The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon, overshadowed of course by the Boston Marathon explosions. Many of the usual suspects won, including the New York Times. But the National Reporting award was won by InsideClimateNews.com, a little known Brooklyn based website ranked at around 64,000 on alexa.com. Congrats to the trio of reporters there. The drama prize went to “Disgraced” by Ayad Akhtar, which came from Chicago’s ACT Theater and opened Lincoln Center’s theater season last September.
Journalism
PUBLIC SERVICE – Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING – The Denver Post Staff
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING – David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab of The New York Times
EXPLANATORY REPORTING – The New York Times Staff
LOCAL REPORTING – Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis
NATIONAL REPORTING – Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer of InsideClimate News, Brooklyn, NY
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING – David Barboza of The New York Times
FEATURE WRITING – John Branch of The New York Times
COMMENTARY – Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal
CRITICISM – Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post
EDITORIAL WRITING – Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, FL
EDITORIAL CARTOONING – Steve Sack of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY – Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen of the Associated Press
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY – Javier Manzano, free-lance photographer, Agence France-Presse
Letters, Drama and Music
FICTION – “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson
DRAMA – “Disgraced” by Ayad Akhtar
HISTORY – “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam” by Fredrik Logevall (Random House),
BIOGRAPHY – “The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo” by Tom Reiss (Crown)
POETRY – “Stag’s Leap” by Sharon Olds
GENERAL NONFICTION – “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America” by Gilbert King (Harper)
MUSIC – “Partita for 8 Voices” by Caroline Shaw, recording released on October 30, 2012 (New Amsterdam Records)
