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Members of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune toast their Pulitzer win Monday in their North Andover newsroom. From left are senior managing editor Al White, editor in chief Bill Ketter, and metro editor Gretchen Putnam. (AP Photo)
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Lawrence Eagle-Tribune wins Pulitzer for story of boys killed falling through ice
By Associated Press, 4/7/03
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 Globe wins Pulitzer for clergy series
Globe spurred scrutiny worldwide
McGrory: Credit where credit is due
Journalism
Public service: The Boston Globe.
Breaking news reporting: Staff, The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass.
Investigative reporting: Clifford J. Levy of The New York Times.
Explanatory reporting: Staff, The Wall Street Journal.
Beat reporting: Diana K. Sugg of The (Baltimore) Sun.
National reporting: Alan Miller and Kevin Sack of the Los Angeles Times.
International reporting: Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan of The Washington Post.
Feature writing: Sonia Nazario of the Los Angeles Times.
Commentary: Colbert I. King of The Washington Post.
Criticism: Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post.
Editorial writing: Cornelia Grumman of the Chicago Tribune.
Editorial cartooning: David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Breaking news photography: Staff, Rocky Mountain News of Denver.
Feature photography: Don Bartletti of the Los Angeles Times.
Arts
Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides for "Middlesex."
Drama: Nilo Cruz for "Anna In the Tropics."
History: Rick Atkinson for "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943."
Biography: Robert A. Caro for "Master of the Senate."
Poetry: Paul Muldoon for "Moy Sand and Gravel."
General Nonfiction: Samantha Power for "'A Problem From Hell:' America and the Age of Genocide."
Music: John Adams for "On the Transmigration of Souls."
These reporters and editors led the Globe's investigation of the clergy sexual abuse scandal:
Projects Editor
Ben Bradlee Jr.
Members of the Spotlight Team
Editor Walter V. Robinson
Michael Rezendes
Sacha Pfeiffer
Matt Carroll
Other investigative reporters
Stephen Kurkjian
Kevin Cullen
Thomas Farragher
Religion reporter
Michael Paulson
List of past Globe Pulitzer Prizes
Other Globe editorial awards
The Pulitzer Prizes
www.pulitzer.org
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LAWRENCE, Mass. -- The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer for breaking news Monday for its coverage of the deaths of four boys who died after they waded onto the fragile ice of the Merrimack River.
It was the second Pulitzer in the newspaper's 135-year history.
The tragedy gripped a nation moved to tears about four boys, ages 7 to 11, dying while out for a day of fun.
Christopher Casado, 7; Mackendy Constant, 8; Victor Baez, 9; and William Rodriguez, 11, were walking home from the nearby Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lawrence when they ventured out on the river.
William fell through the one- to two-inch thick ice, and the other three died after they ventured in the water to try to save him, three other boys who survived have said.
The community pulled behind the victims' families, who immigrated to the heavily Hispanic city from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The newspaper won a Pulitzer in 1988 for its coverage of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis' furlough of convicted murderer Willie Horton, which sparked a firestorm in his presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush.
