2016 FINALISTS

 

Audio Category Finalists  

• Dana Wolfe, John Donvan, Robert Rosenkranz, Clea Conner Chang, Kris Kamikawa, Alison Russell, Amy Krafft, Adelaide Mandeville, Lia Matthow, Shea O'Meara, Taylor Quimby, Rob Christiansen, Damon Whittemore and Katie Kemple for "Central Banks Can Print Prosperity" - Intelligence Squared U.S.
• Rebecca Plevin for "Navigating the Costly World of Health Care" - KPCC
• Chris Arnold, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Lori Todd, John Ydstie,  Heidi Glenn, Ariel Zambelich, Avie Schnieder, Alyson Hurt and Annette Elizabeth Allen for "Your Money and Your Life" - NPR
• Colleen DeBaise, Sue Williams, Victoria Wang, Nusha Balyan, Sam Shinn and Michelle Ciotta for "Succeeding as a Woman in Tech - Shaan Kandawalla, Melody McCloskey, Amy Sheng" - The Story Exchange

Beat Reporting Category Finalists

• Dan Murtaugh, Lynn Doan, Harry R. Weber and David Wethe for "The Shale Boom Blows Up" - Bloomberg News
• Jenny Deam for "Healthcare Reporting" - Houston Chronicle
• Paul Kiel, Annie Waldman and Al Shaw for "The Color of Debt" - ProPublica
• John Carreyrou, Michael Siconolfi and Christopher Weaver for "Testing Theranos" - The Wall Street Journal

Breaking News Category Finalists

• David McLaughlin, Todd Shields, Gerry Smith, Lucas Shaw, Alex Sherman and Ed Hammond for "Cable Cut" - Bloomberg News
• Kavita Kumar, Adam Belz, Mike Hughlett, Joe Carlson and Kristen Leigh Painter for "Target Exits Canada" - Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Jason Del Rey, Kurt Wagner and Kara Swisher for "Jack Dorsey's Third Act" - Re/code
• John Hilsenrath, Ben Leubsdorf, Greg Ip, Sudeep Reddy, Josh Zumbrun, Jeffrey Sparshott, Patricia Minczeski, Martin Burch, Elliot Bentley and Rachel Louise Ensign for "Fed Rate Increase" - The Wall Street Journal
• David Benoit, Jacob Bunge, Dana Cimilluca, Dana Mattioli and Dennis K. Berman for "Inside the Dow-DuPont Merger" - The Wall Street Journal  

Commentary Category Finalists  

• Peter Coy for "'Opening Remarks' Columns" - Bloomberg Businessweek
• Michael Hiltzik for "The Economy Hub" - Los Angeles Times
• Joe Nocera for "Commentary from Joe Nocera" - The New York Times
• James B. Stewart for "Inside the Boardroom" - The New York Times
• Matt O'Brien for "International Turbulence" - The Washington Post

Explanatory Category Finalists

• Paul Ford for "Code: An Essay" - Bloomberg Businessweek
• Ellen Gabler for "Hidden Errors" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld for "Inside Amazon" - The New York Times
• Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes and Lena Groeger for "Insult to Injury: America's Vanishing Worker Protections" - ProPublica & NPR
• Karen Brettell, David Gaffen, David Rohde and Timothy Aeppel for "The Cannibalized Company" - Reuters

Feature Category Finalists

• Jason Clenfield for "The Passport King" - Bloomberg Markets
• Laurie Segall, Erica Fink, Jason Farkas, Contessa Gayles, Greg Chen, Megan Pendergrass, Daniel Ho and Craig Waxman for "Revenge Porn: The Cyberwar Against Women" - CNNMoney
• Jennifer Hiller for "Smell of Money: Oil and Ranching in South Texas" - San Antonio Express-News
• David Enrich for "The Unraveling of Tom Hayes" - The Wall Street Journal
• Chico Harlan for "A Region Left Behind: Lost Opportunity in the Deep South" - The Washington Post

Images/Graphics/Interactives Category Finalists  

• Christopher Cannon, Patrick Clark, Keith Collins, Jan Dash, Jeremy Scott Diamond, Blacki Migliozzi, Laurie Meisler, Anders Melin, Adam Pearce, Mira Rojanasakul, Eric Roston, Alex Tribou and Yan Zhang for "Bloomberg: Interactive Graphics" - Bloomberg News
• Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon, Chris Zubak-Skees and Cecile Schilis-Gallego for "Fatal Extraction" - The Center for Public Integrity & The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
• Amanda Cox, Gregor Aisch, Kevin Quealy, Matthew Bloch, Wilson Andrews, Josh Keller, Karen Yourish, Eric Buth, Nicholas Confessore and Sarah Cohen for "Making Data Visual" - The New York Times
• Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei for "Debt by Degrees" - ProPublica

International Category Finalists

• Sasha Chavkin, Ben Hallman, Michael Hudson, Cecille Schilis-Gallego, Shane Shifflett and Jocelyn Zuckerman for "Evicted & Abandoned" - The International Consortium of  Investigative Journalists & The Huffington Post
• Ian Urbina for "The Outlaw Ocean" - The New York Times
• Stephen Grey, Audrey Kuzmin, Jack Stubbs, Roman Anin and Elizabeth Piper for "Comrade Capitalism" - Reuters
• Tom Wright, Bradley Hope, Simon Clark, Mia Lamar, Justin Baer, Tom Di Fonzo and Paolo Bosonin for "Malaysia's Missing Millions" - The Wall Street Journal

Investigative Category Finalists

• Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan for "Seafood from Slaves" - The Associated Press
• Peter Elkind for "Inside the Hack of the Century" - Fortune
• Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery and Robert Gebeloff for "Beware the Fine Print" - The New York Times
• Mike Baker and Daniel Wagner for "The Mobile-Home Trap" - The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity & BuzzFeed News  

Local Category Finalists

• Jeffrey Meitrodt for "Tragic Harvest" - Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Denise M. Bonilla, Carl MacGowan, Maura McDermott and Deon J. Hampton for "Zombie Houses" - Newsday
• Fedor Zarkhin for "Unsettling Dust" - The Oregonian
• Whit Richardson and Steve Mistler for "Payday at the Mill" - Portland Press Herald & Maine Sunday Telegram

Personal Finance Category Finalists 

• Daniel Miller for "Selling Stardom" - Los Angeles Times
• Jillian Berman for "Student Debt Crisis Coverage" - MarketWatch
• Donna Rosato, Kate Santichen, Alexandra Mondalek and Shayla Hunter for "Aging's Costliest Challenge" - MONEY Magazine
• Morgan Housel for "Morgan Housel Columns" - The Wall Street Journal & The Motley Fool 

Video Category Finalists 

• Pamela McClintock, Kim Masters, Jen Laski and Stephanie Fischette for "Studio Chiefs Unleashed: 6 Top Execs Spar Over Gender Pay, Sony Hack and 'Star Wars' Box Office" - The Hollywood Reporter
• Jennifer Gollan, David Ritsher, Amanda Pike, Fernando Diaz, Richard Coolidge and Sara Just for "Are Bakken Oil Field Workers Dying for Cheap Gas?" - Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PBS NewsHour
• Sharyl Attkisson, Kim Skeen, Batt Humphreys, Bryan Barr, Lance Ing and Johnalynn Holland for "Taxpayer Beware: Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson" - Sinclair Broadcast Group
• Robert Libetti, Todd Cross and Lucette Lagnado for "The Double-Mastectomy Rebellion" - The Wall Street Journal
• Joanna Stern and Drew Evans for "Joanna Stern's Videos" - The Wall Street Journal

 

2015 FINALISTS

 

Beat Reporting Category Finalists

• Zachary R. Mider for "Tax Runaways" - Bloomberg News
• Michael Brick for "Michael Brick, Texas Energy" - Houston Chronicle
• David Sirota for "Public Money, Private Profits" - International Business Times
• Eric Lipton, Ben Protess, Nicholas Confessore and Brooke Williams for "Lobbying in America" - The New York Times

Breaking News Category Finalists

• Aaron Kirchfeld, Matthew Campbell, Jeffrey McCracken, Vidya Root, Helene Fouquet and Francois de Beaupuy for "GE vs. France" - Bloomberg News
• Matthew Garrahan and Tim Bradshaw for "Apple Beats" - The Financial Times
• Melody Petersen, Ralph Vartabedian, W.J. Hennigan, Christine Mai-Duc, Ruben Vives and Shan Li for "Virgin Galactic Crash" - Los Angeles Times
• Dominic Gates, Rami Grunbaum and Jim Brunner for "SeaTimes Breaking News: Boeing Machinist Contract Vote Showdown" - The Seattle Times
• Gregory Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind for "Abdication of the 'Bond King'" - The Wall Street Journal

Commentary Category Finalists

• Shirley Leung for "Shirley Leung Columns" - The Boston Globe
• Michael Hiltzik for "Michael Hiltzik, Business Columnist" - Los Angeles Times
• Jesse Eisinger for "Wall Street Accountability" - ProPublica
• Matt O'Brien for "Global Inequality" - The Washington Post

Explanatory Category Finalists

• Matt Drange, Susanne Rust, Michael I. Schiller and The Guardian US Interactives Team for "Toxic Trail" - The Center for Investigative Reporting
• Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers for "Borrowing Trouble" - Chicago Tribune
• Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, Zahra Hirji, Paul Horn, Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins, Ben Wieder, Alan Suderman, Greg Gilderman, Neil Katz and Katie Wiggin for "Big Oil, Bad Air" - InsideClimate News, The Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel
• Krissy Clark, Noel King, Caitlin Esch and Lindsay Thomas for "York & Fig" - Marketplace
• Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating for "The Business of Dying" - The Washington Post

Feature Category Finalists

• David Voreacos and Jeff Plungis for "Death on the Highway" - Bloomberg News
• Peter Elkind for "Inside Elon Musk's $1.4 Billion Score" - Fortune
• Jennifer Reingold for "How to Fail in Business While Really, Really Trying" - Fortune
• Tom Philpott and Matt Black for "California Goes Nuts" - Mother Jones

Images/Visuals Category Finalists

• Matt Smith, Jennifer Gollan and Michael I. Schiller for "Techsploitation" - The Center for Investigative Reporting
• Chris Zubak-Skees for "2014 Interactive Graphics" - The Center for Public Integrity
• Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews, Jeremy Ashkenas, Matthew Bloch, Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, Haeyoun Park, Alicia Parlapiano and Archie Tse for "Economic Tools & Visualizations" - The New York Times
• Paul Antonson, Andrew Beaton, Martin Burch, Chris Canipe, Drew Evans, Madeline Farbman, Marc LaJoie, Jonathan Keegan, Roger Kenny, Steven Kutz, Nick Shearman, Mike Sudal, Adam Suharja, Stuart Thompson, Christopher Weaver and Kurt Wilberding for "The Wall Street Journal: Interactive Graphics" - The Wall Street Journal

International Category Finalists

• Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tom Lasseter for "The Bleakest Side of India's Modernization" - Bloomberg L.P.
• Lynn Hicks and Rodney White for "Feeding China" - Des Moines Register
• Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti for "Product of Mexico" - Los Angeles Times
• T. Christian Miller, Jonathan Jones, Marcela Gaviria, Will Cohen and Ashley Gilbertson for "Firestone and the Warlord" - ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE

Investigative Category Finalists

• Daniel Wagner and Eleanor Bell for "Profiting from Prisoners" - The Center for Public Integrity
• John Fauber, Elbert Chu and Coulter Jones for "Drug Approvals Investigation" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today
• Hilary Stout, Danielle Ivory, Rebecca R. Ruiz, Hiroko Tabuchi, Bill Vlasic, Matthew L. Wald, Rachel Abrams, Poh Si Teng, Wilson Andrews and Gregor Aisch for "Fatal Flaws in Auto Safety" - The New York Times
• Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Rob Barry, Anna Wilde Mathews and Tom McGinty for "Medicare Unmasked" - The Wall Street Journal

Local Category Finalists

• Mike Hendricks and Mará Rose Williams for "Misleading March to the Top" - The Kansas City Star
• John Diedrich, Bill Schulz and Gary D'Amato for "Death in the Ring" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt for "Unchecked Care" - Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Ivan Penn for "Duke Energy" - Tampa Bay Times

Personal Finance Category Finalists

• Alison Fitzgerald and Jared Bennett for "Florida's Foreclosure Crisis" - The Center for Public Integrity
• Susan Tompor for "Helping Retirees Navigate Pension Cuts in Detroit's Bankruptcy" - Detroit Free Press
• Ann Marsh, Scott Wenger and Kamrhan Farwell for "Could Financial Planning Help Stem the Rate of Military Suicides?" - Financial Planning
• Jean Eaglesham and Rob Barry for "Tracking Troubled Brokers" - The Wall Street Journal

Video/Audio Category Finalists

• Cindy Galli, Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Angela Hill and Lee Ferran for "ABC News Brian Ross Investigates: Deadly Impact" - ABC News
• Vicky Nguyen, Kevin Nious, Jeremy Carroll, Felipe Escamilla, David Paredes, Julie Putnam and Mark Villarreal for "Inside Sysco: Exposing North America's Food Sheds" - KNTV
• Chris Arnold, Paul Kiel, Neal Carruth, Uri Berliner and Tracy Weber for "The Unseen Toll of Wage Garnishment" - NPR and ProPublica
• Jason Bellini for "The Short Answer: MH370" - The Wall Street Journal

 

2014 FINALISTS

Beat Reporting Category Finalists

• Alana Semuels for "The Workplace" - Los Angeles Times
• Binyamin Appelbaum for "Fed Succession" - The New York Times
• Carrick Mollenkamp and Cezary Podkul for "Uneasy Money" - Reuters
• Ivan Penn for "Duke Energy and Nuclear Power in Florida" - Tampa Bay Times

Breaking News Category Finalists

• Terry Maxon, Michael A. Lindenberger, Mitchell Schnurman and Cheryl Hall for "American Airlines Merger" - The Dallas Morning News
• Nathan Bomey, Susan Tompor, Greg Gardner, Mark Phelan, Alisa Priddle and Tom Walsh for "A New Leader for GM: Barra Makes History" - Detroit Free Press
• James Yardley, Julfikar Ali Manik and Steven Greenhouse for "Bangladesh" - The New York Times
• Dominic Gates for "Boeing Grounded" - The Seattle Times

Commentary Category Finalists

• Peter Coy for "Peter Coy Columns and Commentary" - Bloomberg Businessweek
• Matt Levine for "Today in Why Aren't More Bankers in Jail"  - Bloomberg VIEW
• Loren Steffy for "Loren Steffy Columns" - Houston Chronicle
• Peter Goodman for "Commentary by Peter Goodman" - The Huffington Post

Explanatory Category Finalists

• Eamon Javers, Nikhil Deogun, Matthew Cuddy and Pat Anastasi for "CNBC's Eamon Javers - Early Data Release Coverage" - CNBC
• Noam Scheiber for "The Last Days of Big Law" - The New Republic
• Ian Urbina and Leslye Davis for "As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester" - The New York Times
• Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati for "Assets of the Ayatollah" - Reuters
• Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating for "The Cost of Healing" - The Washington Post

Images/Visuals Category Finalists

• Bård Edlund for "Sixty Seconds of Salary" - CNNMoney
• Ford Fessenden, Tom Giratikanon, Josh Keller, Archie Tse, Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, Jeremy White, Karen Yourish, Shan Carter, Hannah Fairfield, Alicia Parlapiano, Mike Bostock, Amanda Cox, Matthew Ericson Kevin Quealy and Josh Williams for "Interactive Graphics" - The New York Times  
• Scott M. Austin, Lakshmi Ketineni, Paul Antonson, Spencer E. Ante, Ryan Knutson, Thomas Gryta and Ben Fox Rubin for "WSJ's Wireless Savings Calculator" - The Wall Street Journal
• Janet Adamy, Neal Mann, Jarrard Cole, Paul Antonson, Andy Regal and Louise Radnofsky for "Prescribed" - The Wall Street Journal

International Category Finalists

• Raymond Bonner and Christine Spolar for "Death in Singapore" - Financial Times
• Kerry A. Dolan and Rafael Marques de Morais for "The Shortest Route to Riches" - Forbes
  
• James Yardley, Stephanie Clifford, Steven Greenhouse, Ian Urbina and Keith Bradsher for "Garment Industry" - The New York Times
• David Enrich, Jean Eaglesham, Atsuko Fukase and Jenny Strasburg  for "Unraveling the Mystery of Interest-Rate Manipulation" - The Wall Street Journal

Investigative Category Finalists

• Chris Hamby, Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross for "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" - The Center for Public Integrity, in partnership with ABC News
• Katherine Eban for "Dirty Medicine" - Fortune
• A.C. Thompson, Jonathan Jones, Hanna Trudo, Carl Byker, Katie Taber and Kate McMahon for "Life and Death in Assisted Living" - ProPublica/FRONTLINE
• Debbie Cenziper, Michael Sallah and Steven Rich for "Tax Liens: Left With Nothing" - The Washington Post

Magazines Category Finalists

• Cam Simpson for "Stranded: an iPhone Tested Caught in Supply Chain" - Bloomberg Businessweek
• Andy Greenberg and Ryan Mac for "Big Brother's Brain" - Forbes
• Jennifer Reingold for "Squeezing Heinz"- Fortune
• Alexandra Robbins for "Children Are Dying" - Washingtonian

News Services Category Finalists

• Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, Bob Ivry and Ambereen Choudhury for "Rigging the World's Biggest Market" - Bloomberg News
• Scot Paltrow and Kelly Carr for "Unaccountable" - Reuters

Newspapers - Large Category Finalists

• Rong-Gong Lin II, Rosanna Xia and Doug Smith for "A Concrete Risk" - Los Angeles Times
• Jessica Silver-Greenberg for "Predators/Bank Abuses" - The New York Times
• Alison Young, John Hillkirk and Shannon Green for "Supplement Shell Game" - USA Today
• Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, Ellen Nakashima, Craig Timberg, Steven Rich and Ashkan Soltani for "Five of the NSA Stories" - The Washington Post

Newspapers - Small & Medium Category Finalists

• Eric Eyre and David Gutman for "The Meth Menace" - Charleston Gazette
• Ellen Gabler, Mark Johnson, John Fauber, Allan James Vestal and Kristyna Wentz-Graff for "Deadly Delays" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Melody Petersen for "Deeper in Debt" - Orange County Register
• Colin Woodard for "The Lobbyist in the Henhouse" - Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
• Anthony Cormier and Michael Braga for "Breaking the Banks" - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Online Category Finalists

• Kainaz Amaria, Alex Blumberg, Brian Boyer, Jacob Goldstein and Wes Lindamood for "Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt" - NPR
• T. Christian Miller and Jeff Gerth for "Overdose" - ProPublica
• Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, Jennifer LaFleur, Jeff Larson and Lena Groeger for "The Prescribers" - ProPublica  

Personal Finance Category Finalists

• Steve Kroft, Jeff Fager, James Jacoby, Michael Karzis and Matthew Lev for "60 Minutes: 40 Million Mistakes" - CBS News
• E. Scott Reckard for "Wells Fargo Sales Quotas Come at a Cost" - Los Angeles Times
• Paul Kiel and Mitchell Hartman for "Debt Inc." - ProPublica/Marketplace
• Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith, Ryan Knutson, Raney Aronson-Rath and David Fanning for "The Retirement Gamble" - RAINmedia for FRONTLINE

Video/Audio Category Finalists

• Mitch Weitzner, Brian Sullivan, Wally Griffith, Deborah Camiel, James Segelstein and Meghan Lisson for "CNBC's America's Gun: The Rise of the AR-15" - CNBC
• Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser, Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru for "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" - Kirk Documentary Group for FRONTLINE
• Martin Smith, Linda Hirsch, Ben Gold, Dan Sugarman, Raney Aronson-Rath, and David Fanning for "The Untouchables" - FRONTLINE
• Tisha Thompson, Rick Yarborough, Jeff Piper and Mike Goldrick for "Under the Hood: The AAMCO Investigation" - WRC-TV

2013 FINALISTS

Beat Reporting Category Finalists

• Erik Schatzker, Dawn Kopecki, Bradley Keoun, Stephanie Ruhle, Mary Childs, Christine Harper, Max Abelson and Rick Green for "Beached Whale: JPMorgan's Huge Loss" - Bloomberg News
• Tom Bergin for "Corporate Taxation Series" - Reuters
• Tim Logan, Lisa Brown, Jeremy Kohler, Tim Bryant and Steve Giegerich for "Roberts Brothers" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Chris Canipe, Mike Sudal and Sarah Slobin for "Dark Markets" - The Wall Street Journal
• Steven Mufson for "Shale Gas" - The Washington Post

Breaking News Category Finalists

• Elisabeth Behrmann, Brett Foley, Firat Kayakiran, Jesse Riseborough, Zachary R. Mider, Matthew Campbell, Simon Casey, Kevin Crowley and Jacqueline Simmons for "Glencore Xstrata: Deal of the Year" - Bloomberg News
• Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Peter Eavis, Nelson D. Schwartz, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nathaniel Popper, Edward Wyatt, Ben Protess, Mark Scott, Susanne Craig, Michael J. de la Merced and Annie Lowrey for "London Whale" - The New York Times
• Alistair Barr, John McCrank, Rodrigo Campos, Olivia Oran, Nadia Damouni, Suzanne Barlyn, Ryan Vlastelica, Jessica Toonkel, Edward Krudy and Alexei Oreskovic for "Facebook IPO Coverage" - Reuters
• Thomas Lee, David Phelps, Janet Moore, Paul McEnroe, Tony Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy and Eric Wieffering for "Best Buy CEO Resigns Under Cloud" - Star Tribune
• Anupreeta Das, Jenny Strasburg, Jacob Bunge, E.S. Browning, Telis Demos and Sharon Terlep for "Buying the Big Board" - The Wall Street Journal

Broadcast Category Finalists

• Sharyl Attkisson, Chris Licht, Rand Morrison, Sharon Hoffman, Gavin Boyle, Keith Summa, Kim Skeen, Pia Malbran, David Small and Nancy Wyatt for "The Business of Congress" - CBS News
• Martin Smith, Michael Kirk, Marcela Gaviria, Mike Wiser, Jim Gilmore, Tom Jennings and Doug Hamilton for "Money, Power and Wall Street" - FRONTLINE
• Joe Ducey, Lauren Gilger, Gerard Watson, Scott Sherman, Maria Tomasch and Aaron Wische for "Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect" - KNXV-TV
• Byron Harris, Billy Bryant, Jason Trahan and Mark Smith for "Denticaid: Medicaid Dental Abuse in Texas" - WFAA-TV

Commentary Category Finalists

• Brian McGrory for "It's Greed to Top All" - The Boston Globe
• John Gapper for "John Gapper (Financial Times)" - Financial Times
• Michael Hiltzik for "Michael Hiltzik on Business" - Los Angeles Times
• Morgan Housel for "Morgan Housel: On the Economy" - The Motley Fool
• Ilan Moscovitz for "On Financial Reform" - The Motley Fool

Explanatory Category Finalists

• Michael Kirk, Martin Smith, Marcela Gaviria, Mike Wiser, Jim Gilmore, Jason M. Breslow, Tom Jennings, Doug Hamilton, Callie T. Wiser and Sarah Moughty for "Money, Power and Wall Street" - FRONTLINE
• Mike McGraw and Alan Bavley for "Beef's Raw Edges" - The Kansas City Star
• John Schmid, Mike De Sisti, Lou Saldivar, Emily Yount and Nick Lujero for "Paper Cuts" - Milwaukee Journal SentinelCharles Duhigg, Keith Bradsher, David Barboza, David Kocieniewski, David Segal, Bill Vlasic, Hiroko Tabuchi, David Streitfeld, Steve Lohr and John Markoff for "The iEconomy" - The New York Times
• Thomas Frank and Christopher Schnaars for "Green Inc." - USA Today

Images/Visuals Category Finalists

• Kenneth Cukier, Peter Winfield and Ben Thompson for "Live Charts" - The Economist
• Tom Giratikanon, Amanda Cox, Sergio Pecanha, Alicia Parlapiano, Jeremy White, Robert Gebeloff, Ford Fessenden, Archie Tse, Alan McLean, Shan Carter, Mike Bostock and Matthew Ericson for "Economy Interactives" - The New York Times
• Samuel Aranda, Mauricio Lima, Andrea Bruce and Adam Ferguson for "The Euro Crisis" - The New York Times

International Category Finalists

• Mehul Srivastava, Andrew MacAskill and Adi Narayan for "Mother India Starves Her Children" - Bloomberg News
• Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Henry Sanderson, Chloe Whiteaker, Fan Wenxin, Michael Wei, Phil Kuntz and Ben Richardson for "Revolution to Riches" - Bloomberg News
• David Barboza and Sharon LaFraniere for "China's Secret Fortunes" - The New York Times

Investigative Category Finalists

• Ames Alexander, Karen Garloch, Joseph Neff and David Raynor for "Prognosis: Profits" - The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer
• Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne for "Playing With Fire" - Chicago Tribune
• David Barstow, Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab and Stephanie Clifford for "Wal-Mart Abroad" - The New York Times
• Ryan Knutson, Liz Day, Travis Fox, Habiba Nosheen and Martin Smith for "Cell Tower Deaths" - ProPublica and FRONTLINE
• Brian Grow, Anna Driver, Joshua Schneyer, Janet Roberts, Jeanine Prezioso, David Sheppard and John Shiffman for "Inside Chesapeake Energy" - Reuters

Magazines Category Finalists

• Drake Bennett for "Marriage at 30,000 Feet (United/Continental Merger)" - Bloomberg Businessweek
• David Evans for "Duping the Donors" - Bloomberg Markets
• Richard Behar for "Hess Oil's Russian Mob Problem" - Forbes
• Francine McKenna for "Social Media's Phony Accounting" and "Lying With Numbers" - Forbes
• Connie Bruck  for "Cashier du Cinema" - The New Yorker
• Robert Capps for "Why Things Fail" - Wired Magazine

News Services Category Finalists

• Jana Randow, Jeff Black, Gabi Thesing, Anchalee Worrachate, Simon Kennedy and James G. Neuger for "The Plan to Save the Euro" - Bloomberg News
• Tom Bergin for "Corporate Taxation Series" - Reuters
• Brian Grow, Anna Driver, Joshua Schneyer, Janet Roberts, Jeanine Prezioso, David Sheppard and John Shiffman for "Inside Chesapeake Energy" - Reuters

Newspapers - Large Category Finalists

• Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne for "Playing With Fire" - Chicago Tribune
• Charles Duhigg, Keith Bradsher, David Barboza, David Kocieniewski, David Segal, Bill Vlasic, Hiroko Tabuchi, David Streitfeld, Steve Lohr and John Markoff for "The iEconomy" - The New York Times
• David Barstow, Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab and Stephanie Clifford for "Wal-Mart Abroad" - The New York Times

Newspapers - Small & Medium Category Finalists

• Ames Alexander, Karen Garloch, Joseph Neff and David Raynor for "Prognosis: Profits" - The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer
• Mandy Locke and David Raynor for "Ghost Workers" - The News & Observer
• Colin Woodard for "Virtual Schools in Maine: The Profit Motive You May Not Know About" - Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
• Michael Sasso for "Gambling for Jobs" - The Tampa Tribune

Online Category Finalists

• Jim Morris, Chris Hamby and Ronnie Greene for "Hard Labor" - The Center for Public Integrity
• Matt Isaacs, Lowell Bergman and Stephen Engelberg for "Inside the Investigation of Leading Republican Money Man Sheldon Adelson" - Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley, ProPublica and FRONTLINE
• John Schmid, Mike De Sisti, Lou Saldivar, Emily Yount and Nick Lujero for "Paper Cuts" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Alison Young and Peter Eisler for "Ghost Factories" - USA TODAY

Personal Finance Category Finalists

• Lisa Gibbs, Ismat Sarah Mangla, Penelope Wang and Gary Weiss for "High Cost of Saying Goodbye Series" - Money Magazine
• Andrew Martin, Andrew W. Lehren, Ron Lieber and Tamar Lewin for "Degrees of Debt" - The New York Times
• Natasha Singer for "You for Sale" - The New York Times
• Jason Zweig for "The Intelligent Investor" - The Wall Street Journal

2012 FINALISTS

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

 

 

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

• "From the Pentagon to the Private Sector," by Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe
• "Deep Trouble," by Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Douglas A. Blackmon, Vanessa O'Connell, Alexandra Berzon and Ana Campoy, The Wall Street Journal
• "What They Know," by ulia Angwin, Nick Wingfield, Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane, The Wall Street Journal
• "Alaska Native Corporations," by Robert O'Harrow Jr.,  The Washington Post 

CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS

• "Side Effects," by John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors," by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
• "The Billion Dollar Boondoggle," by Ralph Cipriano, Philadelphia City Paper 
• "Contaminated Drywall Cover-Up," by Aaron Kessler and Joaquin Sapien, Sarasota Herald-Tribune with ProPublica
• "Seniors for Sale," by Michael J. Berens, The Seattle Times
• "Edifice Complex," by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES

• "Inside Foxconn," by Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan, Bloomberg Businessweek
• "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It," by Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock, Bloomberg Businessweek
• "Hack Attack," by Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Graham Bowley, The New York Times
• "Invasion of the Home Snatchers," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
• "Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds," by Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair

CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY

• "How to Make an American Job," by Andy Grove, Bloomberg Businessweek
• "Capital City," by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
• "Paul Krugman Columns," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times
• "Froma Harrop Columns," by Froma Harrop, The Providence Journal 

CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS

• "Toyota Sales Freeze," by Justin Hyde and Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press
• "Google in China," by Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft, John Markoff, Keith Bradsher, David Barboza, David E. Sanger and Brad Stone, The New York Times
• "S.E.C vs. Goldman," by Louise Story, Gretchen Morgenson and Joe Nocera, The New York Times
• "Flash Crash," by Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui and Mary Pilon, The Wall Street Journal
• "On the Inside," by Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg, Gregory Zuckerman, Steve Eder and Chad Bray, The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY F: BEAT REPORTING

• "Education Inc.," by Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman, Bloomberg News
• "Green China," by Keith Bradsher, The New York Times
• "Florida's Insurance Nightmare," by Paige St. John, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
• "Deep Trouble," by Russell Gold and Ben Casselman, The Wall Street Journal

 CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES

• "Toxic Cadmium," by Justin Pritchard , Associated Press
• "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It," by Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock, Bloomberg News
• "Gold's Affliction," by Cam Simpson and Alan Katz, Bloomberg News
  
•  "Profiting From Fallen Soldiers," by David Evans, Bloomberg News

CATEGORY H: EXPLANATORY

• "Goldman Sachs: Power And Peril," by Mitch Weitzner, David Faber, James Segelstein, Bob Waldman, Clem Tayler and Jonathan Dann, CNBC
• "Capital City," by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
• "Edifice Complex," by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• "What They Know," by Julia Angwin, Nick Wingfield, Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane, The Wall Street Journal
• "You're in Bad Hands," by Alan Prendergast, Westword

CATEGORY I: ONLINE ENTERPRISE

•  "Abandoned Michigan Industrial Toxic Sites," by Jim Lynch, Elizabeth Conley and Pat Murphy, The Detroit News
•  "You Fix the Budget," by David Leonhardt, Bill Marsh, Kevin Quealy, Shan Carter, Matthew Ericson and Amanda Cox, The New York Times 
• "Contaminated Drywall Cover-Up," by Aaron Kessler, Joaquin Sapien and Jeff Larson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune with ProPublica
• "What They Know," by Julia Angwin, Emily Steel, Scott Thurm, Christina Tsuei, Paul Antonson, Jill Kirschenbaum, Jovi Juan, Andrew Garcia Phillips, Sarah Slobin, Susan McGregor, Tom McGinty and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY J: BLOGGING

• "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)," by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital
• "Reinvention of the Airlines," Loren Steff , Houston Chronicle
• "Economix Blog," by Catherine Rampell, The New York Times

CATEGORY K: PERSONAL FINANCE

• "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors," by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
• "A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web," by David Segal, The New York Times
• "Student Debt," by Ron Lieber, The New York Times
• "The Intelligent Investor," by Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal
  

CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

• "Brian Ross Investigates: Better Business Bureau - Pay to Play Scandal," by Brian Ross, Joseph Rhee, Asa Eslocker, Mark Schone, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, ABC News
• "Brian Ross Investigates: Make-A-Wish Swindle," by Brian Ross , Matthew Mosk, Vic Walter, Mark Schone, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, ABC News
• "Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation," by Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman, Emily Bodenberg, Steven Banton and Gary Vandenberg, CNBC
• "Dollars for Docs," by Darren Gersh and Michael LaBella, Nightly Business Report (PBS)
• "Bitter Lessons," by Mark Smith, Billy Bryant and Byron Harris, WFAA-TV
  

CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOKS

• "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" by Sebastian Mallaby, The Penguin Press
• "All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis" by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, Portfolio
•  "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World" by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster
•  "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton & Company 

 

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

• "From the Pentagon to the Private Sector," by Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe
• "Deep Trouble," by Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Douglas A. Blackmon, Vanessa O'Connell, Alexandra Berzon and Ana Campoy, The Wall Street Journal
• "What They Know," by ulia Angwin, Nick Wingfield, Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane, The Wall Street Journal
• "Alaska Native Corporations," by Robert O'Harrow Jr.,  The Washington Post 

CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS

• "Side Effects," by John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors," by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
• "The Billion Dollar Boondoggle," by Ralph Cipriano, Philadelphia City Paper 
• "Contaminated Drywall Cover-Up," by Aaron Kessler and Joaquin Sapien, Sarasota Herald-Tribune with ProPublica
• "Seniors for Sale," by Michael J. Berens, The Seattle Times
• "Edifice Complex," by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES

• "Inside Foxconn," by Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan, Bloomberg Businessweek
• "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It," by Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock, Bloomberg Businessweek
• "Hack Attack," by Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Graham Bowley, The New York Times
• "Invasion of the Home Snatchers," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
• "Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds," by Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair

CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY

• "How to Make an American Job," by Andy Grove, Bloomberg Businessweek
• "Capital City," by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
• "Paul Krugman Columns," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times
• "Froma Harrop Columns," by Froma Harrop, The Providence Journal 

CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS

• "Toyota Sales Freeze," by Justin Hyde and Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press
• "Google in China," by Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft, John Markoff, Keith Bradsher, David Barboza, David E. Sanger and Brad Stone, The New York Times
• "S.E.C vs. Goldman," by Louise Story, Gretchen Morgenson and Joe Nocera, The New York Times
• "Flash Crash," by Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui and Mary Pilon, The Wall Street Journal
• "On the Inside," by Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg, Gregory Zuckerman, Steve Eder and Chad Bray, The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY F: BEAT REPORTING

• "Education Inc.," by Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman, Bloomberg News
• "Green China," by Keith Bradsher, The New York Times
• "Florida's Insurance Nightmare," by Paige St. John, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
• "Deep Trouble," by Russell Gold and Ben Casselman, The Wall Street Journal

 CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES

• "Toxic Cadmium," by Justin Pritchard , Associated Press
• "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It," by Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock, Bloomberg News
• "Gold's Affliction," by Cam Simpson and Alan Katz, Bloomberg News
  
•  "Profiting From Fallen Soldiers," by David Evans, Bloomberg News

CATEGORY H: EXPLANATORY

• "Goldman Sachs: Power And Peril," by Mitch Weitzner, David Faber, James Segelstein, Bob Waldman, Clem Tayler and Jonathan Dann, CNBC
• "Capital City," by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
• "Edifice Complex," by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• "What They Know," by Julia Angwin, Nick Wingfield, Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane, The Wall Street Journal
• "You're in Bad Hands," by Alan Prendergast, Westword

CATEGORY I: ONLINE ENTERPRISE

•  "Abandoned Michigan Industrial Toxic Sites," by Jim Lynch, Elizabeth Conley and Pat Murphy, The Detroit News
•  "You Fix the Budget," by David Leonhardt, Bill Marsh, Kevin Quealy, Shan Carter, Matthew Ericson and Amanda Cox, The New York Times 
• "Contaminated Drywall Cover-Up," by Aaron Kessler, Joaquin Sapien and Jeff Larson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune with ProPublica
• "What They Know," by Julia Angwin, Emily Steel, Scott Thurm, Christina Tsuei, Paul Antonson, Jill Kirschenbaum, Jovi Juan, Andrew Garcia Phillips, Sarah Slobin, Susan McGregor, Tom McGinty and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY J: BLOGGING

• "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)," by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital
• "Reinvention of the Airlines," Loren Steff , Houston Chronicle
• "Economix Blog," by Catherine Rampell, The New York Times

CATEGORY K: PERSONAL FINANCE

• "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors," by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
• "A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web," by David Segal, The New York Times
• "Student Debt," by Ron Lieber, The New York Times
• "The Intelligent Investor," by Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal
  

CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

• "Brian Ross Investigates: Better Business Bureau - Pay to Play Scandal," by Brian Ross, Joseph Rhee, Asa Eslocker, Mark Schone, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, ABC News
• "Brian Ross Investigates: Make-A-Wish Swindle," by Brian Ross , Matthew Mosk, Vic Walter, Mark Schone, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, ABC News
• "Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation," by Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman, Emily Bodenberg, Steven Banton and Gary Vandenberg, CNBC
• "Dollars for Docs," by Darren Gersh and Michael LaBella, Nightly Business Report (PBS)
• "Bitter Lessons," by Mark Smith, Billy Bryant and Byron Harris, WFAA-TV
  

CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOKS

• "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" by Sebastian Mallaby, The Penguin Press
• "All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis" by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, Portfolio
•  "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World" by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster
•  "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton & Company 

2009 FINALISTS

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

"The Reckoning," by Gretchen Morgenson, Peter S. Goodman, Charles Duhigg, Carter Dougherty, Eric Dash, Julie Creswell, Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Stephen Labaton,  The New York Times

"Broken Markets," by Carrick Mollenkamp, Susanne Craig, Jeffrey McCracken, Jon Hilsenrath, Susan Pulliam, Liz Rappaport, Aaron Lucchetti, Jenny Strasburg, Tom McGinty, Serena Ng, Randall Smith and Liam Pleven, The Wall Street Journal

"Prescription for Profits," by John Carreyrou and Barbara Martinez, The Wall Street Journal 

"The Crash: The Rise and Fall of AIG," by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post 

CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS

 "The Cruelest Cuts," by Ames Alexander, Peter St. Onge, Franco Ordoñez, Kerry Hall and Ted Mellnik, The Charlotte Observer

"Borrowers Betrayed," by Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman and Rob Barry, The Miami Herald

"Nail Gun Safety Under Fire," by Andrew McIntosh, The Sacramento Bee

"The Favor Factory," by David Heath and Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times

   CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES

 "Broken Promises," by William Selway and Martin Z. Braun, Bloomberg Markets

 "The End," by Michael Lewis, Condé Nast Portfolio

 "The Trouble with Steve," by Peter Elkind, Fortune

 "Obamanomics," by David Leonhardt, The New York Times Magazine

 CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY

"Michael Mandel Columns," by Michael Mandel, BusinessWeek

 "Columns by John Cassidy," by John Cassidy, Condé Nast Portfolio

"John Gapper's Column for the Financial Times," by John Gapper, Financial Times 

"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," by Brian M. Carney, The Wall Street Journal

 CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS

"The Madoff Mess," by Diana B. Henriques, Zachery Kouwe, Alex Berenson and Eric Konigsberg, The New York Times  

"The Week That Changed Wall Street," by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Edmund L. Andrews, Michael J. de la Merced, Mary Williams Walsh, Joe Nocera, Peter S. Goodman, Charles Duhigg, Stephen Labaton and Diana B. Henriques, The New York Times

 "Collapse of Bear Stearns," by Robin Sidel, Dennis K. Berman, Kate Kelly, Carrick Mollenkamp, Mark Whitehouse, Serena Ng, Randall Smith and E.S. Browning, The Wall Street Journal

"The Day That Changed Wall Street," by Carrick Mollenkamp, Susanne Craig, Serena Ng, Aaron Lucchetti, Matthew Karnitschnig, Dan Fitzpatrick, Deborah Solomon, Dennis K. Berman, Liam Pleven, Peter Lattman and Annelena Lobb, The Wall Street Journal

 CATEGORY F: BEAT WRITING

 "The Fall of Wachovia," by Rick Rothacker, The Charlotte Observer

 "Wall Street," by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times 

 "Washington Mutual Funded Home Flippers," by John Gittelsohn, The Orange County Register 

 "Boom to Bust," by Chris Serres, Jim Buchta and Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune

"The Collapse of Lehman Brothers," by Susanne Craig, Jeffrey McCracken, Aaron Lucchetti and Kate Kelly, The Wall Street Journal   

 CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES

  "Weak Rules Cripple Appraiser Oversight," by Mitch Weiss, Associated Press

 

"Broken Promises," by William Selway and Martin Z. Braun, Bloomberg News

"Fed Defies Transparency," by Mark Pittman, Elliot Blair Smith, Jesse Westbrook, Bob Ivry and Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg News

"Wall Street's Toxic Exports," by Mark Pittman, Aaron Kirchfeld, Jacqueline Simmons, Alan Katz, Ian Katz and Finbarr Flynn, Bloomberg News

 

 CATEGORY H: FEATURE WRITING

China in Africa: Young Workers, Deadly Mines," by Simon Clark, Michael Smith and Franz Wild, Bloomberg Markets

"The End," by Michael Lewis, Condé Nast Portfolio

"The Fall of Bear Stearns," by Kate Kelly, The Wall Street Journal

"Driven," by Daniel Roth, Wired 

 CATEGORY I: ONLINE

 

 

"Rio Nuevo Audit," by Rob O'Dell, Arizona Daily Star

"2008 Globe 100," by Shirley Leung, Bennie DiNardo, Michael Warshaw, Danielle Kost, Jesse Nunes, Matthew Bottitta, Ronald Agrella, Joel Medina, DC Denison, Ann Silvio, Scott LaPierre, Essdras Suarez, Daigo Fujiwara, Javier Zarracina, The Boston Globe

"Middle Class Crunch," by Art Lenehan, Peggy Collins, Aaron Whallon, Anh Ly, Elizabeth Daza, Joe Farro, Sean Enzwiler, Rachel Elson, Mark Baumgartner, Lauren Barack, Richard Conniff and Judi Hasson, MSN Money

"The Debt Trap," by Gretchen Morgenson, Louise Story, Tara Siegel Bernard, Jenny Anderson, Mark Landler, Brad Stone, Jonathan Glater, Tom Jackson, Amy O'Leary, David Rummel, Rob Harris, Todd Heisler, Matt Orr, Emily Hager, Amy Schoenfeld, Amanda Cox and Matthew Bloch, The New York Times

"Pogue-o-matic," by David Pogue, Sam Grobart, Danielle Belopotosky, Zach Wise, John Niedermeyer, Tom Jackson and Raymond McCrea Jones, The New York Times 

 CATEGORY J: TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS

 

 

"Bailout Legislation," by Bob Orr, Robert Hendin, John Nolen, Jill Jackson and Evelyn Thomas, CBS News

"Economic Crisis: House of Cards," by Steve Kroft, Jennifer MacDonald and L. Franklin Devine, CBS News/60 Minutes

"David Faber on the Fall of AIG," by Jonathan Wald, Tyler Mathisen, David Faber and Mary Catherine Wellons, CNBC

"Is Your Money Safe: The Fall of Lehman Bros," by Jonathan Wald, Tyler Mathisen, Sanford Cannold, Dylan Ratigan, Melissa Lee, Samantha Wright, David Faber, Charlie Gasparino, Steve Liesman, Bertha Coombs, Maria Bartiromo, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Rebecca White and Benjamin Berna, CNBC

 CATEGORY K: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

 

 

"401(k) Hidden Fees," by Karin Annus, Gary Matsumoto, Amy Marino, Antony Michels and Mike Schneider, Bloomberg Television

 "King of Sushi," by Bob Simon, Michael Gavshon and Drew Magratten, CBS News/60 Minutes

"The Price of Bananas," by Steve Kroft, Jonathan Schienberg and Andy Court, CBS News/60 Minutes

 "The Wasteland," by Scott Pelley, Solly Granatstein and Nicole Young, CBS News/60 Minutes

 

CATEGORY L: BUSINESS BOOK

"The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," by Niall Ferguson, The Penguin Press

"Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash," by Charles R. Morris, Public Affairs

"The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business Life," by Alice Schroeder, Random House, Crown Publishers

2008 FINALISTS

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

“Toxic Pipeline,” by Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, David Barboza and Andrew W. Lehren, The New York Times

“Hidden Hazards,” by Patricia Callahan, Maurice Possley, Ted Gregory, Sam Roe, Michael Oneal and Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune

“Golden Opportunities,” by Charles Duhigg, The New York Times

“Mortgage Meltdown on Wall Street,” by Kate Kelly, Serena Ng, David Reilly, Susanne Craig, Susan Pulliam, Randall Smith, Michael Siconolfi, Carrick Mollenkamp, Robin Sidel, Monica Langley, Gregory Zuckerman and David Enrich, The Wall Street Journal

 

CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

“TIF Breaks,” by Jeffrey Spivak and Lynn Horsley, The Kansas City Star

“Beyond the Boom Series,” by Laura Frank, Burt Hubbard, Todd Hartman and Gargi Chakrabarty, Rocky Mountain News

“Sold A Nightmare,” by Binyamin Appelbaum, Lisa Hammersly, Ted Mellnik, Peter St. Onge and Liz Chandler, The Charlotte Observer

 

CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS 

“The China Effect,” by Tony Bartelme, The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)

“Fueling Iowa’s Future,” by Philip Brasher, Paula Lavigne, Perry Beeman, Lynn Hicks, Jerry Perkins and Lee Rood, The Des Moines (Iowa) Register

“Heads You Lose... Tails You Lose,” by Todd Spivak, Houston (Texas) Press

 

CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

“House of Junk,” by Allan Sloan, Fortune

“In Nature’s Casino,” by Michael Lewis, The New York Times Magazine

“The Poverty Business,” by Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein and Geri Smith, BusinessWeek

“Ponzi Nation,” by Edward Chancellor, Institutional Investor

“Message in a Bottle,” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company

 

 

CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

“Talking Business,” by Joe Nocera, The New York Times

“Business Columnist,” by Daniel Howes, The Detroit News

“Wall Street Skullduggery,” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times

“Review and Outlook,” by Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal

 

 

CATEGORY F: BREAKING NEWS

“The Fall of E. Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch,” by Jenny Anderson and Landon Thomas Jr., The New York Times

“A New U.S. Auto Industry,” by Katie Merx, Tim Higgins, Tom Walsh, Mark Phelan, Susan Tompor, Sarah A. Webster, Katherine Yung and Joe Guy Collier, Detroit Free Press

“Dow Jones-Murdoch Coverage,” by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Richard Siklos, Joe Nocera and Richard Pérez-Peña, The New York Times

“The Writers Strike,” by Claudia Eller, Richard Verrier, Maria Elena Fernandez, Jay A. Fernandez, Meg James, John Horn and Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times

 

CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING

“Golden Opportunities,” by Charles Duhigg, The New York Times

“Breakdown at Bear Stearns,” by Kate Kelly, Serena Ng, Susanne Craig and David Reilly, The Wall Street Journal

“The Cost of Contracting,” by Robert O’ Harrow Jr. and Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post

“Exposing Health, Financial Risks on Eye-Care Solutions,” by Jon Kamp, Dow Jones Newswires

“Coverage Denied,” by Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times

 

CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES

“Wall Street’s Faustian Bargain,” by Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Kathleen M. Howley, Bloomberg News

“The Insurance Hoax,” by David Dietz, Gary Cohn, Darrell Preston and Christine Richard, Bloomberg News

“Subprime Mortgage Series,” by Mike Liedtke, Adam Geller, Dave Carpenter and J.W. Elphinstone, Associated Press

“Subprime Crisis,” by Peter Henderson, Andy Sullivan, Al Yoon and Tim McLaughlin, Reuters 

 

 

CATEGORY I: FEATURE WRITING

“The Nation’s Broken Health-Care System,” by John Carreyrou, The Wall Street Journal

“Evolution of an Investor,” by Michael Lewis, Condé Nast Portfolio

“The Poverty Business,” by Brian Grow and Keith Epstein, BusinessWeek

“The Rise and Fall (and Subsequent Fall and Rise) of Ilan K. Reich,” by Jennifer Reingold, Fortune

“Message in a Bottle,” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company

 

CATEGORY J: ONLINE

“Keeping Up With The Wangs,” by Art Lenehan, Anh Ly and Suzanne McGee, MSN Money

“South of the Equator: Ford and GM Prosper,” by Bryce Hoffman, John Greilick and Rob L’Heureux, The Detroit News

“Globe 100,” by Bennie DiNardo, Tito Bottitta, Elisabeth Goodridge and Ronald Agrella, Boston Globe/Boston.com

 

 

CATEGORY K: TELEVISION DAILY

“Earmarks,” by Sharyl Attkisson and Chris Scholl, CBS Evening News

“Subprime Shockwaves,” by Danial Clark, Brian Sullivan, Karin Annus, Deepanshu Bagchee, Peter Gorenstein and Gary Matsumoto,  Bloomberg News

“Keeping Them Honest: The Transparent Congress,” by Drew Griffin, Kathleen Johnston, Todd Schwarzschild, Barclay Palmer, David Doss and Anderson Cooper, CNN Anderson Cooper 360

“India’s Promise,” by Steve Washington, Darren Gersh, Dana Greenspon and Sanjay Jha, PBS Nightly Business Report

“Do It Yourself Bands and Digital Pirates,” by Catherine Kim and Anthony Mason, CBS News

 

CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

“M.I.S.T. (Minor Injury to Soft Tissue),” by Drew Griffin, Kathleen Johnston, Todd Schwarzschild, Steve Robinson and Richard T. Griffiths, CNN

“Money for Nothing,” by Byron Harris, Mark Smith and Kraig Kirchem, WFAA-TV

“Against the Tide:  Battle for New Orleans,” by Josh Howard, Scott Cohn, Steve Liesman, Trish Regan, Mary Thompson and Scott Wapner, CNBC

“Wake Up Call,” by Steve Kroft and Andy Court, CBS News 60 Minutes

“The Money Issue,” by Serena Altschul, Cynthia Bowers, Barry Petersen, John Blackstone, Martha Teichner, David Pogue, Rita Braver, Joie Chen, Bill Geist, Ben Stein, Al Balisky, David Bhagat, Marsha Cooke, John D’Amelio, Ed Forgotson, Remington Korper, Brian Healy, Ann Marie Hodrick, Patrick Lee, Sandra Malyszka, Marisa Pearl, George Pozderec, Amy Rosner, Carol Ross, Jason Schmidt, Randy Schmidt, David Small, Mary Lou Teel and Nancy Wyatt, CBS News Sunday Morning

 

 

CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOK

Mine’s Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built by David A. K aplan (William Morrow)

The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler (Gotham Books)

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House)

A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber (Wiley)

 

 

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

“Gilded Paychecks” by Gretchen Morgenson, Julie Creswell, Geraldine Fabrikant and Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times

 “The Secretive Backdating of Option Awards for Corporate Executives” by Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow, The Wall Street Journal

1. The Perfect Payday
2. Open Spigot, Bosses' Pay: How Stock Options Became Part of the Problem
3. Matter of Timing, Five More COmpanies Show Questionable Options Pattern
4. Dating Game, Stock-Options Criminal Charge: Slush Fund and Fake Employees
5. Executive Retreat, Stock-Options Scandal Fugitive Puts Roots Down in Namibia
6. Bad Options, How a Giant Insurer Decided to Oust Hugely Successful CEO
7. Executive Pay: The 9/11 Factor

“The Hewlett-Packard Spying Scandal” by Alan Murray, Steve Stecklow, Charles Forelle, John R.Wilke, Rebecca Buckman, Peter Waldman, Joann S. Lublin, George Anders, Pui-Wing Tam and John R. Emshwiller, The Wall Street Journal

1. Directors Cut: H-P Board Clash Over Leaks Triggers Angry Resignation
2. H-P Scandal Puts Chairman, Lawyer in Awkward Light - Investigators Suspect Crimes Were Committed in Effort to Trace Boardroom Leaks
3. H-P Chairman's Uncertain Fate Casts CEO Hurd Into Spotlight
4. Boardroom Duel: Behind H-P CHairman's Fall, Clash With a Powerful Director
5. I Spy - A Reporter's Story: How H-P Kept Tabs on Me for a Year
6. Old Trick: Hewlett-Packard Was Far From First to Try 'Pretexting'

“Harvesting Cash” by Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post

CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

“On Shaky Ground” by June Arney and Fred Schulte, The Baltimore Sun 

“Crab Factory” by Chiaki Kawajiri, Gady A. Epstein and Stephanie Desmon, The Baltimore Sun 

“Foreclosing on the American Dream” by David Olinger, Aldo Svaldi, Greg Griffin and Jeffrey A. Roberts, The Denver Post Post   

“Radio Shack CEO's Resume in Question” by Heather Landy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS 

“The Killer Cure” by Scott Finn and Tara Tuckwiller, The Charleston (W. Va) Gazette

“The Kosher Jungle” by Nathaniel Popper, Forward (New York, N.Y.)

“The Great Empire Zone Giveaway” by Mike McAndrew and Michelle Breidenbach, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.)

“Time Shares” by Kyle Stock, The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)

CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

“Private Equity” by Emily Thornton, Dean Foust and David Henry, BusinessWeek    

“How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change the World? One.” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company        

“The Boss Who Spied on Her Board” by David A. Kaplan, Newsweek    

“What is a Living Wage?” by Jon Gertner, The New York Times Magazine   

CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

“Jay Hancock Columns” by Jay Hancock, The Baltimore Sun  

“Steve Bailey Downtown” by Steve Bailey, The Boston Globe  

“Talking Business” by Joe Nocera, The New York Times  

“Review and Outlook” by Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal   

“Business” by Alan Murray, The Wall Street Journal  

CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING

“Deal Unites Future Foes” by Greg Burns, Susan Diesenhouse, Susan Chandler, Julie Johnson and David Greising, Chicago Tribune 

“Blue Friday” by Louis Aguilar, Bill Vlasic, Daniel Howes, Bryce G. Hoffman, Dorothy Bourdet, Christine Tierney and Francis X. Donnelly, The Detroit News 

“The War at H-P” by Damon Darlin, Matt Richtel and Kurt Eichenwald, The New York Times 

“The Implosion of a Highflying Hedge Fund” by Ann Davis, Henny Sender and Gregory Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal  

“Futures Shock: The Mammoth Merger of the Merc and the CBOT” Aaron Lucchetti, Alistair MacDonald, Edward Taylor, Susan Carey, Joseph T. Hallinan, Peter A. McKay, Ann Davis, Matt Chambers and Mohammed Hadi, The Wall Street Journal 

CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING

“Radio Shack CEO's Resume in Question” by Heather Landy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

“Don Lee on the Corruption in the New China” by Don Lee, Los Angeles Times

“The Oil Giveaway” by Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times

“The Moral, Legal and Economic Dilemmas of Illegal Immigration” by Miriam Jordan, The Wall Street Journal

“Health-Care Goldmines: Middlemen Reap Benefits of Rising Costs” by Barbara Martinez and George Anders, The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT

“Ports Security” by Ted Bridis, The Associated Press

“Mortgage Finance” by Lingling Wei, Dow Jones Newswires

“Who Are the Short Sellers?” by Alistair Barr, MarketWatch

“Illegal Workers: Injured and Abandoned” by Liz Chandler, The McClatchy Company

CATEGORY I: FEATURE WRITING

“A Head for Detail” by Clive Thompson, Fast Company

“Revenge of the Nerds” by Adam L. Penenberg, Fast Company

“Rewriting the Social Contract” by Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times

“The Hedge-Fund King is Getting Nervous” by Susan Pulliam, The Wall Street Journal

CATEGORY J: TELEVISION DAILY

“High Tech Genius” by Michelle Miller, Chris Hulme and Patricia Shelvin, CBS Evening News: Weekend Editions

“Take as Directed” by Rand Morrison, Estelle Popkin, Gavin Boyle, Susan Spencer, David Bhagat and Jon Carris, CBS News Sunday Morning

“Amaranth Explanation” by Jim Cramer, CNBC

“Trophy” by Jim Popkin, Lisa Myers, Albert Oetgen, Doug Adams, Adam Ciralsky and Rich Gardella,  NBC News

CATEGORY K: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

“ABC News - Brian Ross Investigates: 'Mugus and Masters'” by Brian Ross, Joseph Rhee and Len Tepper, ABC News 20/20

“The Mother of All Heists” by Jeff Fager, Steve Kroft, Andy Court, Keith Sharman, Patti Hassler and Daniel J. Glucksman, CBS News 60 Minutes

“Big Brother, Big Business” by Josh Howard and David Faber, CNBC

“A Fraud on Your House” by Byron Harris, Mark Smith and Kraig Kirchem, WFAA-TV (Dallas, Texas)

CATEGORY L: BUSINESS BOOK

“China Shakes the World” by James Kynge, Houghton Mifflin

“The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More” by Chris Anderson, Hyperion

“The Wal-Mart Effect” by Charles Fishman, The Penguin Press

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

"Borrower Beware" by Ann Hardie, Carrie Teegardin and Alan Judd, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Guardians for Profit” by Robin Fields, Evelyn Larrubia and Jack Leonard, The  Los  Angeles Times

1. "Judge Orders Review of Vet's Contested Will"
2. "When a Family Matter Turns Into a Business"
3. "For Most Vulnerable, a Promise Abandoned"
4. “Missing Money, Unpaid Bills and Forgotten Clients”
5. "In O.C., a Lower Fee for That Milk Run”
6. “Judges’ Inaction, Inattention Leave Many Seniors at Risk”
7. “’Ruling Over Someone’ Has Paid Off Handsomely”

“Dangerous Devices” by Barry Meier, The New York Times

“Cybercrime Inc.” by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, USA Today

“Taxes and Terrorism” by Glenn R. Simpson, The Wall Street Journal

1. “As Europe Cuts Corporate Tax, Pressure Rises on U.S. to Follow”
2. "Arab Bank’s Link to Terrorism Poses Dilemma for U.S. Policy” (Part I)
3. “Arab Bank’s Link to Terrorism Poses Dilemma for U.S. Policy” (Part II)
4. “Government Probes Tax Shelters Used to Shield Stock-Option Gains” (Part I)
5. “Government Probes Tax Shelters Used to Shield Stock-Option Gains” (Part II)
6. “Irish Subsidiary Lets Microsoft Slash Taxes in U.S. and Europe” (Part I)
7. “Irish Subsidiary Lets Microsoft Slash Taxes in U.S. and Europe” (Part II)
8. “ABN Amro to Pay $80 Million Fine Over Iran, Libya” (Part I)
9. “ABN Amro to Pay $80 Million Fine Over Iran, Libya” (Part II)
10. “How Top Dutch Bank Plunged Into a World of Shadowy Money” (Part I)
11. “How Top Dutch Bank Plunged Into a World of Shadowy Money” (Part II)

 

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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

 “Ohio Rare Coin Funds” by Christopher Kirkpatrick, Joshua Boak, Steve Eder, James Drew, and Mike Wilkinson, The Blade  (Toledo, Ohio)

“Reality Check for Job Programs” by Mike McAndrew and Michelle Breidenbach, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.)

1. "Broken Promises On Jobs"
2. "New York's Power For Jobs Program"

“The Pineros: Men of the Pines” by Tom Knudson and Hector Amezcua, The Sacramento Bee

“Selling Drug Secrets” by Luke Timmerman and David Heath, The Seattle Times 
 

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CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS

“Wrong Side of the Track” by Janet Patton, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader

1. “At Their Own Risk”
2. “Injuries Come With the Job” (Part I)
3. “Injuries Come With the Job” (Part II)
4. “A Painful Precedent”
5. “Crushed, Rejected”
6. “Backside Charities Didn’t Help”
7. “Launching a New Life”
8. “Trainer, Insurer Come Through” (Part I)
9. “Trainer, Insurer Come Through” (Part II)
10. “It needs to be addressed now’”
11. “Horse Trainer Must Now Train Himself” (Part I)
12. “Horse Trainer Must Now Train Himself” (Part II)

“School’s Pursuit of Profit Leaves Students Behind” by Sam Kennedy, Christina Gostomski, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)

1. "School's Pursuit of Profit Leaves Students Behind"
2. "High Interest Student Loan Hearing Moves to Capital"
3. "Spotlight to be on Lehigh Valley College Loans"
4. "Dally Wants Hearing on School Loans"
5. "School Steers Students to Backbreaking Loans"
6. "Lawmakers Turn Up Heat On LVC Loans"
7. “School Pulls Plug On Pricey Loan Program"

“The Human Factor” by Eric Nalder, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“PGE Investigation” by Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week ( Portland, Ore.)
 

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CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

“Insurance Coverage” by Jonathan R. Laing, Barron’s

1. "MBIA's 'Black Hole'"
2. “Greenberg's Fall
3. “Jack's Magic"
4. “Letting The Air Out"
5. “Spreading TheRisk"
6. “Turning Up The Heat on AIG"
7. “Way Station

  “The Banks That Fleeced Alabama” by Martin Z. Braun, Darrell Preston, and Liz Willen, Bloomberg Markets

“The Hidden Wealth of the Poor” by Thomas Easton, The Economist

“Why Carly’s Big Bet Is Failing, How the HP Board KO’d Carly” by Carol Loomis, Fortune

“The Broken Promise” by Donald Barlett and James B. Steele, Time Magazine

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 CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

“Steve Bailey Downtown” by Steve Bailey, The Boston Globe

1. "The Best Messenger?"
2. “A Tale of Two Temps"
3. “Mister Boston"
4. “Just Do It"
5. “Sue Thy Neighbor"
6. “Mr. Roger's Legacy"
7. “Pizza Pie in your Eye"

“Review and Outlook: Kianna’s Law” by Robert L. Pollock, The Wall Street Journal

1. "How About a Kianna's Law?"
2. “Kianna's Legacy"
3. “The FDA vs. Cancer Patients"
4. “Pazdur's Cancer Rules"

  "Business and Economics Columns” by Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post

1. "Big Three Lumbering Toward Failure"
2. “Greenspan Misfires on Fannie, Freddie"
3. “Defection Could Be Just What Organizaed Labor Needs"
4. “Refiners' Merger Good for Business, Not Consumers"
5. “Boats Rose in New Orleans, but Not for the Poor"
6. “Alaska Would Be More at Home in Russia"
7. “When Breaking Up is Not Hard to Do"
   
   
   

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“Staggering Blow” by Bill Vlasic, Brett Clanton, Daniel Howes, Scott Burgess, David Shepardson, Gary Heinlein, Ron French, Bryce G. Hoffman, James V. Higgins, Brian J. O’Connor, Nick Bunkley, and Jeff Plungis, The Detroit News

“Sale of MBNA” by Maureen Milford, Ted Griffith, Luladey B. Tadesse, Robin Brown, Gary Soulsman, Christopher Yasiejko, Michele Besso, Steven Church, Jeff Montgomery, and Peter Bothum, The News Journal (New Castle, Del.)

“A Drug On Trial” by Alex Berenson, The New York Times

 

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CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING

“Port Salaries- Salary Protocol” by Peter Dujardin, Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)

1. "Salary Protocol"
2. "Officials: Executives' Compensation Not Our Business"
3. “Possible Conflict of Interest in Port Probe"
4. “VIT Salary Secrecy Challenged"
5. “Who Should Know Exec Salaries?"
6. “Panel Votes to Seek Port Officials' Pay"

 “Dwindling Benefits” by Mary Williams Walsh and Milt Freudenheim, The New York Times

“Risky Business” by Sydney P. Freedberg, Jeff Harrington, and Connie Humburg, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times

1. "We Paid for Jobs, Then They Left"
2. "Closing to Cost Bay Area 1,900 Jobs"
3. “Risky Business"
4. “Lured Employers Now Tax Medicaid"
5. “Long Line Forming for Tax Breaks"
6. “Keeping Motorola, Inc., At All Costs

“The Most Expensive Drugs and How They Came to Be” by Geeta Anand, The Wall Street Journal

1. "How Drugs for Rare Diseases Became Lifeline for Companies"
2. "A Biotech Drug Extends a Life, But at What Price?"
3. “Through Charities, Drug Makers Help People -- and Themselves"
4. “As Biotech Drug Prices Surge, U.S. Is Hunting for a Solution"

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CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT

"LAX Loans" by Frank Bass, Dirk Lammers, and Larry Margasak, The Associated Press

“The ‘Squawk Box’ Probe” by Matthew Goldstein, TheStreet.com

1. "SEC Probes 'Squawk Box' Front Running
2. "'Squawk' Probe Figure Has An Eye for Action"
3. “AB Watley Questioned in SEC's 'Squawk' Probe
4. “Ex-Watley CEO Has Checkered Past"
5. "Feds Indict 'Ssquawk' Brokers"

 

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 CATEGORY I: TELEVISION DEADLINE

“Real Estate Craze” by Betsy Stark, Robert Krulwich, Lisa Stark, and staff, ABC News

“Every Color of the Rainbow” by Rand Morrison, Estelle Popkin, Gavin Boyle, Marquita Pool-Eckert, Rita Braver, Catherine Kim, and Patrick Lee, CBS News Sunday Morning

“Postcard from China” by Rand Morrison, Estelle Popkin, Gavin Boyle, Marquita Pool-Eckert, Barry Petersen, Alec Sirken, and Michael Gray, CBS News Sunday Morning

“The Katrina Effect” by Anne Thompson and staff, NBC Nightly News

 

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 CATEGORY J: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

“11 Wall Street” by Lisa Zeff, ABC News Productions

“Illegal and Thriving” by Lesley Stahl, CBS News 60 Minutes

“China Rising” by Paul Solman, Lee Koromvokis, Jeffrey Kline, Jacob Kline and Joanne Elgart Jennings, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

 “Learning the Hard Way” by Byron Harris, Kraig Kirchem, and Mark Smith, WFAA-TV (Dallas, Texas)

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 CATEGORY K: BUSINESS BOOK

DisneyWar by James B. Stewart, Simon & Schuster

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow (Harper Collins)

The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

"Captive Clientele" by Diana Henriques, The New York Times

 "Death on the Tracks" by Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times

"Internet Security" by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, USA Today

1. "Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?"
2. "Tech industry presents less-than-unified defense"
3. "Crooks slither into Net's shady nooks and crannies"
4. "Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes"
5. "Market to protect consumer PCs seems poised for takeoff"

"The Last Cartel" by Steve Fainaru, The Washington Post  

 

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 CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

"A Billion-Dollar Bet" by Mike Adams and Robert Little , The Baltimore Sun 

  "Danger Overhead: Crushed Roofs" by Bill Vlasic and Jeff Plungis, The Detroit News

1. "Thousands killed, hurt as auto roofs collapse"
2. "Seat belts not enough to save lives in rollovers"
3. "Feds, Big Three gird for roof showdown"

"Toxic Treats" by Jenifer B. McKim, William Heisel, Keith Sharon, Valeria Godines and Hanh Kim Quach, The Orange County Register

 "Shifting Fortunes" by Alwyn Scott, Brier Dudley and Jake Batsell, The Seattle Times

1. "Foreign agriculture bruising 'Growin in Washington' label"
2. "Trade winds buffet state's farmers"
3. "From Redmond to India: high tech's global families"
4. "India parlays education, timing into tech boom"
5. "Inventor rose high - until world changed"
6. "Economic revolution throttles inventor"
7. "Cup by cup, coffee fuels world market"

 "High-Tech Shell Game" by Christopher Carey, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

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 CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS

"Borrowing the Future: a Special Report" by Harvy Lipman and Grant Williams, The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Washington, DC)

 "Our Mayor, the Lobbyist" by Bob Norman, New Times Broward/Palm Beach (FL)

1. "Our Mayor, the Lobbyist"
2. "Our Mayor, the Lobbyist, Part 2"
3. "Our Mayor, the Lobbyist, Part 3"
4. "Our Mayor, the Lobbyist, Part 4"
5. "The Lobbyist (Who Wasn't There)"

 "In God We Trust" by Bruce Rushton, Phoenix New Times

 "The China Challenge" by Craig Troianello, Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic

1. "Apples to Apples"
2. "Apples feed economy"
3. "Peering into the future"
4. "Meeting and competing"

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 CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

"Swept Away: How Fannie Mae keeps its losses from sullying the bottom line" by Jonathan R. Laing , Barron's

 "Bechtel's Power Outage" by Charlie McCoy and Ralph King, Business 2.0

 "The Next Warren Buffett?" by Robert Berner, BusinessWeek

 "The Toll of a New Machine" by Charles Fishman, Fast Company

 "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (and How to Win It)" by Clifton Leaf, Fortune

 

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 CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

"The Barker Portfolio" by Robert Barker, BusinessWeek

 "Technology & You" by Stephen H. Wildstrom, BusinessWeek

 "Dan Haar Columns" by Dan Haar, The Hartford (CT) Courant

1. "Bidding Farewell to the Machine; Offshoring Patent Jobs No Threat"
2. "Comcast's Disney Foray A Bad Idea"
3. "Struggling Toward Homes Of Their Own"
4. "Cutting Benefits? Offer Stock"
5. "Little Choice Is Big Trouble; Ending Insurance Bonuses Would Carry A Real Price"

 "DealBook" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times

 "Cracks in Fannie Mae’s Foundation" by Peter Eavis, TheStreet.com

1. "Fannie's Fearsome New Year Challenge"
2. "Freddie Flap Highlights Fannie Flaw"
3. "A New Reason to Fret About Fannie"
4. "Fannie Flap Points to Options Grants"
5. "Falcon Has Landed at Fannie Mae"
6. "Fannie Probe Turns to Derivatives"
7. "Fannie Fight Ready to Get Nastier"

 "Spitzer v. Grasso" by Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal

1. "Spitzer v. Grasso"
2. "Paxil Man"
3. "Mr. Grasso's Money"
4. "Eliot's Insurance Policy"
5. "Mr. Spitzer's Allies"
6. "Garamendi's Tollgate"

 

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 CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING

"Google IPO" by Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

 "End of an Era" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Steve Lohr, David Barboza, Gary Rivlin and John Markoff, The New York Times

 "The Risky Business of Risk" by Monica Langley, Theo Francis, Scot J. Paltrow, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Christopher Oster, Ian McDonald and John Hechinger, The Wall Street Journal

 "Fannie Mae" by David S. Hilzenrath, Kathleen Day, Carrie Johnson and Terence O'Hara, The Washington Post

 

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 CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING

"Boston Scientific" by Jeffrey Krasner and Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe

1. "When cardiac stents fail, surgeons race to avert worst"
2. "Suit accuses stent-maker of copying designs"
3. "Stents sold despite high failure rates"

 "Danger Overhead: Crushed Roofs" by Bill Vlasic and Jeff Plungis, The Detroit News

1. "Thousands killed, hurt as auto roofs collapse"
2. "Seat belts not enough to save lives in rollovers"
3. "Feds, Big Three gird for roof showdown"

 "The Short Life of 'Lifetime' Health-Care Benefits" by Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, The Wall Street Journal

 "Iraq Reconstruction" by Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post

 

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 CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT

"Investment Conflict on Wall Street" by David Dietz and Adam Levy, Bloomberg News

 "Exposing Small-Cap Fraud" by Carol S. Remond, Dow Jones Newswires

 "The Answer Desk" by John W. Schoen, MSNBC.com

 "Cracks in Fannie Mae’s Foundation" by Peter Eavis, TheStreet.com

1. "Fannie's Fearsome New Year Challenge"
2. "Freddie Flap Highlights Fannie Flaw"
3. "A New Reason to Fret About Fannie"
4. "Fannie Flap Points to Options Grants"
5. "Falcon Has Landed at Fannie Mae"
6. "Fannie Probe Turns to Derivatives"
7. "Fannie Fight Ready to Get Nastier"

 

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 CATEGORY I: TELEVISION DEADLINE

"Money for Nothing?" by Chris Cuomo, Shelley Ross, Bob Lange, Thomas Berman and Jack Pyle, ABC News: Primetime

 "The Rising Price of Oil" by Betsy Stark, Justine Schiro and Alice Maggin, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings

 "Enron Scandal: Ken Lay Indicted" by Maria Bartiromo, Tyler Mathisen, Mark Haines, Sue Herera, Dylan Ratigan, Scott Cohn, Bertha Coombs, Diana Olick, Nanette Hansen, Courtney Ford, Lacy O’Toole, Alex Crippen, Robert Contino, Bill McCandless, Bob Fasbender, Judith Dobrzynski, David Friend, Benjamin Berna, Sanford Cannold and Ellen Egeth, CNBC

 "Identity Theft" by Anne Thompson, Fred Francis, Robert Hager, Don Teague, Jay Blackman, Denise Baker, Richard Latour, Charles Schaeffer, Albert Oetgen, John Reiss and Steve Capus, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

 

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 CATEGORY J: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE

No finalists were announced in the Television Enterprise category. The Judging committee has chosen not to select a Loeb winner in the Television Enterprise category for 2005.

 

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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

"Stealth Merger: Drug Companies and Government Medical Research" by David Willman, Los Angeles Times

"Fixing Medicare” by Reed Abelson, Kurt Eichenwald, Gardiner Harris, Gina Kolata, Melody Petersen and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times"

Exposing Scandals at the Big Board" by Susanne Craig, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Charles Gasparino, Greg Ip, Kate Kelly and Deborah Solomon, The Wall Street Journal

1. "Big Board is Probing Specialists for Possible 'Front-Running'"
2. "Grasso Is NYSE's $10 Million Man"
3. "Several NYSE Directors Consider Removing Grasso To Stem Pay Flap"
4. "Grasso Quits NYSE Amid Pay Furor"
5. "SEC Blasts Big Board Oversight of 'Specialist' Trading Firms"
6. "How Grasso's Rule Kept NYSE On Top But Hid Deep Troubles"

"The Hidden Injustices of Hospital Bills” by Lucette Lagnado, The Wall Street Journal

1. "Twenty Years and Still Paying"
2. "A Young Woman, An Appendectomy, and a $19,000 Debt"
3. "Twenty Years - and He Isn't Paying Any More"
4. "Hospitals Urged to End Harsh Tactics for Billing Uninsured"
5. "Hospitals Try Extreme Measures To Collect Their Overdue Debts"
6. "Hospitals Will Give Price Breaks To Uninsured, if Medicare Agrees

"Big Green" by David Ottaway and Joe Stephens, The Washington Post

1. "Inside the Nature Conservancy"
2. "A House in the Woods"
3. "When Conservation and Business Fail to Mix"

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 CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

"Credit Trap" by Kenneth R. Gosselin and Matthew Kauffman, The Hartford Courant

"Building Homes: Building Problems" by Dan Tracy, Orlando Sentinel

1. "Region's new homes riddled with flaws"
2. "'Good enough' work means shoddy homes"
3. "Homes often are rush jobs, critics assert"
4. "Top builders downplay homes' flaws"
5. "Mexican migrants carve path of hope to Orlando"
6. "Code, inspections let flaws through"
7. "Builders clout keeps regulations weak"

"Banking on Your Money" by Clint Riley, The Record

"Drugging the Poor" by Fred Schulte, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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 CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS

"Everybody at Risk" by Kate Long, The Charleston Gazette

1. "On The Edge"
2. "We Sink Or Swim With Everyone Else"
3. "Insurance: With & Without"
4. "Cancel The Discount?"
5. "Hospital Sticker Shock"
6. "We Thought We Had Insurance"

"Heart Divided" by Andrea Tortora, Cincinnati Business Courier

1. "Heart Divided"
2. "Doctor Pushes For Regional Heart Care Center"
3. "Heart-only Hospital In Works"
4. "Heart Hospital Has More Suitors"

"Behind an OxyContin Crisis" by Charles B. Camp, Lexington Herald-Leader

1. "Millions Sold, Office By Office"
2. "Inside A Painkiller's Sales Pitch"

"Reflection of a Changing America" by S. Lynne Walker, The State Journal-Register

1. "Tension In The Air"
2. "Conquering The Great Divide"
3. "Living With A Lie"
4. "Dealing With Change"

"Men Not Working" by Jim Bodor, Lisa Eckelbecker, Andi Esposito and Bob Kievra, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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 CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

"The Coming Job Boom" by Paul Kaihla, Business 2.0

"Is Your Job Next? / The Rise of India" by Aaron Bernstein, Pete Engardio and Manjeet Kripalani, BusinessWeek

1. "Is Your Job Next?"
2. "The Rise Of India"

"The $87 Billion Money Pit" by John Barry, Christian Caryl, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Michael Hirsh, Rod Nordland and Peyman Pejan, Newsweek

"Big Money on Campus" by Julian E. Barnes, Megan Barnett and Danielle Knight, U.S.News & World Report

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 CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

"Commentary Columns" by Amity Shlaes, Financial Times

 "Golden State" by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times

"Harvesting Poverty" by Andres Martinez, The New York Times

"Series of 2003 Columns" by Froma Harrop, The Providence Journal

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 CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING

"Financial Services" by Steve Bailey, Andrew Caffrey and Stven Syre, The Boston Globe

1. "Fleet, Hancock eyed merger, officials say"
2. "Officials say Hancock, Prudential eyed merger"
3. "Hancock seen in serious talks"
4. "$47b Fleet sale expected today"
5. "Putnam chief Lasser agrees to resign"

"Boeing: What Really Happened" by Stanley Holmes, BusinessWeek 

"Exposing Wrongdoing at State-Run Polish Companies" by Malgorzata Halaba, David McQuaid and Marek Strzelecki, Dow Jones Newswires

"The Day Grasso Quit as NYSE Chief" by Susanne Craig, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Theo Francis and Kate Kelly, The Wall Street Journal

1. "Grasso Quits NYSE Amid Pay Furor"
2. "Tight-Knit Culture Will Help Shape Big Board's Future"
3. "Weakened NYSE Must Face Challenges"
4. "How Much Severance Pay Is Enough?"

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 CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING

"A Sampling of Articles" by David Leonhardt, The New York Times

“The Coming Crisis” by Mary Williams Walsh, The New York Times

 “A Spotlight on Boeing’s Legal and Ethical Scandals” by J. Lynn Lunsford, Andy Pasztor and Anne Marie Squeo, The Wall Street Journal

1. "U. S. Probes Whether Boeing Misused a Rival's Documents"
2. "Mergers Make It Tougher to Punish Federal Contractors"
3. "Boeing Is Punished in Rocket Case"
4. "Boeing's Plan to Smooth Bumps Of Jet Market Hits Turbulence"
5. "Air Force Ex-Official Had Ties To Boeing During Contract Talks"
6. "Boeing CEO Condit Resigns In Shake-Up at Aerospace Titan"
7. "How Two Officials Got Caught By Pentagon's Revolving Door"

“Hidden Roots of the Pension Crisis” by Theo Francis and Ellen E. Schultz, The Wall Street Journal

1. "Executives Get Pension Security While Plans for Workers Falter"
2. "Most Workers Are In Dark on Health Of Their Pensions"
3. "Firms Had a Hand In Pension Plight They Now Bemoan"
4. "Many Ties Link Pension Lobby To Regulators"
5. "Is Pension Crisis a Scapegoat?"
6. "GM, Other Firms Boost Earnings By Pouring Billions Into Pensions"
7. "For Pension Plans, Risky Is Fine"

"Unraveling the Mysteries of the Fed and the Economy" by Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal

1. "Inside a Shaky Economy, Signs of a Rebound Emerge"
2. "As Housing Buoys Economy, It's No Surprise to Fed's Chairman"
3. "Next Fed Rate Cut May Be Smaller Than Expected"
4. "Tech Supplier Senses Businesses May Be Near a Spending Uptick"
5. "Fed Missed Mark On Impact of Cut On Bond Market"
6. "Fed's Big Question: Not What to Do, But What to Say"
7. "Fed to Keep Rates At Historic Low Despite Growth"

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 CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT

 “The Flimflam Man” by Adrian Cox, David Evans and Abhay Singh, Bloomberg News

“Broken Promises: How Economic Reforms Have Failed Mexico” by Susan Ferriss, Cox News Service

“Risky Rx” by Chris Adams and Alison Young, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau

“eBay Beats the Corporate Reformers” by Troy Wolverton, TheStreet.com

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 CATEGORY I: TELEVISION SHORT FORM

“Hispanic in America” by Malinda Adams, Jerry Bowen, Larry Doyle, Bobbi Harley, Dick Jefferson, Kristen Muller, Pat Shevlin and Mark Strassmann, CBS Evening News, Weekend Edition

“CNBC in India” by Steve Banton, Joe Dewitt, Judy Dobrzynski, Wally Griffith, Gina Guerriero, Sue Herera, Jeffrey Pohlman and Bill Sims, CNBC

 “Funds Under Fire” by Scott Cohn, Patti Domm, Ellen Egeth and Mary Thompson, CNBC

“The Jobless Recovery” by Doug Adams, Christiana Arvelis, Donna Bass, Steve Capus, Joo Lee, Karen Nye, Albert Oetgen, Felicia Patinkin, Charles Schaeffer, Nikki Stamos and Anne Thompson, NBC Nightly News

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 CATEGORY J: TELEVISION LONG FORM

"Imported from India” by Rome Hartman and Lesley Stahl, CBS News "60 Minutes"

"Where's My Stuff?" by Victoria Corderi, Karen Heywood McKinley, Rayner Ramirez and Kelly Sutherland, Dateline NBC

 "Jobless Recovery Series" by Lee Koromvokis and Paul Solman, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer/ PBS

 "Mutual Funds Fraud" by Lee Koromvokis and Paul Solman, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer/ PBS

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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

"Meat Series" by David Migoya, The Denver Post

"Bad Medicine 'Medicine's Middlemen'" by Walt Bogdanich, Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh, The New York Times

"Corporate Greed" by David Cay Johnston, Geraldine Fabrikant, Gretchen Morgenson, David Barboza, Alex Berenson and Stephen Labaton, The New York Times

"Tax Dodgers" by David Cay Johnston, The New York Times

"AOL’s Advertising Deals" by Alec Klein, The Washington Post

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 CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

"Kmart’s Road to Bankruptcy" by Becky Yerak, Karen Talaski-Dybis, Hawke Fracassa, Francis X. Donnelly, David Shepardson, Bill Vlasic and Mark Truby, The Detroit News

"PERS" by Brent Walth and Kim Christensen, The Oregonian (Portland, OR)

"Where Computers Go to Die" by Karl Schoenberger, San Jose Mercury News

"The CEO and His Church" by Deborah O’Neil and Jeff Harrington, St. Petersburg (FL) Times

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 CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS

"On the Rocks" by Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News

"Anatomy of a Scandal" by Cadence Mertz, The Burlington (VT) Free Press

"ImClone Data Insufficient to Evaluate Cancer Drug" by Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter (Washington, DC)

1. "FDA Says ImClone Date Insufficient To Evaluate Colorectal Cancer Drug C225"
2. "ImClone 'Screwed Up' CEO Waksal Tells Conference; Stock Plunges"
3. "Congressional Committee, SEC Probe ImClone's Statements To Shareholders"
4. "Expert Review of ImClone Protocol Concludes C225 Approval Unlikely"
5. "BMS Execs Knew Of Flaws In ImClone Plan For C225 Prior to $2-Billion Licensing Deal"
6. "Investigators Plan To Interview DeVita, Mendelsohn on C225 Development"
7. "As ImClone Investigation Continues, FDA Combines Drug, Biologics Review"

"A License to Steal" by Eric Eyre and Scott Finn, The Charleston (WV) Gazette

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 CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

"Your 401k is Making a Statement" by Charles Fishman, Fast Company

"Bad Boys" by Daniel Lyons, Forbes

"Back from the Brink" by David Whitford, Fortune Small Business

"Nationalities of Convenience" by Hal Lux, Institutional Investor

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 CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

"Sweetening the Corporate Suite" by Graef ‘Bud’ Crystal, Bloomberg News

"Finance and Economics Commentary" by Matthew Bishop, The Economist

"Auto Industry Commentary" by Jerry Flint, Forbes

"Series of 2002 Columns" by Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek

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 CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING

"Bankruptcy of United Airlines" by John Schmeltzer, Tom McCann, Susan Chandler, Andrew Countryman, Janet Kidd Stewart, Robert Manor, Jim Kirk, Rob Kaiser, Jon Hilkevitch, Grace Aduroja, Jon Van and Thomas A. Corfman, Chicago Tribune

"Kmart’s Road to Bankruptcy" by Becky Yerak, Karen Talaski-Dybis, Hawke Fracassa, Francis X. Donnelly, David Shepardson, Bill Vlasic and Mark Truby, The Detroit News

"The Microsoft Antitrust Case Settlement" by David Colker, James Flanigan, James Granelli, Jon Healey, Glenda McCarthy, Joseph Menn and Jube Shiver Jr., Los Angeles Times

"WorldCom’s Whirlwind Demise" by Rebecca Blumenstein, Gregory Zuckerman, Jared Sandberg, Shawn Young, Susan Pulliam, Deborah Solomon and Carrick Mollenkamp, The Wall Street Journal

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 CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING

"Inside the S.E.C." by Stephen Labaton, The New York Times

"Tax Dodgers" by David Cay Johnston, The New York Times

"Executive Privilege at Tyco" by Mark Maremont and Laurie P. Cohen, The Wall Street Journal

"Insurance: Who Benefits?" by Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, The Wall Street Journal

"AOL’s Advertising Deals" by Alec Klein, The Washington Post

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 CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT

"Lagging Europe" by Steve Scherer, Art Pine, Will Edwards, Hellmuth Tromm, Gregory Viscusi and Tom Giles, Bloomberg News

"SuperModels" by Jon D. Markman, CNBC on MSN Money

"A Mortal Microsoft" by Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com"

"In the Money/Investco" by Carol S. Remond, Dow Jones Newswires

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 CATEGORY I: TELEVISION SHORT FORM

"Enron Investigation" by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Chris Vlasto, Jill Rackmill, David Scott, Gerilyn Curtin and Simon Surowicz, ABC News

"Derailed" by Ed Forgotson Jr., Robin Skeete and Joie Chen, CBS News Sunday Morning

"David Faber Breaks WorldCom" by David Faber, CNBC

"Cable News Wars" by Terence Smith, Lester M. Crystal, Anne Davenport and Ilyse Veron, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

"Explaining Enron" by Paul Solman, Lester M. Crystal, Mary Jo Brooks, Lee Koromvokis, Merrill Schwerin and Jeffrey Brown, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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 CATEGORY J: TELEVISION LONG FORM

"Payola" by Audrey Latman and Arnold Diaz, ABC News

"Taken on Faith" by Scott Pelley and David Schneider, CBS News: 60 Minutes II

"La Oroya, City of Lead" by Craig Cheatham, Mark Hadler and Andrea Torrence, KMOV-TV (CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO)

"Trashed Transactions" by Don Dare and George Mitchell, WATE-TV (ABC affiliate, Knoxville, TN)

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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

“OxyContin” by Barry Meier and Melody Petersen, The New York Times

 “Uninformed Consent” by Duff Wilson and David Heath, The Seattle Times

“Enron: The Demise of a Giant” by Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller, The Wall Street Journal

“Little Accountability for Accountants” by David S. Hilzenrath, The Washington Post

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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

“Dead Tired: Weary Truckers Take Lethal Toll” by Judy L. Thomas, The Kansas City Star

“One-Ticket Town” by Tim Barker and Mary Shanklin, Orlando Sentinel

“Housed in Debt” by Paul D. Davies, Philadelphia Daily News

“Unequal Opportunity” by Jeffrey Meitrodt, Mark Schleifstein, Pamela Coyle and Ronette King, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) 

1. "Pushed Aside"
2. “Exploiting Opportunity”
3. “Insecure Future”
4. “Breaking Barriers”
5. “Through the Cracks”
6. “Ready-Mix DBE”
7. “Numbers Game”

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 CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS

“A Clear-Cut Legacy” by Paula Dobbyn, Anchorage Daily News

“Trade on Trial” by Jenna Greene, Legal Times (Washington, DC)

“Foal Deaths” by Janet Patton, Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader 

“Flying Blind” and “Flight Capital” by Matt Smith, San Francisco Weekly

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 CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

“The Numbers Game, Why Earnings Are Too Rosy, Confused About Earnings” by David Henry and Nanette Byrnes, BusinessWeek

“But Wait, You Promised…” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company

“Hollywood’s Information Man” by Amy Wallace, Los Angeles Magazine

“Is Enron Overpriced?” by Bethany McLean, Fortune

“Power Failure” by Mary Van de Kamp Nohl, Milwaukee Magazine

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CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

“Business and Political Commentary” by Michael Lewis, Bloomberg News

“The Mourning After, I Love (Leave) New York, The Importance of Irrelevance” by Stanley Bing, Fortune

“Wealth of Nations” by Clive Crook, National Journal

“Market Watch” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times

“Stocks.comment” by Scott Herhold, San Jose Mercury News

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CATEGORY F: DEADLINE OR BEAT WRITING

“Wall Street” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times

“Troubled Steel” by Jennifer Scott Cimperman, The Plain Dealer

“Radio’s Big Bully” by Eric Boehlert, Salon.com

1. "Pay for Play"
2. "Fighting Pay-for-play"
3. "Radio's Big Bully"
4. "The 'Bootlyicious' Gambit"
5. "Payola City"
6. "More waves in the radio business"
7. "Suit: Clear Channel is an illegal monopoly"
8. "Rock 'n' radio rumble"
9. "Is Clear Channel playing a 'shell game'?"

“Enron: The Demise of a Giant” by Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller, The Wall Street Journal

“A Pro Forma Riddle” by Jonathan Weil and Steve Liesman, The Wall Street Journal

“Rigging the System” by Susan Pulliam and Randall Smith, The Wall Street Journal

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 CATEGORY G: NEWS OR WIRE SERVICE

“Muddy Markets” by Jonathan Berr, Adam Levy, Peter Robison, Russell Hubbard and Neil Roland, Bloomberg News

1. “Raytheon Briefed Analysts Without Telling the Public”
2. “Raytheon SEC Probe May Test New Disclosure Rules, Analysts Say”
3. “Enron CEO Skilling Takes Company in New Directions”
4. “U.S. Earnings Reports Miss Point — How Much Did Company Earn?”
5. “Enron Investors Say Lay Must Deliver on Earnings Transparency”
6. “SEC to Charge Company With Misleading `Pro Formas”
7. “SEC to File First Fair Disclosure Case, Pitt Says”

“September 11: The Day Terrorism Changed Wall Street” by Phil Serafino, David Morris, Vince Golle, Andrew Ward, Glen Justice, Laura Smitherman, Tony Capaccio, Liz Skinner, Roger Runningen, Anna Maria Stolley, Susan Decker and Robert Parry, Bloomberg News

“Sham of Enron” by Adam Levy, Loren Steffy and Edward Robinson, Bloomberg News

“Buying Into Trouble” by Wylie Wong and Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com

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  CATEGORY H AND I: TELEVISION

“The Money Trail” by Allan Dodds Frank and Lisa Slow, Cable News Network/CNNfn

“Widows” by Maria Bartiromo, CNBC

“Cooper Tires” by Michael Kosnar and Rob Stafford, Dateline NBC

“Presses Under Pressure” by Terence Smith, Anne Davenport, Ilyse Veron and Lester M. Crystal, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

“Right on the Money: Parenting on One Income” by Margaret Brower, Chris Farrell and Nicole Tundel, Twin Cities Public Television

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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS

“Asleep at The Wheel” by Terril Yue Jones, Myron Levin, Davan Maharaj, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Bill Loving, Los Angeles Times

“Artful Dodgers” by David Cay Johnston, The New York Times

“The Medicine Merchants” by Jeff Gerth, Donald G. McNeil, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times

“The Trouble with SUVs” by Keith Bradsher, The New York Times

“The Body Brokers” by William Heisel, Mark Katches, Ronald Campbell, The Orange County Register

“Formula for Disaster” by Alix M. Freedman, Steve Stecklow, The Wall Street Journal

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 CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS

“Medical Research: Can We Trust It?” by Matthew Kauffman, Andrew Julien, The Hartford Courant

“Fall of Capital Consultants by James Long, Jeff Manning, The Oregonian

“Government Inc.” by Robert Sargent, Ramsey Campbell, Jim Leusner, Sean Holton, The Orlando Sentinel

“Crashing for Cash” by Fred Schulte, Jenni Bergal, The Sun Sentinel

“Global Trade-Offs” by Karen Weintraub, Dennis O’Brien, Linda McNatt, The Virginian Pilot

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 CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS

“Crisis at Our Doorstep” by The Staff of the Cape Cod Times, The Cape Cod Times

“Paying the Price” and “Pumped Dry” by Bob Burtman, The Houston Press

“Porn in the USA” by Bruce Rushton, The Riverfront Times (St. Louis, MO)

“Where the Buffalo Moan” by Jonathan Shikes, Westword

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 CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES

“Burning Fast” by Jack Willoughby, Barron’s

“AOL’s Rough Riders” by Gary Rivlin, The Industry Standard

“Glowing Numbers” by Jon Birger, Money Magazine

“At the End of the Rope” by Jim Morris, U.S. News and World Report

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 CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY

“Executive Compensation Columns” by Graef Crystal, Bloomberg News

“The Barker Portfolio” by Robert Barker, BusinessWeek

“Wealth of Nations” by Clive Crook, National Journal

“Floyd Norris Columns” by Floyd Norris, The New York Times

“A Series of Columns on Washington and Wall Street” by Allan Sloan, Newsweek

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 CATEGORY F: DEADLINE OR BEAT WRITING

“The Time Warner/AOL Merger” by The Dow Jones Newswires Staff, Dow Jones Newswires

“Artful Dodgers” by David Cay Johnston, The New York Times

“Many Holes Weaken Safety Net for Victims” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times

“Juice Squeeze” by Rebecca Smith, The Wall Street Journal

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 CATEGORY G: TELEVISION

“The Business of Hip Hop” by Robert Krulwich, ABC News Nightline

“Net Worth” by Sophia Faskianos, Dateline NBC - NBC News

“The Paper Chase” by Lynne Dale, John Larson, Dateline NBC - NBC News

“International Con Man” by Byron Harris, Gary Ultee, John Pronk, Jesus Hernandez, WFAA-TV

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CATEGORY H: RADIO

“Merchant Power Plan Proposals Create Static” by Janet Babin, Indiana Public Radio

“The 100 Greatest Events in the History of the Automotive Industry” by Ed Wallace, KLIF-AM (Dallas, TX)

“Engineering Crops in a Needy World” by John Biewen, Deborah George, Minnesota Public Radio

“Marketplace on the Road” by Deborah Clark, Minnesota Public Radio

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