Awards: this year's winners of the Pulitzers, the duPonts, and the National Magazine awards.

The Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service

Los Angeles Times

FINALISTS: The Orange County Register; Pensacola (Florida) News Journal

Breaking News Reporting The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) staff

FINALISTS: The Charlotte Sun staff, (Charlotte Harbor,

Investigative Reporting

Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week, (Portland, Oregon)

FINALISTS: Diana B. Henriques, The New York Times; Clark Kauffman, The Des Moines Register

Explanatory Reporting

Gareth Cook, The Boston Globe

FINALISTS: William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, The New York Times; the Newsday, staff (Long Island, New York)

Beat Reporting

Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal

FINALISTS: Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times; Dana Priest, The Washington Post

National Reporting

Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times

FINALISTS: Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett, The Oregonian; The Washington Post staff

International Reporting

Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times; Dele Olojede, Newsday (Long Island, New York)

FINALIST: Borzou Daragahi, The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)

Feature Writing

Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

FINALISTS: Robin Gaby Fisher, The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey); Anne Hull, The Washington Post

Commentary

Connie Schultz, The Plain Dealer

FINALISTS: Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times; Tommy Tomlinson, The Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer

Criticism

Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

FINALISTS: Frank Rich, The New York Times: Carlin Romano, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Editorial Writing

Tom Philp, The Sacramento Bee

FINALISTS: Sebastian Mallaby, The Washington Post; David Yarnold and Daniel Vasquez, San Jose Mercury News

Editorial Cartooning

Nick Anderson, The Courier-Journal, (Louisville)

FINALISTS: Garry Trudeau, Universal Press Syndicate; Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post

Breaking News Photography

The Associated Press staff

FINALISTS: Arko Datta, Reuters; The Palm Beach Post staff

Feature Photography

Deanne Fitzmaurice, San Francisco Chronicle

FINALISTS: Jim Gehrz, Star Tribune, (Minneapolis):

Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times

Letters and Drama

Fiction

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

FINALISTS: War Trash by Ha Jin (Pantheon Books); An Unfinished Season by Ward Just (Houghton Mifflin)

Drama

Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley

FINALISTS: Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno; The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl

History

Washington's by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)

FINALISTS: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt); Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life, and the American South, 1810-1860, Volumes 1 & 2 by Michael O'Brien (The University of North Carolina Press)

Biography

de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf)

FINALISTS: Will in the World. How Shakespeare, Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton); Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry

Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)

FINALISTS: The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (BOA Editions, Ltd.); Search Party: Collected Poems by the late William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin)

General Non-Fiction

Ghost Wars: The Secret History, of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)

FINALISTS: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Alfred A. Knopf); The Devil's Highway: A True Story, by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown and Company)

Music

Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky

FINALISTS: Dialogues by Elliot Carter; You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich

The duPont Awards

Silver Batons

ABC News and PJ Productions for Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness

ABC News and PrimeTime Thursday for the Nuclear Smuggling Project

David Appleby and the University of Memphis for Hoxie: The First Stand on PBS

Frontline and WGBH-TV for Ghosts of Rwanda on PBS

Frontline and WGBH-TV for Truth, War and Consequences on PBS

HBO/Cinemax Reel Life, Victoria Bruce, and Karin

Hayes for The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt

Louisiana Public Broadcasting for Louisiana: Currents of Change

MSNBC and National Geographic Ultimate Explorer for Liberia: American Dream?

NBC News and Dateline for A Pattern of Suspicion

National Public Radio and Radio Diaries for Mandela: An Audio History

WBAP-AM, Dallas, for JFK 40

WCNC-TV, Charlotte, for Medicaid Dental Centers Investigation

WFAA-TV, Dallas, for State of Denial

National Magazine Awards

General Excellence

(Over 2,000,000 circ.)

Glamour

FINALISTS

Good Housekeeping

National Geographic

Newsweek

Sports Illustrated

(1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circ.)

The New Yorker

FINALISTS

Fortune

Men's Health

Real Simple

Vanity Fair

(500,000 to 1,000,000 circ.)

Wired

FINALISTS

Cook's Illustrated

Esquire

Gourmet

Vibe

(250,000 to 500,000 circ.)

Martha Stewart Weddings

FINALISTS

The Atlantic Monthly

Cure

Details

New York Magazine

(100,000 to 250,000 circ.)

Dwell

FINALISTS

Baseline

Foreign Policy

Los Angeles Magazine

Teacher Magazine

(Under 100,000 circ.)

Print

FINALISTS

The American Scholar

The Believer

ReadyMade

The Virginia Quarterly Review

Personal Service

BabyTalk

FINALISTS

Budget Living

Money

Self

U.S. News & World Report

Leisure Interests

Sports Illustrated

FINALISTS

Golf Digest

National Geographic Adventure

O, The Oprah Magazine

Runner's World

Reporting

The New Yorker

FINALISTS

5280 Magazine

The Chronicle of Higher Education (2 nominations)

National Geographic Adventure

Public Interest

The New Yorker

FINALISTS

5280 Magazine

Fortune

Harper's Magazine

San Francisco Magazine

Feature Writing

Esquire

FINALISTS

The Atlantic Monthly

GQ

Texas Monthly

Vanity Fair

Profile Writing

The New Yorker

FINALISTS

Rolling Stone

Sports Illustrated

Vanity Fair (2 nominations)

Essays

National Geographic

FINALISTS

The Atlantic Monthly

Esquire

Ms. Magazine

The New Yorker

Columns and Commentary

National Journal

FINALISTS

The New Yorker

Smart Money

Vanity Fair (2 nominations)

Reviews and Criticism

The New Yorker

FINALISTS

GQ

The New Republic

Vanity Fair

Magazine Section

Popular Science

FINALISTS

AARP The Magazine

ESPN The Magazine

New York Magazine

Runner's World

Single-Topic Issue

Newsweek

FINALISTS

Discover

Fortune

Gourmet

Print

Design

Kids:" Fun Stuff To Do Together

FINALISTS

Details

Everyday Food

Ski

W

Photography

Gourmet

FINALISTS

Country Home

Details

Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together

New York Magazine

Photo Portfolio/Photo Essay

Time

FINALISTS

Aperture

Conde Nast Traveler

Departures

Los Angeles Magazine

The New Yorker

Fiction

The Atlantic Monthly

FINALISTS

Harper's Magazine

The New Yorker

The Paris Review

The Virginia Quarterly Review

General Excellence Online

Style.com

FINALISTS

The Atlantic Online

BusinessWeek Online

ConsumerReports.org

Nerve.com