Large Newspapers Category Finalists

• Ken Bensinger for "Wheels of Fortune" in Los Angeles Times
• David Kocieniewski for "But Nobody Pays That..." in The New York Times
• Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Stacy Meichtry, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Brian Blackstone and David Gauthier-Villars for "European Disunion" in The Wall Street Journal 
• Brody Mullins, Susan Pulliam, Steve Eder, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg and Vanessa O'Connell for "Inside Track" in The Wall Street Journal

Medium & Small Newspapers Category Finalists

• Jeff Horwitz for "Banks Took Billions in Insurance Kickbacks" in American Banker
• Raquel Rutledge, Rick Barrett, John Diedrich, Ben Poston and Mike de Sisti for "Shattered Trust" in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Spencer Soper and Scott Kraus for "Inside Amazon's Warehouse" in The Morning Call
• Charles Piller and Robert Lewis for "Hard Money Crumbles" in The Sacramento Bee

 Magazines Category Finalists

• Chrystia Freeland for "The Rise of the New Global Elite" in The Atlantic
• Peter Elkind, Jennifer Reingold and Doris Burke for "Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup" in Fortune
• Michael Lewis for "'When Irish Eyes Are Crying', 'It's the Economy, Dummkopf!' and 'California and Bust'" in Vanity Fair

Commentary Category Finalists

• Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, John Peet, Patrick Foulis and John O'Sullivan for "Euro Zone" in The Economist  
• Loren Steffy for "Loren Steffy - Commentary" in Houston Chronicle
• Joseph E. Stiglitz for "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" in Vanity Fair
• Ezra Klein for "Ezra Klein" in The Washington Post

 Breaking News Category Finalists

• Brent Snavely, Greg Gardner and Chrissie Thompson for "GM-UAW Contract Negotiations" in Detroit Free Press  
• Ben Protess, Michael J. de la Merced, Susanne Craig, Peter Lattman, Nelson D. Schwartz and Azam Ahmed for "MF Global Bankrupcy" in The New York Times
• Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld, Chad Bray, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jeannette Neumann, Jenny Strasburg, Michael Siconolfi and Dennis K. Berman for "The Fall of Raj" in The Wall Street Journal
• Zachary Goldfarb and Anthony Faiola for "The Downgrade" in The Washington Post

 Beat Reporting Category Finalists

• John Fauber for "'Side Effects' Beat Reporting" in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Kevin Krolicki, Deepa Seetharaman, Bernie Woodall, Ben Klayman and Jan Schwartz for "United Auto Workers Union Coverage" in Reuters
• Missy Sullivan for "Missy Sullivan -  Beat Reporting" in SmartMoney
• Jessica Silver-Greenberg for "The Debt Collectors" in The Wall Street Journal

 News Services Category Finalists

• Jeff Donn for "Aging Nukes" in The Associated Press
• Kevin Freking, Michael Hill, Danny Robbins, Tammy Webber, Peter Jackson and Jeffrey Collins for "Broken Budgets" in The Associated Press 
• Bradley Keoun, Phil Kuntz and Bob Ivry for "The Fed's Trillion-Dollar Secret" in Bloomberg News
• Brian Grow, Kelly Carr, Laurence Fletcher, Nanette Byrnes, Matthew Bigg, Joshua Schneyer, Cynthia Johnston and Sara Ledwith for "Shell Games" in Reuters

 Explanatory Category Finalists

• Devin Leonard, Sommer Saadi and Angela Greiling Keane for "End of Mail" in Bloomberg Businessweek
• Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Claudia Weinstein, Steve Kroft, Ira Rosen, Gabrielle Schonder, Tadd J. Lascari and Andy Soto for "The Insiders" on CBS News 60 Minutes
• Scott Pelley, Robert G. Anderson, Daniel Ruetenik, Robert J. Shattuck and Nicole Young for "The Next Housing Shock" on CBS News 60 Minutes
• Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story for "No Prosecutions" in The New York Times
• Peter Whoriskey, Steven Mufson, Jia Lynn Yang, Laura Stanton and Karen Yourish for "Breakaway Wealth" in The Washington Post

 Online Enterprise Category Finalists

• Ronnie Greene, Mark Schone and Matthew Mosk for "Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra" for The Center for Public Integrity and ABC News
• John Markoff, David Pogue, Shayla Harris, Shan Carter, Jon Huang, Celina Fang, Danielle Belopotosky, Laurie Kawakami and Joshua Brustein for "Steve Jobs - nytimes.com" for The New York Times
• Eliza Krigman for "AT&T Gave Cash to Merger Backers" for POLITICO
• Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty, Jon Keegan, Palani Kumanan, Sarah Slobin and Neil King Jr. for "Jet Tracker" for The Wall Street Journal

  Blogging Category Finalists

•  Catherine Rampell for "Catherine Rampell, Economix Blog -  nytimes.com" for The New York Times
• Felix Salmon for "Felix Salmon's Blog" for Reuters
• Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff and Brad Plumer for "Wonkblog" for The Washington Post
• Luke Timmerman for "BioBeat" for Xconomy

Personal Finance Category Finalists

• Penelope Wang, Kim Clark and Lisa Gibbs for "'Protecting Your Parents' Series" in Money
• Lisa Gibbs for "The Safety Trap" in Money
• Jason Zweig for "The Intelligent Investor" in The Wall Street Journal
• E.S. Browning for "Older and Poorer" in The Wall Street Journal

Broadcast Enterprise Category Finalists

• Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Mosk, Ronnie Greene, Mark Schone and Angela Hill for "Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra" on ABC News Brian Ross Investigate and The Center for Public Integrity
• Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Michael Radutzky, Claudia Weinstein, Steve Kroft, Andy Court, Kevin Livelli and Stephanie Palewski Brumbach for "Greg Mortenson" on CBS News 60 Minutes
• Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Mary Noonan Robichaux, Na Eng, Ruth Chenetz and Lauren Farrelly for "Billions Behind Bars: Inside America's Prison Industry" on CNBC
• Laura Sydell and Alex Blumberg for "When Patents Attack" on NPR and This American Life Collaboration
• Mark Smith, Byron Harris and Billy Bryant for "Crooked Teeth" on WFAA-TV
 

Business Books Category Finalists

• Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo for "Poor Economics" published by PublicAffairs
• Walter Isaacson for "Steve Jobs" published by Simon & Schuster
• Diana B. Henriques for "The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust" published by Times Books
• Bill Vlasic for "Once Upon a Car" published by William Morrow