The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in reporting and the arts were announced Monday. A committee of editors, publishers, writers and educators voted on the winners, who are listed below.
JOURNALISM CATEGORIES PUBLIC SERVICE: The Washington Post for its investigation of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, and The Guardian for its reporting on surveillance. BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: The Boston Globe staff for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the manhunt that followed.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C., for reports on how lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny beneÿts to coal miners with black lung disease.
EXPLANATORY REPORTING: Eli Saslow of The Washington Post for reports on food stamps in post-recession America.
LOCAL REPORTING: Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia of the Tampa Bay Times for reporting on housing conditions of the city’s homeless population.
NATIONAL REPORTING: David Philipps of The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo., for reports on the mistreatment of wounded combat veterans.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall of Reuters for stories on the violent persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority group in Burma. FEATURE WRITING: No winner.
COMMENTARY: Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press for columns on the financial crisis in Detroit.
CRITICISM: Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer for architecture criticism.
EDITORIAL WRITING Editorial staff of The Oregonian, Portland, for editorials on rising pension costs.
EDITORIAL CARTOONING: Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer.
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: Tyler Hicks of The New York Times for pictures of the terrorist attack at Kenya’s Westgate mall.
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Josh Haner of The New York Times for an essay on a Boston Marathon bombing victim.
LETTERS, DRAMA AND MUSIC CATEGORY FICTION: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
DRAMA: The Flick by Annie Baker. HISTORY The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor.
BIOGRAPHY: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall.
POETRY: 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri.
GENERAL NONFICTION: Toms River:A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin.
MUSIC: “Become Ocean” by John Luther Adams.
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