The Pulitzer Prizes winners have been announced: Bloomberg News’s Zachary R. Mider was awarded a prize for explanatory reporting on corporate tax dodgers. Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post was awarded a national reporting award for her coverage of security lapses in the Secret Service. The New York Times won an international reporting award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle was given the award for commentary for her columns about grand jury abuses. Mary McNamara, a TV critic for the Los Angeles Times, was awarded a prize for criticism. A list of the all the winners and finalists can be found here. Below is a short list of other books and features that were honored.
Public Service: “Till Death Do Us Part” (The Post and Courier)
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Breaking News Reporting: “Snohomish County Landslide” (The Seattle Times)
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Feature Writing: “Scenes from California’s Dust Bowl” (Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times)
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Investigative Reporting: “Courting Favor” (Eric Lipton, New York Times) and “Medicare Unmasked” (The Wall Street Journal)
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Local Reporting: “Centinela Valley Union High School District Investigation” (Daily Breeze)
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Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
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Nonfiction: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
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Biography: The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, David I. Kertzer
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