 1998