1985 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The
    Huey helicopters
    pending their modification.
• General News Reporting
  :
  • Thomas Turcol of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, for City Hall coverage which exposed the corruption of a local economic development official.
• Investigative Reporting:
  • William K. Marimow of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his revelation that city police dogs had attacked more than 350 people - an exposé that led to investigations of the K-9 unit and the removal of a dozen officers from it.
• Investigative Reporting:
  • Pasco County
    Sheriff John Short, which revealed his department's corruption and led to his removal from office by voters.
• Explanatory Journalism
  :
  • The Baltimore Evening Sun, for his seven-part series The Mind Fixers, about the new science of molecular psychiatry
    .
• Specialized Reporting
  :
  • Georgia Institute of Technology. At 23, Crosby became the youngest ever Pulitzer winner (becoming second youngest after Stephanie Welsh's 1996 win at age 22).^[1]
• National reporting:
  • Des Moines Register
    , for his series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an occupation.
• International Reporting:
  • Joshua Friedman and Dennis Bell, reporters, and Ozier Muhammad, photographer of Newsday, for their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa.
• Feature Writing:
  • blind
    boy's world, A Boy of Unusual Vision.
• Commentary:
  • Murray Kempton of Newsday, for witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career.
• Criticism:
  • Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times, for his television criticism.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Richard Aregood of the Philadelphia Daily News, for his editorials on a variety of subjects.
• Editorial Cartooning
  :
  • Jeff MacNelly of the Chicago Tribune.
• Spot News Photography
  :
  • Photography Staff of Register, for their exceptional coverage of the Olympic games.
• Feature Photography:
  • Larry C. Price of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his series of photographs from Angola and El Salvador depicting their war-torn inhabitants.
• Feature Photography:
  • illegal aliens
    on the Mexican border.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
  • Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
• Drama:
  • Dodd, Mead
    )
• History:
  • Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard)
• Biography or autobiography
  :
  • The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by
    Harper & Row
    )
• Poetry:
  • Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)
• General non-fiction
  :
  • "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel (Pantheon)
• Music:
  • National Symphony Orchestra
    on January 17, 1985.