Distinguished Deadline Reporting
Under 50,000 circulation
1st place - Tri-City Herald, Terror: Attack on America
2nd place - Idaho State Journal, Extra Edition 9/11

Distinguished Deadline Reporting
Over 50,000 circulation
1st place - The Salt Lake Tribune, 2002 Winter Olympics Sections
2nd place - The Seattle Times, Nisqually Earthquake

Distinguished Feature Writing
Under 50,000 circulation
1st place - Eastside Journal, "I can win", Nathan Fenno
2nd place - Tri-City Herald, "Living Little," Karen Zacharias

Distinguished Feature Writing
Over 50,000 circulation
1st place - The Oregonian, "This is how we live," Julie Sullivan
2nd place - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "A shot in the dark," M.L. Lyke

Distinguished Enterprise Reporting
Under 50,000 circulation
1st place - Yakima Herald-Republic, "Murders in a small town," Jesse A. Hamilton
2nd place - Tri-City Herald, "Deja Boom," Nathan Isaacs, Kristin M. Kraemer, John Trumbo

Distinguished Enterprise Reporting
Over 50,000 circulation
1st place - The Spokesman Review, "Trail to a serial killer," Jeanette White, Bill Morlin, Mike Roarke, Staff
2nd place - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "The Mining of the West"

Distinguished Investigative Reporting
Under 50,000 circulation
1st place -Yakima Herald-Republic, "Trapped at Thirtymile," Stephanie Earls, Jesse A. Hamilton, Mark Morey, Tom Roeder
2nd place - Place The Bulletin (Bend), "Community Justice and the Community Youth"

Distinguished Investigative Reporting
Over 50,000 circulation
1st place - The Seattle Times, "Uninformed Consent," Duff Wilson, David Heath
2nd place - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Decades of sex abuse plague deaf school," Ruth Teichroeb

Distinguished Coverage of Diversity
Under 50,000 circulation
1st place - The Herald (Everett), A range of stories, Theresa Goffredo
2nd place - Idaho State Journal, "Gay Pride," Penelope Reedy and staff

Distinguished Coverage of Diversity
Over 50,000 circulation
1st place - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Columns, Robert Jamieson, Jr.
2nd place - The Seattle Times, A range of stories

Debby Lowman Award
All circulations
1st place - The Oregonian, "Assisted Living at any Cost," Brent Walth and Erin Hoover Barnett
2nd place - The Post Register, Idaho Falls, "Pinched for Power," Paul Menser, Kortny Rolston
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