Awards.

The Pulitzer Prizes

Prizes in Journalism

PUBLIC SERVICE

The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Mississippi and The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

FINALISTS: The Blade, Toledo, Ohio; The Washington Post

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

The Times-Picayune staff

FINALISTS: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff; South Florida Sun-Sentinel staff

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

Susan Schmidt, James v. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post

FINALISTS: Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, Los Angeles Times; Sally Kestin, Megan O'Matz, and John Maines, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

EXPLANATORY REPORTING

David Finkel, The Washington Post

FINALISTS: Debbie Cenziper, The Miami Herald; Mark Johnson and Kawanza Newson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

BEAT REPORTING

Dana Priest, The Washington Post

FINALISTS: Barry Meier, The New York Times; Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi

NATIONAL REPORTING

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service staffs

FINALIST: Michael Moss, The New York Times

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING

Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley, The New York Times

FINALIST: Steve Fainaru, The Washington Post; Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times

FEATURE WRITING

Jim Sheeler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado

FINALISTS: Dan Barry, The New York Times; Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune

COMMENTARY

Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times

FINALISTS: Chris Rose, The Times-Picayune; Cynthia Tucker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

CRITICISM

Robin Givhan, The Washington Post

FINALISTS: Nicolai Ouroussoff, The New York Times; Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice

EDITORIAL WRITING

Rick Attig and Doug Bates, The Oregonian, Portland

FINALISTS: Editorial Board, The Birmingham (Alabama) News; B. Marie Harris, Tony Biffle, and Stan Tiner, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Mississippi

EDITORIAL CARTOONING Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

FINALISTS: Marshall Ramsey, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi; Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

The Dallas Morning News staff

FINALISTS: Carolyn Cole and Brian Vander Brug, Los Angeles Times; Eric Gay, The Associated Press

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Todd Heisler, Rocky Mountain News

FINALISTS: Mike Stocker, South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Damon Winter, Los Angeles Times

Letters and Drama

FICTION

March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

FINALISTS: The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House); The Bright Forever by Lee Martin (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishing)

DRAMA

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FINALISTS: Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones; Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp

HISTORY

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)

FINALISTS: New York Burning by Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf); The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (W.W. Norton)

BIOGRAPHY

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)

FINALISTS: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Alfred A. Knopf); The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin)

POETRY

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)

FINALISTS: American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press); Elegy on Toy Piano by Dean Young (University of Pittsburgh Press)

GENERAL NON-FICTION

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

FINALISTS: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt (The Penguin Press); The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

MUSIC

Piano Concerto: "Chiavi in Mano" by Yehudi Wyner (Associated Music Publishers, Inc.)

FINALISTS: Neruda Songs by Peter Lieberson (Associated Music Publishers, Inc.); Si Ji (Four Seasons) by Chen Yi (Theodore Presser Company)

The Lukas Prize Project

Co-administered by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard

WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD

Laura Claridge for Emily Post and the Rise of Practical Feminism (Random House)

MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE

Megan Marshall for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (Houghton Mifflin)

J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE

Nate Blakeslee for Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town (Public Affairs)

John B. Oakes Award

DISTINGUISHED ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM

Harper's Magazine and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

John Chancellor Award

EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi

The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

SILVER BATONS, FOR EXCELLENCE IN BROADCAST JOURNALISM

ABC News for live coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI

CNBC for The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company

CNN for coverage of the tsunami disaster in South Asia

Frontline and WGBH (Boston) for Al Qaeda's New Front on PBS

Frontline, WGBH (Boston), and The New York Times for The Secret History of the Credit Card on PBS

HBO for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Sport of Sheikhs

North Carolina Public Radio, WUNC (Chapel Hill), for North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty

PRI, WGBH (Boston), and BBC World Service for The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies

The Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison, and NPR for Hidden Kitchens

The Sundance Channel, Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier de LeStrade, and Allyson Luchak for The Staircase

WFTS-TV (Tampa) for Crosstown Expressway Investigation

WJW (Cleveland) for School Bus Bloat

WPMI-TV (Mobile) for For Lauren's Sake

National Magazine Awards

Sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism

These are all finalists, listed in alphabetical order. The winners are to be announced on May 9.

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

(Over 2,000,000 circulation)

Glamour

National Geographic

O, The Oprah Magazine

Prevention

Time

(1,000,000 to 2,000,000)

ESPN The Magazine

Fortune

Martha Stewart Living

The New Yorker

Vogue

(500,000 to 1,000,000)

Esquire

Everyday Food

House & Garden

Marie Claire

Runner's World

Wired

(250,000 to 500,000)

The Atlantic Monthly

Backpacker

New York Magazine

Texas Monthly

Technology Review

(100,000 to 250,000)

Chicago

Foreign Policy

Harper's Magazine

Harvard Business Review

Town & Country Travel

(Under 100,000)

Aperture

The Believer

Legal Affairs

ReadyMade

The Virginia Quarterly

Review

PERSONAL SERVICE

Field & Stream

Men's Health

National Geographic

O, The Oprah Magazine

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LEISURE INTERESTS

Bicycling

Conde Nast Traveler

Golf Magazine

GQ

Men's Health

REPORTING

The Atlantic Monthly (two nominations)

Harper's Magazine

The New Yorker

Rolling Stone

PUBLIC INTEREST

The Atlantic Monthly

Legal Affairs

Mother Jones

The New Yorker

Texas Monthly

FEATURE WRITING

The American Scholar

The Atlantic Monthly

GQ

Outside

The Oxford American

PROFILE WRITING

The Atlantic Monthly

Esquire

GQ

Los Angeles Magazine

The New Yorker

Rolling Stone

ESSAYS

Harper's Magazine (two nominations)

Vanity Fair

The Virginia Quarterly Review (two nominations)

COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY

Field & Stream

Inc.

The New Yorker

Scientific American

Vanity Fair

REVIEWS AND CRITICISM

The Atlantic Monthly

GQ

Harper's Magazine

New York Magazine

The Virginia Quarterly Review

BEST MAGAZINE DEPARTMENTS

Backpacker

Conde Nast Traveler

Entertainment Weekly

Men's Health

New York Magazine

SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE

National Geographic

The Oxford American

Saveur

Scientific American

Time

DESIGN

Everyday Food

GQ

Kids: Fun Stuff to Do Together

Martha Stewart Living

New York Magazine

Nylon

PHOTOGRAPHY

Departures

Gourmet

New York Magazine

Time

Texas Monthly

W

PHOTO PORTFOLIO/ PHOTO ESSAY

Aperture

Field & Stream

National Geographic

Rolling Stone

Vanity Fair

W

FICTION

The Atlantic Monthly

McSweeney's

The Virginia Quarterly Review (two nominations)

Zoetrope: All-Story

GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE

Beliefnet

CNET.com

Men.style.com

National Geographic Online

Newsweek.com