The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, with The New York Times taking five awards and the Las Vegas Sun winning the public service award.
The New York Times won five Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, the second-most in its history, for work on subjects as varied as America’s wars in Asia, the sudden downfall of a political titan, art from ancient to modern and a history-making presidential campaign.
Patrick Farrell, a photographer for The Miami Herald, and Steve Breen, a cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, also won OPC awards this year.
The prestigious prize for public service went to The Las Vegas Sun for its exploration of a large number of construction worker deaths at some of that city’s biggest building sites.
The St. Petersburg Times won two awards, including one in the national reporting category, for its PolitiFact project, which checks the truth of political claims. The other was won by Lane DeGregory, for feature writing. The award for PolitiFact broke new ground, in that most of the work was published on PolitiFact.com, but not in print. This was the first year that the Pulitzer committee accepted submissions of work that appeared primarily online.
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