Finalists: Juliette Kayyem of The Boston Globe for her colorful, well reported columns on an array of issues, from women in combat to oil drilling in Alaska, and Mark Di Ionno of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.
"I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, " he told The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.