Log In - New York Times Log In Don't have an account? Sign up here » In order to access our Web site, your Web browser must accept cookies from NYTimes.com. More information » Who will win the Pulitzer Prizes today? A survey of the most impressive journalism from 2015 – Poynter The problem with a Pulitzer preview like this one — aimed ahead of today's 3 p.m. announcement of the 2016 prizes — is that people want a prediction. So here’s one for you: “Hamilton” will win the Pulitzer for drama. Seriously, my annual Poynter pre-prize forecast, as it’s done for a half-dozen years , will focus on the 14 journalism categories — not the seven that are arts-related. And once again we’ll avoid forecasting what the unpredictable Pulitzer Prize board might do. ("Hamilton" may be a good bet, though. Were Lin-Manuel Miranda’s runaway Broadway rap hit to win in the drama category it would be the ninth musical to do so, and the first since 2010’s “Next to Normal.”) Rather, my aim is to point out some likely print and online contenders this year.

The favorites are based on what’s been honored by other press contests in the weeks leading up to Pulitzers — the most revered of U.S. awards and the oldest, celebrating their centennial this year. I'll also focus on the reporting-based categories — for the most part setting aside photojournalism, commentary, criticism and editorial writing and cartooning. Earlier journalism contests actually offer little real help in Pulitzer prognostication. That’s because most others produce numerous winners, compared to the relative handful of Pulitzers. Plus, one must account for various quirks within the top-secret operations of the Pulitzer board, whose 18 members began their three-day meeting Wednesday at the Journalism Building at New York’s Columbia University, which manages the prizes. The board, for example, often seems to enjoy identifying at least one or two smaller news organizations that generally are off the radar screen of other competitions. Such was the case last year when a team from Southern California’s Daily Breeze won a local reporting Pulitzer for its study of school district corruption, and in 2013 when the small, online-only InsideClimate News was a national reporting winner for its probe of flawed oil pipeline regulations.

This year, Pulitzer administrator Mike Pride told Poynter in an email that journalism submissions had dipped to 1,112 from 1,191, with entries for the coveted public service Pulitzer gold medal falling to 49 from 66 — the lowest level in decades, and about one-third the number of public service entries in 1990. In today's announcement of the board’s selections, to be live-streamed , one winner and two finalists likely will be named in each journalism category. Juries of reporters and editors met earlier in the first round of the two-step Pulitzer selection process, also steeped in secrecy. The award-winning so far does little to create a consensus about what could win in public service. That’s unlike 2003, for example, when The Boston Globe received the year’s Pulitzer gold medal for its celebrated reporting on the Catholic Church cover-up of sexual abuse of young parishioners by priests. To assemble the short list of Pulitzer possibilities for that category — and for investigative, explanatory, feature writing, and local, national and international reporting, as well — I started by examining the selections of three prestigious competitions that have a fair Pulitzer predictive record.

Those are the Goldsmith Awards , Selden Ring Awards and Worth Bingham Prizes . The standouts in those competitions this year were The Associated Press global project “ Seafood from Slaves ,” and the Tampa Bay Times “ Failure Factories ” series, which studied the devastating effects on education in Florida’s Pinellas County when, in effect, racial segregation was largely reinstituted. Because of the state reforms enacted after the stories ran, it also has a Pulitzer public service feel. The Tampa Bay paper, owned by The Poynter Institute, won the $20,000 Bingham prize from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation, and also was listed as a finalist in both the Ring and Goldsmith competitions. It also figured prominently in other contests — winning a George Polk Award for education reporting from Long Island University; an American Society of News Editors award for “local accountability reporting,” and one of the three medals handed out by the Investigative Reporters and Editors . For the AP stories, a team of reporters detailed the shocking use of slave labor in Thai fishing operations that supply a large part of the U.S. seafood market, leading to prosecutions, reforms, and freedom for more than 2,000 people who had been enslaved.

The AP stories won the two richest journalism awards: the $35,000 Ring and $25,000 Goldsmith, offered by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, and the Harvard University Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, respectively. (Pulitzer-winners get $10,000, although the public service Pulitzer is in the form of a gold medal rather than cash). IRE, which also selected the AP’s “Seafood from Slaves” for a medal, gave its third one for “ Insult to Injury ,” a collaboration of ProPublica and National Public Radio that studied how many states had dismantled workers compensation programs, leaving taxpayers with the bill. For breaking news coverage, the Scripps Howard Foundation honored South Carolina’s Charleston Post and Courier (last year’s public service Pulitzer winner ) for its intensive reporting on the massacre of black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Winning several other breaking news awards — including from IRE and ASNE — was the Baltimore Sun for how it covered, in print and in photographs, the case involving the death of Freddie Gray in police custody and ensuing riots.

Broad studies of the extent and nature of police shootings — nationally or on a state level — also drew the attention of award judges. The Polk Awards cited the Washington Post for best national reporting for its exhaustive compilation and review of 2015 shootings by officers, many of which had been unreported. The Guardian U.S. in its report headed “ The Counted ,” also attacked the police-shooting issue, and was named as a Goldsmith finalist. IRE acknowledged a project by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV, “Over the Line: Police Shootings in Georgia,” while the Post and Courier won a second Scripps Howard Award for its “Shots Fired” study of police shootings in its state. Like the Pulitzer board, IRE also seeks out the best work of smaller publications, this year giving The Advocate an award for its prison-management study in a story headlined “ The Louisiana State Penitentiary : Where Inmates Aren’t the Only Scoundrels.” Texas’s Austin American-Statesman also won an IRE award for “ Missed Signs, Fatal Consequences ,” an examination of unreported deaths of children in the state Child Protective Services.

A Scripps Howard environmental reporting award went to that online 2013 Pulitzer-winner, InsideClimate News, for “ Exxon: The Road Not Taken ,” examining how it undercut its own early research into the dangers of climate change. InsideClimate News also was named a Goldsmith finalist for that work, which got wide play elsewhere. And Scripps Howard also presented an investigative award to Buzzfeed News for “Fostering Profits,” about abuses at a for-profit foster care company. Among other winning stories that garnered significant attention during the year, ASNE cited ProPublica and The Marshall Project for nondeadline writing by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, respectively for their project “ An Unbelievable Story of Rape ,” digging into how lax police investigations into rape cases can be. The Scripps Awards also named the USA TODAY Network its public service winner for “ Biolabs in Your Backyard ,” analyzing safety hazards related to dangerous storage of toxins. It’s hard to predict how the Pulitzers will do this year with their expansion of eligibility to among magazines . In 2015, when it first let magazines enter in investigative reporting and feature writing, it named no magazine winners and only one finalist.

This year the Pulitzers expanded the categories accepting magazine entries to international reporting, criticism and editorial cartooning. Pulitzer administrator Pride told Poynter that magazine response in the three newly opened categories “was modest.” I didn’t survey the 2016 National Magazine Award winners for possible candidates. My review of other pre-Pulitzer press competitions, though, showed that few won awards. New York magazine, however, did win a Polk for “ Cosby: The Women, an Unwelcome Sisterhood ,” by Noreen Malone and Jen Kirby, with photographer Amanda Demme. The New York Times — normally a Pulitzer powerhouse, and the winner of three prizes last year — made a relatively modest showing in the early going this award season. It received a Polk for “Beware the Fine Print,” which dug deep into obtuse clauses in consumer and employee contracts. The story, by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery and Robert Gebeloff, also was a finalist for the Goldsmith. And “ Dying Alone ,” N.R. Kleinfeld’s examination of the life and death of a man who perished in his New York apartment, was honored by Scripps for human-interest storytelling.

Likewise, the Los Angeles Times, which won two Pulitzers last year, caused barely a ripple in pre-Pulitzer honors I reviewed, although Carolyn Cole won the Scripps photojournalism award, and it was an ASNE finalist in breaking news for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The Wall Street Journal, which won a 2015 investigative Pulitzer and was a finalist for public service , garnered a Polk for its investigation of research claims made by medical research firm Theranos Inc. Also, “Private Risk,” a project about questionable management practices among technology firms, received a Scripps award. More Pulitzer surprises could come later in this centennial year, as board members at their November meeting review the possible further broadening of the award program’s entry rules. The rise of global reporting collaborations may require the largely-U.S.-based Pulitzers to find new ways to consider projects like the “ Panama Papers ,” led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which will be on the radar for the 2017 prizes.

And some have suggested that the long print-centric prizes must find more ways to reach beyond newspapers and magazines and into broadcast — a realm the Pulitzers have entered only in cases of narrow collaborations between print or online media and television reporters. As the Pulitzer board has become more diverse, the pressure has increased to reflect the homogenization of news as consumers access it — on screens of all sizes, from watch-sized to wall-sized. What to read next Pulitzer Prizes Celebrate 100 Newsworthy Years | Columbia News Pulitzer Prizes Celebrate 100 Newsworthy Years February 16, 2016 Joseph Pulitzer painted by John Singer Sargent; Courtesy Columbia University Archives When newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer contacted Columbia with a notion about founding a journalism school in 1892, the trustees turned him down. Journalism was not quite respectable at the time, and Pulitzer owned the often-sensational New York World, whose muckraking stories and yellow-tinged comics gave rise to the derogatory phrase “yellow journalism.” A decade later Pulitzer tried again, with more specific plans for a journalism school and annual prizes to reward the best work.

“My idea is to recognize that journalism is, or ought to be, one of the great and intellectual professions,” Pulitzer said, according to a 2010 biography by James McGrath Morris. He also proffered a $2 million gift at a time when Columbia’s operating budget was a third of that. The Journalism School opened in 1912, a year after Pulitzer’s death, and the first prizes were awarded in 1916. (Although housed at Columbia, the prizes are run independently from the school.) This year marks the centennial of the prizes, the best known and most highly respected awards in journalism. The Pulitzer Prize board kicked off a yearlong commemoration on Jan. 28 with a party at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., attended by hundreds of prizewinners. More events are planned throughout the year, from multi-day seminars on such topics as social justice and the presidency to smaller “campfire” events in at least 46 states. This year’s awards will be announced in April. “Journalism is changing rapidly, and the Pulitzer Prize board is doing its best to embrace the changes and adapt to them,” said Mike Pride , administrator of the prizes.

“In both journalism and letters and music, the quality of what wins remains high while the diversity of who wins is richer than ever.” The centennial is an opportunity to chart the myriad changes in journalism since 1916. The first prizes went to two newspapers and two books, but Pulitzer was prescient enough to include a provision in his will that allowed the prizes to adapt to changes in culture and technology. Today’s 21 categories include drama, photography, poetry and music. With the new digital century, online newspaper content became eligible in 2006 and online only news organizations in 2009. This year, five prize categories were open to magazines. Whatever the format, the quality of the journalism is what stands out. This photo of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Photo by Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. This iconic picture of Marines raising the American flag after capturing Iwo Jima won the 1945 Pulitzer for breaking news photography. Photo by Joe Rosenthal Rebel soldiers hold their position in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a picture that won the feature photography Pulitzer in 2013.

Photo by Javier Manzano Damon Winter (CC’97) was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his pictures of Barack Obama (CC’83) on the presidential campaign trail. Photo by Damon Winter President John F. Kennedy and former president Dwight D. Eisenhower walk through Camp David together, a photograph that won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. Historians say they were discussing the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Photo by Paul Vathis “It’s one of the special things about Columbia that we’re not only home to the world’s best journalism school, but also to the most iconic prize in journalism, arts and letters,” said University President Lee C. Bollinger , who has been on the Pulitzer Prize board since becoming president of the University in 2002. “It’s a privilege for me to participate in the Pulitzer board’s very thoughtful deliberations aimed at recognizing the commitment to creative excellence and public service. And of course, it’s just a delight to be able to hand out the prizes each year here on campus.” The stories that win can change the course of history.

Consider The Washington Post’s coverage of a break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex that ultimately led to a president’s resignation; or The New York Times’ publication of the secret government history of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers; or The Boston Globe stories on how the local diocese moved pedophile priests from one parish to the next, a scandal that engulfed the Roman Catholic Church and became the subject of the Oscar nominated film Spotlight. All three papers won the Pulitzer for public service. “These kinds of stories offer a panorama of not just journalism’s power from year to year but of U.S. history,” said Roy J. Harris Jr., author of Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism (Columbia University Press). Pulitzer Prize-winning stories can also save lives, change social mores and quell fears. The 2014 prize for public service went to the Charleston, S.C. Post and Courier for stories on how the state’s lax laws on domestic violence led to hundreds of deaths. After the series ran, the legislature drafted reforms to the state’s domestic violence laws.

Breaking standard journalistic practice, The Des Moines Register in 1991 printed the name of a rape victim, at her request, to put a face on an underreported crime. And in 1985, The Denver Post found that most missing children are runaways or involved in custody disputes, not victims of kidnapping or murder. “The stories that win Pulitzers are an early warning system of what’s on people’s minds,” said Andie Tucher , a professor at the journalism school who specializes in the history of journalism. At least six Pulitzers went to stories exposing the Ku Klux Klan. In 1921, the now defunct Boston Post published a hard-hitting series on the financial dealings of a schemer named Charles Ponzi. He was arrested as a result, his name forever a synonym for fraud. Winning stories in the 1950s covered desegregation. “The public service award often goes to smaller newspapers that are covering stories that are terribly important to their communities,” said Tucher.

“It is a way for the Pulitzer board to say, ‘You’re doing what great journalism should do.’” — By Bridget O'Brian Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations | Media | The Guardian The Guardian Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations Pair awarded highest accolade in US journalism, winning Pulitzer prize for public service for stories on NSA surveillance The Guardian revealed the NSA's bulk collection of phone records 10 months ago based on Edward Snowden's leaks. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Monday 14 April 2014 15.01 EDT Last modified on Friday 11 November 2016 09.26 EST Close This article is 2 years old The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden. The award, announced in New York on Monday, comes 10 months after the Guardian published the first report based on the leaks from Snowden , revealing the agency’s bulk collection of US citizens’ phone records.

In the series of articles that ensued, teams of journalists at the Guardian and the Washington Post published the most substantial disclosures of US government secrets since the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam war in 1971. The Pulitzer committee praised the Guardian for its "revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy". Snowden, in a statement, said : "Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognises was work of vital public importance." He said that his actions in leaking the documents that formed the basis of the reporting "would have been meaningless without the dedication, passion, and skill of these newspapers".

The Pulitzers have been bestowed since 1917, at the bequest of the legendary newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer who established the honour in his will as a means of encouraging publicly-spirited journalism. Awards were given in 22 categories this year: the Boston Globe received the Pulitzer for breaking for "exhaustive and empathetic" coverage of the Boston marathon bombing. Journalists in the Globe newsroom observed a period of silence on Monday in memory of the victims, a day before the one-year anniversary of the attack. At the Guardian, the NSA reporting was led by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and film-maker Laura Poitras, and at the Washington Post by Barton Gellman, who also co-operated with Poitras. All four journalists were honoured with a George Polk journalism award last week for their work on the NSA story. Investigative reporter Laura Poitras accepts the George Polk Award alongside Barton Gellman, far left, and Ewen MacAskill. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images The NSA revelations have reverberated around the world and sparked a debate in the US over the balance between national security and personal privacy.

On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection. "We are truly honoured that our journalism has been recognised with the Pulitzer prize," said Alan Rusbridger, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian. "This was a complex story, written, edited and produced by a team of wonderful journalists. We are particularly grateful for our colleagues across the world who supported the Guardian in circumstances which threatened to stifle our reporting. And we share this honour, not only with our colleagues at the Washington Post, but also with Edward Snowden, who risked so much in the cause of the public service which has today been acknowledged by the award of this prestigious prize." Janine Gibson, the editor-in-chief of Guardian US, said: "We're extremely proud and gratified to have been honoured by the Pulitzer board.

It's been an intense, exhaustive and sometimes chilling year working on this story, and we're grateful for the acknowledgement by our peers that the revelations made by Edward Snowden and the work by the journalists involved represent a high achievement in public service." Among the disclosures were: • the program codenamed Prism used by the NSA and its UK counterpart GCHQ to gain back-door entry into the data of nine giant internet companies including Google and Facebook. • the cracking of internet encryption by the NSA and GCHQ that undermined personal security for web users. • NSA s urveillance of phone calls made by 35 world leaders . The coverage of the Snowden leaks presented a particularly thorny issue for the 19-strong panel of journalists, academics and writers who recommend the winners. The stream of disclosures invoked strong and polarised reactions in the US and around the world. In January, Obama said that the debate on the acceptable limits of government surveillance prompted by the articles “will make us stronger”. But other prominent US politicians such as Mike Rogers, Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, have suggested journalism based on Snowden’s leaks was tantamount to dealing in stolen property. Snowden has been charged with three offences in the US.

He is the eighth person to be charged with breaking the 1917 Espionage Act by the Obama administration – more than all the prosecutions brought under previous presidents combined. The Guardian's US operation, headquartered in New York, was incorporated as an American company in 2011 and recognised last year by the Pulitzer board as a US news outlet eligible to be considered for its prizes. Last month Rusbridger was given a special award at the European press awards; earlier this month the Guardian was named newspaper of the year in the UK; and there it has been awarded other prizes for online and investigative journalism in Germany, Spain and the US. The Snowden stories were edited from New York by Gibson, and Guardian US deputy editor Stuart Millar. The UK end of the reporting was led by deputy editor Paul Johnson and investigations editor Nick Hopkins. Others on the team of journalists included Spencer Ackerman, James Ball, David Blishen, Gabriel Dance, Julian Borger, Nick Davies, David Leigh and Dominic Rushe. In Australia the editor was Katharine Viner and the reporter Lenore Taylor.

Among the other Pulitzers, Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia of the Tampa Bay Times won for local reporting for their investigation into the housing blight of the city’s homeless population; and the New York Times’s Tyler Hicks and Josh Haner took the two photography prizes. The Pulitzer for fiction writing went to Donna Tartt for The Goldfinch, while Annie Baker won the prize for drama for her play set in a cinema, The Flick. Become Ocean, a piece commissioned by the Seattle Symphony by John Luther Adams, won the Pulitzer for music. AP, Reuters, New York Times among 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners AP, Reuters, New York Times among 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners By Daniel Trotta and Frank McGurty Share View photos Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.

REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis More By Daniel Trotta and Frank McGurty NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on abuse in the seafood industry that helped free 2,000 slave laborers, and Reuters and The New York Times shared the breaking news photography award for images of the European refugee crisis. The Pulitzer Board, in conferring the most prestigious honors in U.S. journalism and the arts on Monday, also honored the Los Angeles Times for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the massacre by Islamist militants in San Bernardino, California. This year's announcement at New York's Columbia University marked the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzers, which began in 1917 after a bequest from newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The AP's prize-winning "Seafood from Slaves" report was an investigation into the mistreatment of workers in Southeast Asia used to supply seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants. The coverage resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave laborers and sweeping reforms, the board said.

The reporters "found captive slaves, countering industry claims that the problems had been solved," AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll wrote in her nomination letter to the Pulitzer judges. "U.S. customs records show the (slave-peeled) shrimp made its way into the supply chains of major U.S. food stores and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Whole Foods, Dollar General and Petco, along with restaurants such as Red Lobster and Olive Garden," the AP reported in the series of 10 articles. The New York Times, with a record 117 Pulitzer prizes and citations before this year's announcement, added two more in 2016, taking the prize for international reporting in addition to its photography award. The Boston Globe, the Tampa Bay Times and The New Yorker magazine also won two awards each. In total, the board handed out prizes in 21 categories, selected from about 3,000 entries. In the awards for letters, drama and music, the musical "Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda won for best drama.

The Pulitzer board called the Broadway hit "a landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible." Viet Thanh Nguyen won the fiction award for "The Sympathizer," an immigrant story about a "man of two minds" and two countries, Vietnam and the United States. The board awarded the history prize to the T.J. Stiles book, "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America." MIGRANTS AT SEA The Reuters photo coverage of Middle Eastern migrants arriving in Europe was led from Greece by Yannis Behrakis, chief photographer for Greece and Cyprus and the Guardian newspaper's 2015 Agency Photographer of the Year. The team captured a series of images of migrants crowded on flimsy sea craft and their first moments upon reaching Europe. "We showed the world what was going on, and the world cared. It showed that humanity is still alive," Behrakis said. "We made for these unfortunate people’s voice to be heard. Now with a Pulitzer, we feel that our work has been professionally recognized." Some images showed families rushing ashore, flailing away in the water or collapsing on the beach.

Others juxtaposed the rafters at sea with a cruise ship or a leaping dolphin or the setting sun. The Reuters photo staff was named as co-winner for breaking news photography along with Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times, also for their images of the migrant crisis. It was the third Pulitzer for Reuters, a unit of Thomson Reuters, having won for international reporting in 2014 and for breaking news photography in 2008. The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune shared the 2016 prize for investigative reporting. The two Florida newspapers won for collaborative reporting on violence and neglect in the state's mental hospitals. The Tampa Bay Times took a second Pulitzer, with three of its reporters being honored for showing the consequences of a school board turning some county schools in to "failure factories." The prize for national reporting went to the staff of the Washington Post for developing a database on fatal police shootings and those likely to fall victim. Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times won in the international reporting category for her stories on the inhumane treatment of Afghan women.

The Boston Globe's prizes were in the feature photography and commentary categories, while The New Yorker took prizes for criticism and feature writing. (Reporting by Daniel Trotta, Frank McGurty and Daniel Wallis; Editing by Howard Goller) Reblog Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzer Prizes - The New York Times The New York Times Media |Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzer Prizes Search Continue reading the main story Photo The New York Timess Amy Harmon, center, and Walt Bogdanich, right, in the papers newsroom during the announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday. Credit James Estrin/The New York Times The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, the second-most any newspaper has won in a single year, including awards for reporting that helped define much of the national political dialogue last year. The Post won the prestigious public service award for revealing the neglect of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Pulitzer citation named two Post reporters, Dana Priest and Anne Hull, and a photographer, Michel du Cille.

Pulitzers also went to The Post’s Jo Becker and Barton Gellman, who won the national reporting award for documenting the power and secrecy wielded by Vice President Dick Cheney, and to Steve Fainaru, who won the international reporting prize for his examination of private security contractors in Iraq. A Post economics columnist, Steven Pearlstein, won the prize for commentary, Gene Weingarten won the feature writing award for a long article in The Post’s Sunday magazine on a world-famous violinist playing incognito for subway riders, and the paper’s staff won in the breaking news category for its coverage of the mass killing at Virginia Tech. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The New York Times took two awards, including one for Amy Harmon , who won the explanatory journalism award for her reporting on the mixed blessings offered by new world of genetic testing. Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times, won an investigative reporting prize for their articles about counterfeit and toxic drugs from China. Mr. Bogdanich’s Pulitzer Prize is his third. Photo Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. announced the papers six Pulitzer Prizes to his newsroom in April.

Credit Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press The staff of The Chicago Tribune also won an investigative reporting prize for exposing flawed government regulation of toys, car seats and cribs. The Post’s Pulitzer haul may turn out to be something of a valedictory for Leonard Downie Jr., the paper’s executive editor since 1991, who is widely rumored to be considering retiring later this year. Mr. Downie, who will turn 66 in a few weeks, has not sought to quash such talk. The Pulitzer Prize Board’s recognition of The Post marks only the fourth time that a newspaper has won more than three of the 14 journalism prizes in a single year. The New York Times won seven in 2002, The Los Angeles Times won five in 2004, and The Post won four in 2006. The awards are administered by Columbia University. Three of this year’s journalism awards, including both prizes for photography, went to organizations that had never won Pulitzers before. Adrees Latif of Reuters won the prize for breaking news photography, for his pictures of a man fatally wounded in a street demonstration in Myanmar.

Preston Gunnaway of The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire won for feature photography, for chronicling a family coping with fatal illness. Michael Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily won the award for editorial cartooning. It was the first Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper, and the second for Mr. Ramirez, who won in 1994 with The Commercial Appeal of Memphis. Photo This photograph of a Japanese videographer who was fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Breaking News Photography. Credit Adrees Latif/Reuters Mark Feeney, visual arts critic for The Boston Globe, won the prize for criticism. The prize for local reporting went to David Umhoefer of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, for uncovering a local government practice of skirting tax laws to pad employees’ pensions. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The Pulitzer board decided not to award a prize this year for editorial writing. In the arts, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Junot Diaz, a Dominican-born writer, for his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” a tale of a nerdy aspiring science fiction author. Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter.

You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Policy Tracy Letts won the award for drama, for “August: Osage County,” a fiercely funny tragedy about a family’s disintegration. In the history category, Daniel Walker Howe won for “What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.” John Matteson won for biography, for “Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father.” The prize for nonfiction writing went to Saul Friedlander for his book, “The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.” Two prizes were awarded in the poetry category, one to Robert Hass, for “Time and Materials,” and one to Philip Schultz for “Failure.” David Lang won the award for music, for his composition, “The Little Match Girl Passion.” And a special Pulitzer went to Bob Dylan, citing the mark he has made on the culture over decades.

The Pulitzer Prize Winner Who Walked Away From Journalism The Pulitzer Prize Winner Who Walked Away From Journalism By g.burningham On 4/21/15 at 5:25 PM Rob Kuznia, left, celebrates the first Pulitzer for Torrance, California, newspaper the Daily Breeze. Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze Culture Pulitzer Prize Journalism Rob Kuznia, 39, started Monday by getting into his 1989 Honda and driving to the train station, as he always does for his job in public relations at the University of Southern California. At noon, when the Pulitzer Prizes were set to be announced, Kuznia walked the campus, too nervous to sit at his desk. Even after he heard the 12 gongs from a campus clock that signaled the time, his phone didn’t ring. “It felt like it was the clock chiming for my little fantasy,” Kuznia said. “I thought, Well, that was a fun run.” Kuznia was already back at his desk when his phone finally buzzed.

It was Frank Suraci, his former editor at a small Torrance, California, paper, the Daily Breeze , telling him that they had just won the most prestigious award in journalism. The Breeze, which won a local reporting Pulitzer for its series on corruption in the struggling Centinela Valley Union High School District, joined a field of Pulitzer Prize regulars, among them The New York Times (114), The Washington Post (47) and the Los Angeles Times (41). Theirs was the kind of win that can make careers. Which is why it seemed ironic that Kuznia, who shared the victory with Suraci and fellow writer Rebecca Kimitch, had left journalism months earlier. Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week The Daily Breeze won the Scripps Howard Award in Community Journalism for its exposé on corruption in the Centinela Valley Union High School District. From left, Frank Suraci, Rob Kuznia and Rebecca Kimitch. Robert Casillas / Daily Breeze “Print journalism at the local level is a scary place to be when you’re pushing 40,” Kuznia said.

The Breeze’s corruption series got a superintendent fired and restored physical education and summer school programs for students, but its success wasn’t enough to keep him at the paper. Kuznia worked a career path that used to be the industry standard: He started at a small paper in Oregon and made his way up to bigger publications. In 2007, he was fired from the Santa Barbara News-Press for trying to start a union with fellow reporters and soon found himself filling out an application at Starbucks while collecting unemployment. The Daily Breeze announces the good news. The Daily Breeze The Breeze, which Kuznia joined four years ago, was a welcome reentry into journalism. The daily has been in print for almost 100 years and was once known as a “farm team” for its much larger rival, the LA Times. But mediocre pay and newspaper industry uncertainty—plus his longtime girlfriend’s objection to the job’s long hours—eventually convinced Kuznia to leave the paper. “It’s a little draining,” Kuznia says of newspaper work. In August 2014, days after his final story, he joined USC’s Shoah Foundation, which fights genocide worldwide.

Despite his defection, Kuznia encourages young journalists not to give up too soon. “If you really love it, you’ve kind of got to try it,” he says. “This story is a testament to the importance of old-fashioned beat reporting, by reporters who are supported by an institution of professionals.” Toni Sciacqua, managing editor of the Breeze, says she was incredulous when Kuznia gave notice. “A lot of people leave when they’re frustrated, and he was doing the best work of his career.” Sciacqua says the paper’s staff is still taking in all the news. “Morale is pretty good in here today.” Related Stories The Secret Of Success Kuznia says that without small papers, there would be nothing to support investigations like his. After hearing about his win Monday, he says he was “whisked to the newsroom” from USC, where, like a World Series champion, he was doused in champagne. “After that, it was kind of a blur.” It’s too early to say if the industry’s most-sought after prize will push Kuznia back into journalism.

He says he’s very happy with his current job, and there’s been no rush of job offers, at least not yet (although Newsweek mentioned to him it does take freelance pitches). But, as his girlfriend said when she heard, “who can argue with a Pulitzer?” Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the year Kuznia quit. It was 2014.

Question: Which newspaper has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism?
Answer: The New York Times