1991 Pulitzer Prize
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The Pulitzer Prizes for 1991 included not only awards given in all categories, but two separate awards were given for International Reporting:
- Public Service:
- Des Moines Register, For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped—which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
- Spot News Reporting:
- Staff of The Miami Herald, For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
- Investigative Reporting:
- Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden of The Indianapolis Star, For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state.
- Explanatory Journalism:
- Susan C. Faludi of The Wall Street Journal, For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance.
- Beat Reporting:
- Natalie Angier of The New York Times, For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
- National Reporting:
- Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe of Gannett News Service, For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.
- International Reporting:
- Serge Schmemann of The New York Times, For his coverage of the reunification of Germany.
- International Reporting:
- Caryle Murphy of The Washington Post, For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
- Feature Writing:
- Sheryl James of the St. Petersburg Times, For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
- Commentary:
- Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Criticism:
- David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times, For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.
- Editorial Writing:
- Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy of The Birmingham News, For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Spot News Photography:
- Greg Marinovich of Associated Press, For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
- Feature Photography:
- William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News, For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.
