2016 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Source: Politico
2016 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
By Kelsey Sutton | 04/18/16 03:26 PM EDT
Pulitzer Prize administrator Mike Pride announced the winners of the 2016 prizes at a press conference in Columbia University's Pulitzer Hall on Monday afternoon.
“It was really a robust year for journalism,” Pulitzer Prizes administrator Mike Pride said. “I felt like when it came down to the finalists – and I think the board would agree with me — is that the range of big news in the world was well-represented by the stories that were in the finals for the Pulitzer Prizes.”
“I guess what that means is really, really good work was done with the journalistic challenges of the year,” he added.
Here are the winners in the journalism categories:
Public service: Associated Press
Breaking news reporting: Los Angeles Times staff
Investigative reporting: The Tampa Bay Times' Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Michael Braga
Explanatory reporting: ProPublica's T. Christian Miller and The Marshall Project's Ken Armstrong
Local reporting: Tampa Bay Times' Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner
National reporting: Washington Post staff
International reporting: The New York Times' Alissa Rubin
Feature writing: The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz
Commentary: The Boston Globe's Farah Stockman
Criticism: The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum
Editorial writing: John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers (Charlotte Harbor, Fla.)
Editorial cartooning: The Sacramento Bee's Jack Ohman
Breaking news photography: The New York Times and Thomson Reuters
Feature photography: The Boston Globe's Jessica Rinaldi
Two writers from The New Yorker were awarded Pulitzer Prizes, marking the first time a magazine has been awarded the Pulitzer medals since the Pulitzer Prize committee opened up five categories to magazine journalism two years ago.
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Re: National reporting: Washington Post staff
Post series on police shootings wins Pulitzer Prize for national reporting
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After covering several high-profile incidents involving the killings of civilians by police officers in 2014, Washington Post staff writer Wesley Lowery was surprised to discover that there were no official statistics about such fatalities. So Lowery pitched an idea to his editors: The newspaper, he suggested, should collect the information itself and analyze it for patterns in law enforcement.
The Post soon marshaled an extraordinary team of reporters, editors, researchers, photographers and graphic artists to do just that. The result was a database containing the details of 990 fatal police shootings across the nation in 2015 and a series of articles describing trends in the data. ... On Monday, The Post’s series was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category. The prizes, in their 100th year, are newspaper journalism’s highest honor.
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The police-shootings database — painstakingly assembled by researchers Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins from official and unofficial sources — included more than a dozen details about each incident, including the age and race of the person killed, whether and how the person was armed, and the circumstances that led to the encounter with police. It soon yielded new insights into the use of deadly force by the nation’s police officers.
The data showed, for example, that about one-quarter of those fatally shot had a history of mental illness; that most of those killed were white men (although unarmed African Americans were at vastly higher risk of being shot after routine traffic stops than any other group); and that 55 officers involved in fatal shootings in 2015 had previously been involved in a deadly incident while on duty. ... Another important finding: The vast majority (74 percent) of people shot and killed by police were armed with guns or were killed after attacking police officers or civilians or making direct threats. This finding countered the impression left by several high-profile fatalities that police routinely use excessive force. Staff writer Kimberly Kindy reported many of the major pieces.
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Paul Farhi is The Washington Post's media reporter.
2016 Pulitzer Prizes: A.P. Wins Public Service Award; ‘Hamilton’ Is Honored
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM APRIL 18, 2016
The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for a series that exposed slavery and vicious abuse in the Southeast Asia fishing trade, leading to the release of 2,000 captives and broad reforms in an industry that is a major supplier of seafood to the United States.
The Pulitzers are in their centennial year, and the winners announced by Columbia University reflected in part the changes sweeping the media landscape. The Marshall Project, an online outlet founded 17 months ago, won the explanatory reporting prize for its harrowing account of a botched rape investigation, a collaboration with ProPublica, another digital news organization dedicated to investigative reporting.
One year after magazines became eligible in some Pulitzer categories, The New Yorker received two prizes: for Emily Nussbaum’s television criticism, and for “The Really Big One,” Kathryn Schulz’s ominous article about the potential for a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, which won for feature writing. William Finnegan, a New Yorker staff writer, won the biography award for his memoir, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.”
In an honor that was widely predicted, the musical “Hamilton,” a hip-hop retelling of the founding fathers story, received the prize for drama. The musical’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, reacted joyfully on Twitter, writing: “PULITZER?!”
Finally, hat tip, Joe.My.God, for making me notice that the Pulitzers had been awarded today: Hamilton Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama
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RMS last week that Chris Hayes and his team were nominated for the in-depth work they did on Baltimore. Guess he didn't win it.
Congrats, winners and thank you for continuing in practicing journalism!!
There was no honor so great as to receive a Pullet Surprise:
no Rachel Maddow.
She was the reporter that made that disgusting poisoning a national disgrace...............................
Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
he tells it like it is, just like John Stewart, Samantha Bee, and many others................................
