Risser Prize Winners
2007
Judy Pasternak, a reporter in the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, won the prize for her four-part series which revealed how the U.S. government took uranium from Navajo land to build its nuclear arsenal during the Cold War and then abandoned the Navajo people when they began to die.
2006
Matt Jenkins, writer for High Country News, won the prize for a story that chronicled Las Vegas' efforts to increase its water supply during negotiations with the agencies that draw water from the Colorado River.
2005
Reporters Todd Hartman and Jerd Smith, along with photographer Ken Papaleo from the Rocky Mountain News were awarded the prize for "The Last Drop," a five-part series that detailed the degree to which the rivers of Colorado's Rocky Mountains face ominous threats from the thirst of urban development on the Front Range.
