2000 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
• The Washington Post, notably for the work of Katherine Boo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.
• Breaking News Reporting:
• Staff of The Denver Post, for its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.
• Investigative Reporting:
• Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press, for revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge.
• Explanatory Reporting:
• Eric Newhouse of the Great Falls Tribune, for his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community.
• Beat Reporting:
• George Dohrmann of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, for his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men’s basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
• National Reporting:
• Staff of The Wall...... ... ...
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