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Newspapers over 75,000:

Dave Davis and Ted Wendling
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Documents deaths and injuries resulting from faulty radiation administration in hospitals

Michael D. Sorkin and Louis Rose
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Investigates the chief prosecutor, who for 10 years lived a double life by cracking down on prostitutes during the day and frequenting them with stolen money at night

David Boardman, Susan Gilmore, Eric Nalder and Eric Pryne
The Seattle Times
Investigates a pattern of sexual harassment by U.S. Sen. Brock Adams of Washington

Newspapers under 75,000:

Marianne Lavelle, Marcia Coyle and Claudia MacLachlan
The National Law Journal
Uncovers a pattern of unequal enforcement of federal environmental laws in minority communities

Magazine:

John Barry and Roger Charles
Newsweek
Investigates the cover-up behind the shooting of an Iranian civilian airliner by the U.S. Navy

Jeffrey Denny, Viveca Novak, Vicki Kemper, Peter Overby and Amy Young
Common Cause
Finds an elite group of campaign contributors who enjoyed extraordinary influence with the Bush campaign

Television, Networks:

Lynne Neufer Litt, Richard Kaplan, Susan Barnett and Diane Sawyer
ABC Primetime Live
Investigation reveals that the Food Lion supermarket routinely puts new expiration dates on rotten food

Rob Wallace, Bob Brown and Victor Newfeld
ABC News 20/20
Proves the innocence of three men wrongly convicted of rape in a small town in Pennsylvania

Television, larger markets:

Steve Eckert, Patrick Weiland, Peter Molenda and Brad Koop
WCCO-TV (Minneapolis)
Series spotlights a Minnesota man who made and marketed hard-core child pornography

Art Norman, Marsha Bartel, Doug Longhini, Kate Smyser and Dennis Sampler
WMAQ-TV (Chicago)
Series about hundreds of Chicago policemen who were hired despite previous criminal records

Paul Hogan, Doug Longhini, Kate Smyser, Marsha Bartel, Barbara Bohusz and Dennis Sampler
WMAQ-TV (Chicago)
Investigates then-senatorial candidate Carol Mosely Braun's questionable handling of a large sum of money belonging to her mother