1989 Pulitzer Prize
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Winners of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize by Category
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- Anchorage Daily News, for reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms.
- General News Reporting:
- Staff of Louisville Courier-Journal, for its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy.
- Investigative Reporting:
- Bill Dedman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies.
- Explanatory Journalism:
- David Hanners, reporter, William Snyder, photographer, and Karen Blessen, artist of The Dallas Morning News, for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety.
- Specialized Reporting:
- Edward Humes of The Orange County Register, for his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California.
- National Reporting:
- Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for their 15-month investigation of rifle shot provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.
- International Reporting:
- Bill Keller of The New York Times, for resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R.
- International Reporting:
- Glenn Frankel of The Washington Post, for sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.
- Feature Writing:
- David Zucchino of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his richly compelling series, Being Black in South Africa.
- Commentary:
- Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, for his provocative columns on local and national affairs.
- Criticism:
- Michael Skube of the News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina. For his writing about books and other literary topics.
- Editorial Writing:
- Lois Wille of the Chicago Tribune, for her editorials on a variety of local issues.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Jack Higgins of the Chicago Sun-Times.
- Spot News Photography:
- Ron Olshwanger, a free-lance photographer, for a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.
- Feature Photography:
- Manny Crisostomo of the Detroit Free Press, for his series of photographs depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Drama:
- The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein (Fireside Theatre)
- History:
- History:
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Poetry:
- General Non-fiction:
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
- Music:
- Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters)
premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
- Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters)
