PUBLIC INTEREST

This category recognizes journalism that has the potential to affect national or local policy or lawmaking. It honors investigative reporting or groundbreaking analysis that sheds new light on an issue of public importance.

• 5280 Magazine: Daniel Brogan, editor and publisher, for Private Stites Should Have Been Saved, by Maximillian Potter, June/July.
• Fortune: Rik Kirkland, managing editor, for Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer (and How to Win It), by Clifton Leaf, March 22.
• Harper’s Magazine: Lewis H. Lapham, editor, for Gambling with Abortion: Why Both Sides Think They Have Everything to Lose, by Cynthia Gorney, November.
• The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for the three articles by Seymour M. Hersh, Torture at Abu Ghraib; May 10, Chain of Command, May 17; The Gray Zone, May 24.
• San Francisco: Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief, for Innocence Lost, by Nina Martin, November.

Reporting:

This category recognizes excellence in reporting. It honors the enterprise, exclusive reporting and intelligent analysis that a magazine exhibits in covering an event, a situation or a problem of contemporary interest and significance.

• 5280 Magazine: Daniel Brogan, editor and publisher, for Conduct Unbecoming, by Maximillian Potter, February/March.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Philip W. Semas, editor-in-chief, for Degrees of Suspicion: Inside the Multimillion-Dollar World of Diploma Mills, by Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood, June 25.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Philip W. Semas, editor-in-chief, for its special report on plagiarism by Thomas Bartlett, Scott Smallwood, David Glenn and Scott McLemee, December 17.
• National Geographic Adventure: John Rasmus, editor-in-chief, for Stomping Grounds, by Paul Kvinta, August.
• The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for Dying in Darfur, by Samantha Power, August 30.