Pulitzer Prize For Specialized Reporting
- 1985: Randall Savage and Jackie Crosby of the Macon Telegraph and News, for their in-depth examination of academics and athletics at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
- 1986: Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty of Pittsburgh Press, for their investigation of violations and failures in the organ transplantation system in the United States.
- 1987: Alex S. Jones of The New York Times, for The Fall of the House of Bingham, a skillful and sensitive report of a powerful newspaper family's bickering and how it led to the sale of a famed media empire.
- 1988: Walt Bogdanich of The Wall Street Journal, for his chilling series of reports on faulty testing by American medical laboratories.
- 1989: Edward Humes of The Orange County Register, for his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California.
- 1990: Tamar Stieber of Albuquerque Journal, For persistent reporting that linked a rare blood disorder to an over-the-counter dietary supplement, L-Tryptophan, and led to a national recall of the product.
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