SPOTLIGHT AWARD ON DEATH

Judged by Lisa Pollak, The Baltimore Sun, winner of the Ernie Pyle award and the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

First Place
Gilbert Garcia, Phoenix New Times, "End of a Record Run"

"I thought the first place choice was a compelling profile of a complex man--Zia Record Exhange founder Brad Singer--that also gave a good sense of the workings of a local music community, both from a business and human perspective."

Second Place
Peter Aleshire, Phoenix Magazine, "The Heiress and the Cowboy"

"...a captivating and vividly detailed (though somewhat sordid and sensationalistic) story of a drowned socialite."

Third Place
Norma Coile, The Arizona Daily Star, "The Liberal Arizonans Loved"

"I thought [this], a front page obituary of Morris Udall, was the best written of all the obituaries of this type (Udall, Goldwater, Linda McCartney, etc.) that were entered."