1985

Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times), and William K. Marimow (Philadelphia Inquirer)

1986

Jeffrey A. Marx and Michael M. York (Lexington [Ky.] Herald Leader)

1987

Daniel R. Biddle, H. G. Bissinger, and Fredric N. Tulsky (Philadelphia Inquirer)

1988

Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines, and Ann Marie Lipinski (Chicago Tribune)

1989

Bill Dedman (Atlanta Journal and Constitution)

1990

Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

1991

Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden (Indianapolis Star)

1992

Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone (Dallas Morning News)

1993

Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry (Orlando [Fla.] Sentinel)

1994

Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin staff

1995

Stephanie Saul and Brian Donovan (Newsday)

1996

Orange County Register staff (Santa Ana, Calif.)

1997

Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson, and Alex Tizon (Seattle Times)

1998

Gary Cohn and Will Englund (The Sun [Baltimore, Md.])

1999

The Miami Herald staff

2000

Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, and Martha Mendoza (Associated Press)

2001

David Willman (Los Angeles Times)

2002

Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Sarah Cohen (Washington Post)

2003

Clifford J. Levy (New York Times)

2004

Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss, and Joe Mahr (The Blade [Toledo, Ohio])

2005

Nigel Jaquiss (Willamette Week [Portland, Ore.])

2006

Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith (The Washington Post)

2007

Brett Blackledge (Birmingham News [Birmingham, Ala.])

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