It’s always a fun time of year to see the Pulitzers announced. With the exception of The Wall Street Journal, the list of newspaper winners doesn’t contain any papers I read regularly, but the Des Moines Register made sure to point out that Clark Kauffman was a finalist – nothing like tooting your own horn on the front page (I’ll link to the article if anyone can find it on the Register website). Here is the journalism list:
- PUBLIC SERVICE – Los Angeles Times
- BREAKING NEWS REPORTING – Staff of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
- INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING – Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Ore.
- EXPLANATORY REPORTING – Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe
- BEAT REPORTING – Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal
- NATIONAL REPORTING – Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times
- INTERNATIONAL REPORTING – Two Prizes: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times, Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.
- FEATURE WRITING – Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune
- COMMENTARY – Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
- CRITICISM – Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal
- EDITORIAL WRITING – Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee
- EDITORIAL CARTOONING – Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
- BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY – Associated Press Staff
- FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY – Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle