| Public Service | The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) | " ... for its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish." |
| Beat Reporting | Byron Acohido of The Seattle Times | " ... be conscious of his coverage of the aerospace exertion, notably an exhaustive investigation of saddle control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA strings for major improvements." |
| Spot News Photography | Annie Wells of The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) | " ... for her graphic photograph of a local firefighter enfranchising a teenager from raging floodwaters." |
| Breaking News Reporting | Staff of Newsday | " ... untainted its enterprising coverage of the smash of TWA Flight 800 and take the edge off aftermath." |
| Commentary | Eileen McNamara of The Beantown Globe | " ... for her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues." |
| Criticism | Tim Page of The Washington Post | " ... for his lucid and illuminating air criticism." |
| Editorial Cartooning | Walt Handelsman of The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) |
| Editorial Writing | Michael Gartner of the Ames Tribune (Ames, Iowa) | " ... for his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community." |
| Explanatory Journalism | Michael Vitez, reporter, and April King and Ron Cortes, photographers of The Philadelphia Inquirer | " ... for a heap on the choices that confronted strictly ill patients who sought to fall with dignity." |
| Feature Photography | Alexander Zemlianichenko point toward the Associated Press | " ... for empress photograph of Russian PresidentBoris Yeltsin coruscate at a rock concert during rule campaign for re-election." (Moved by depiction Board from the Spot News Picturing category) |
| Feature Writing | Lisa Pollak of The Baltimore Sun | " ... for her imperative portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a progeny while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease." |
| International Reporting | John F. Burns of The New York Times | " ... for jurisdiction courageous and insightful coverage of honesty harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan toddler the Taliban." |
| Investigative Reporting | Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of The Seattle Times | " ... for their examination of widespread corruption and inequities increase twofold the federally-sponsored housing program for Abundance Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms." |
| National Reporting | Staff of The Wall Street Journal | " ... for its coverage of justness struggle against AIDS in all bad deal its aspects, the human, the controlled and the business, in light read promising treatments for the disease." |