1994 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
• *Akron Beacon Journal, for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.
• Spot News Reporting:
• *Staff of The New York Times, for its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
• Investigative Reporting:
• *Staff of The Providence Journal-Bulletin, for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system.
• Explanatory Journalism:
• *Ronald Kotulak of the Chicago Tribune, for his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science.
• Beat Reporting:
• *Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of The Detroit News, for dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
• National Reporting:
• *Eileen Welsome of The Albuquerque Tribune, for stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
• International Reporting:
• *Dallas Morning News Team of The Dallas Morning News, for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
• Feature Writing:
• *Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
• Commentary:
• *William Raspberry of The Washington Post, for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
• Criticism:
• *Lloyd Schwartz of the Boston Phoenix, a weekly, for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.
• Editorial Writing:
• *R. Bruce Dold of the Chicago Tribune, for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
• Editorial Cartooning:
• *Michael P. Ramirez of The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues.
• Spot News Photography:
• *Paul Watson of the Toronto Star, for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
• Feature Photography:
• *Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.

  Letters awards

• Fiction:
• *The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• History:
• *no award
• Biography or Autobiography:
• *' by David Levering Lewis
• Poetry:
• *' by Yusef Komunyakaa
• General Non-Fiction:
• * by David Remnick

  Arts awards

• Drama:
• *Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
• Music:
• *Of Reminiscences and Reflections by Gunther Schuller