The Pulitzer Prizes — the prizes that represent the highest honor in journalism — are in:
NEW YORK – The Los Angeles Times won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service award for exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at an inner-city hospital. The Wall Street Journal also won two, including one for stories about the plight of cancer survivors.
The Associated Press won for a series of photographs of bloody year-long combat inside Iraqi cities.
The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., won for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the resignation of New Jersey’s governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.
Nigel Jaquiss of the Willamette Week of Portland, Ore., won for investigative reporting for revealing a former governor’s sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
The Boston Globe’s Gareth Cook won for explanatory journalism for detailing the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem-cell research.
The Journal’s Amy Dockser Marcus won for her “masterful” stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors,” the judges said. The paper’s other award went to Joe Morgenstern for movie reviews.
Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times won for national reporting for stories about the corporate coverup of responsibility for fatal accidents at railroad crossings.
Two prizes were awarded for international reporting: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her reporting from Russia and Newsday’s Dele Olojede for his look at Rwanda a decade after its genocidal civil war.
In awarding the public service citation, the judges praised the Times for “its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital.”
There are others listed there as well (go to the link). Romenesko gives you these links to the winners.
Some readers say this blog deserves a Pulitizer Prize — or at least the first two letters.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.