ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, April 10, 1996 TAG: 9604100060
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-8 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
SOURCE: Associated Press
The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism Tuesday for stories on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal in hog farming.
The New York Times won three Pulitzers, and Newsday won two. The Associated Press won for spot news photography for a photo taken by a free-lancer of an infant being cradled by a firefighter after the Oklahoma City bombing.
``I'm honored to win, but this is not necessarily the time for parties and celebrations and champagne bottles,'' said Charles Porter IV, a 26-year-old bank employee whose photo was distributed by the AP.
``I'm torn because of the picture," Porter said. "I don't want to lose sight of the fact that this picture represents anyone and everyone who was involved in this tragedy.''
A special award was given to Herb Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist, for what the board described as ``his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and a conscience of his city.''
The prizes, the most prestigious awards given for journalism, are presented annually by Columbia University.
The News & Observer was honored for its series it called ``Boss Hog.'' The five-part report showed that waste lagoons posed an environmental danger.
The series documented the political connections between powerful industry leaders and state politicians and regulators.
The prize for spot news reporting went to Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times for a variety of stories done on deadline.
The staff of The Orange County (Calif.) Register won for investigative reporting for stories that uncovered fraud in a fertility clinic.
The award for explanatory journalism was won by Laurie Garrett of Newsday for her reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak. Another Newsday reporter, Bob Keeler, won the beat reporting prize for his detailed portrait of a progressive local Roman Catholic parish.
The national reporting prize went to Alix M. Freedman of The Wall Street Journal for her coverage of the tobacco industry
David Rohde of The Christian Science Monitor won the international reporting award for his reports on the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
The feature writing prize went to Rick Bragg of The New York Times for his stories about contemporary America, and E.R. Shipp of the New York Daily News won the commentary award for her columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
The criticism prize was awarded to Robert Campbell of The Boston Globe for his writing on architecture, and the editorial writing prize went to Robert B. Semple Jr. of The New York Times for his editorials on environmental issues. Jim Morin of The Miami Herald won the editorial cartooning Pulitzer.
Stephanie Welsh, a free-lancer, won the feature photography prize for a sequence of photos of a female circumcision rite in Kenya. The photos were distributed by Newhouse News Service.
LENGTH: Medium: 64 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: AP file/1995. Free-lancer Charles Porter IV shot thisby CNBphoto of Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields cradling the body of
1-year-old Baylee Almon.