CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

• Gretchen Morgenson, Don Van Natta Jr., Peter S. Goodman and Jenny Anderson for "Back to Business" in The New York Times
• Michael Moss and Andrew Martin for "Food Safety" in The New York Times
• Charles Duhigg for "Toxic Waters" in The New York Times
• Mark Maremont for "The Talented Mr. Pang" in The Wall Street Journal
• Kate Kelly, Jon Hilsenrath, Dan Fitzpatrick, Susanne Craig, Deborah Solomon, Damian Paletta and David Enrich for "USA Inc.: The State of Capitalism" in The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS

• Rick Montgomery and Dan Margolies for "Enterprise Rent-A-Car Airbags" in The Kansas City Star
• Michael Sallah, Rob Barry and Lucy Komisar for "Keys to the Kingdom: How State Regulators Enabled a $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme" in The Miami Herald
• Raquel Rutledge for "Cashing in on Kids" in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Kirsten Grind and Alwyn Scott for "WaMu's Final Days" in Puget Sound Business Journal

CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES

• James Bandler, Nicholas Varchaver and Doris Burke for "How Bernie Did It" in Fortune Magazine
• Joe Nocera for "Risk Mismanagement" in The New York Times Magazine
• Nina Munk for "Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard" in Vanity Fair
• Fred Vogelstein for "Facebook Versus Google" in Wired Magazine

CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY

• David Leonhardt for "Economic Scene" in The New York Times
• Joseph E. Stiglitz for "Capitalist Fools and Wall Street's Toxic Message" in Vanity Fair
• Michael Wolff for "The Ultimate Bubble and Rupert to Internet: It's War!" in Vanity Fair
• Steven Pearlstein for "Commentary by Steven Pearlstein" in The Washington Post

CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS

• Matthew Goldstein for "Stanford Financial Coverage" in Bloomberg Businessweek
• Christine Tierney, David Shepardson and Gordon Trowbridge for "GM, Chrysler Nudged Toward Bankruptcy" in The Detroit News
• Louise Story for "Return of the Big Payday" in The New York Times
• Kate Kelly and Jon Hilsenrath for "New York Fed Chairman's Ties to Goldman Raise Questions" in The Wall Street Journal
• Brady Dennis, David Cho and Michael D. Shear for "AIG" in The Washington Post

CATEGORY F: BEAT WRITING

• Greg Sandoval for "SpiralFrog Coverage" in CNET
• Ralph Vartabedian and Ken Bensinger for "The Toyota Recall" in Los Angeles Times
• Michael Moss and Andrew Martin for "Food Safety" in The New York Times
• Aaron Kessler for "Contaminated Chinese Drywall" in Sarasota Herald-Tribune

CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES

• Ted Anthony, Christopher S. Rugaber, Mike Schneider, and Mike Baker for "AP: Economic Stress Index" in The Associated Press
• Matt Apuzzo and Daniel Wagner for "AP: Geithner's Phone Records" in The Associated Press
• Michael Rapoport for "Minding The Banks. . .And The Government" in Dow Jones Newswires
• Greg Gordon, Kevin G. Hall, and Chris Adams for "Goldman, Moody's and the Collapse of the American Economy" in McClatchy Newspapers

 CATEGORY H: FEATURE WRITING

• James Bandler and Doris Burke for "The Grifter?" in Fortune Magazine
• David Segal for "After the Meltdown" in The New York Times
• Michael Lewis for "Wall Street on the Tundra" in Vanity Fair
• Robert A. Guth, Susan Pulliam and Justin Scheck for "The Network" in The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY I: ONLINE COMMENTARY AND BLOGGING

• Adrian Wooldridge, Steven N. Kaplan, Nell Minow, Patrick Lane, Brad DeLong, Luigi Zingales, Saugato Datta, Thomas Piketty and Chris Edwards for "Online Debates" for The Economist
• David Pogue for "Pogue's Posts" for The New York Times
• Francine McKenna for "re: The Auditors" for re: The Auditors Blog
• Jim Prevor for "Business, Finances and Public Policy" for The Weekly Standard

CATEGORY J: PERSONAL FINANCE

• Ron Lieber and Andrew Martin for "The Card Game" in The New York Times
• Janet Paskin for "The Accidental 401(k) Planner" in SmartMoney Magazine
• Angie C. Marek for "Paging Dr. No" in SmartMoney Magazine
• Matthew Hathaway, Elizabethe Holland and Jim Gallagher for "From Prison to the Pinnacle" in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CATEGORY K: TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS

• Sharyl Attkisson, Christopher Scholl, Matt Tureck, Rick Kaplan and Bill Piersol for "Follow the Money: Bailout Investigation" on CBS Evening News
• Armen Keteyian, John Blackstone, George Osterkamp, Yvonne Halee, Laura Strickler and Len Tepper for "Bernard Madoff Series" on CBS News
• Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Steve Kroft, Claudia Weinstein, Ira Rosen and Sumi Aggarwal for "401(k) Recession" on CBS News/60 Minutes
• Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Steve Kroft, Claudia Weinstein, Andy Court and Keith Sharman for "We Own It" on CBS News/60 Minutes
• Scott Cohn, Mary Thompson, Courtney Ford, Wally Griffith and Molly Mazilu for "The Madoff Scandal" on CNBC

CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

• Brian Ross, Joseph Rhee, Angela Hill, Rhonda Schwartz and Asa Eslocker for "Brian Ross Investigates: Runaway Toyotas" on ABC News
• Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Scott Pelley, Claudia Weinstein and Draggan Mihailovich for "Amazon Crude" on CBS News/60 Minutes
• David Faber, Mitch Weitzner, James Jacoby, Jill Landes and Patrick Ahearn for "House of Cards" on CNBC
• Marlena Telvick, Lowell Bergman, Oriana Zill de Granados and Daniel Hirst for "Black Money" on PBS Frontline
• Byron Harris, Mark Smith, Kraig Kirchem and Billy Bryant for "Safety for Sale" on WFAA-TV

CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOKS

• David Wessel for "In Fed We Trust" published by Crown Business
• Liaquat Ahamed for "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World" published by The Penguin Press
• Andrew Ross Sorkin for "Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves" published by Penguin Group (USA) - Viking