PULITZER 2002 TO WALL STREET JOURNAL

"I hardly expected to find the paper in the driveway Wednesday morning but when I did it was like receiving a piece of New York to touch and to love," wrote OpinionJournal reader and Wall Street Journal subscriber Julia VanHuss on Saturday, Sept. 15. She was responding to Daniel Henninger's powerful editorial-page article that ran on Sept. 12 under the headline "I Saw It All. Then I Saw Nothing."

Yesterday the Pulitzer Board awarded The Wall Street Journal the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting "for its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City." Those circumstances were indeed difficult; the Journal had its office in the World Financial Center, catercorner from the World Trade Center, and the attack scattered the staff, many of whom eventually regrouped at the Journal's temporary headquarters in southern New Jersey. As for Mr. Henninger, after witnessing both plane crashes and the collapse of both towers, he walked several miles uptown to a colleague's apartment, where he wrote his eyewitness account.

"This is the most haunting piece I have ever read," OpinionJournal reader Janice Lyons wrote that week:


To explain what has happened here I have referred friends from all over the world to your column. It is not about who did it, or what we should do. It is about you, and a love affair with New York; the love affair of literally millions of people, New Yorkers or not, with what has become one of the most wonderful cities in the world.

The beauty which evil dissembled on a clear early fall day in New York is now even more clearly etched on my mind because of your piece.

And I want to tell you that even though they will be stained from now on, there will be more beauty and more clear fall days.

Mr. Henninger's article was one of 10 that won the Pulitzer. You can read Mr. Henninger's article, the entire package and the reader responses submitted in the week after the attack.

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