2014 Pulitzer Prize winners

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.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 04/15/2014

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