VOL. 23, NO. 21	APRIL 17, 1998

Englund

wo Columbia alumni are among the journalists and artists who yesterday won Pulitzer Prizes: Will Englund, Journalism‘76, for investigative reporting, and Bernard L. Stein, CC ‘63, for editorial writing.

  The 82nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced by President George Rupp.

  Englund, with colleague Gary Cohn at The Baltimore Sun, won the investigative reporting prize for their series on the international shipbreaking industry that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled.

  Stein, editor and co-publisher of the weekly Riverdale Press in the Bronx, N. Y., won for his editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.

  Englund has been with the Baltimore Sun since 1977. He worked briefly as a copy editor, and as a local reporter he covered City Hall and education. In 1988 he worked for the Glasgow Herald in Scotland as a Fulbright fellow. From 1991 to 1995 he and his wife, Kathy Lally, were assigned to Moscow as correspondents for the Sun. A native of Pleasantville, N.Y., he graduated from Harvard and earned his M.S. in journalism from Columbia in 1976.

Stein

  Stein grew up in Riverdale, where his father founded The Riverdale Press in 1960. In 1978, he succeeded his father as editor. Two years later, when his parents retired, he and his brother became co-publishers. Under Stein’s editorship, The Press has won more than 300 state and national awards for excellence and has been named the best weekly newspaper in New York State eight times.

  In 1986, the New York Press named Stein “Writer of the Year.” In 1989, the Press office was firebombed in retaliation for an editorial defending the right to read the novel Satanic Verses. The national Society of Professional Journalists honored the Steins with its First Amendment Award for “exceptional efforts by individuals and institutions to preserve the rights of free speech and free press.”

  He earned his B.A. in English literature from Columbia College in 1963.

  The other winners:

• Public Service: Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald;

• Breaking News Reporting: Los Angeles Times staff;

• Explanatory Reporting: Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune;

• Beat Reporting: Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times;

• National Reporting: Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of the Dayton Daily News;

• International Reporting: The New York Times staff;

• Feature Writing: Thomas French of the St. Petersburg Times;

• Commentary: Mike Mc Alary of the Daily News, New York;

• Criticism: Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times;

• Editorial Cartooning: Stephen P. Breen of the Asbury Park Press;

• Spot News Photography: Martha Rial of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;

• Feature Photography: Clarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times;

• Fiction: American Pastoral by Philip Roth;

• Drama: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel;

• History: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson;

• Biography: Personal History by Katherine Graham;

• Poetry: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright;

• General Non-Fiction: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond;

• Music: String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis by Aaron Jay Kernis, and

• Special Citation: George Gershwin.