The award, which is administered by Columbia University, went to a variety of newspapers and was not concentrated in the hands of one or two publications, as was the case in recent years.
And for the first time, a prize was awarded to the statement that does not appear in the catalogue: series online ProPublica "The Wall Street money Machine," which won national reports.
The prize this year included other early notables. The Wall Street Journal won its only Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch bought the paper in 2007. It is for the editorial by Joseph Rago wrote about the debate on the legislation of health. The magazine received the award for international reporting, and public service in 2007.
Carol Guzy, The Washington Post photographer, became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Guzy shared the prize for breaking the photograph of press with two other Post photographers, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, that have been cited for their representation of the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti.
For the first time, the Pulitzer Board, which decides on the winners after recommended that juries in each category, awarded a prize for local reporting of news. Despite a number of drama, it was last new events last year, including the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which mobilized resources to cover media organizations.
The Pulitzer jury did, however, cite as finalists in the category four newspapers: the Chicago Tribune, The Tennessean of Nashville and The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, which were considered a spouse involved for their coverage of the Haiti earthquake.
Pulitzer Prize have been awarded in 13 categories of journalism and 7 arts categories.
The fiction award went to Jennifer Egan for "A tour of the Goon team." Bruce Norris won the award for drama for his play "Clybourne Park." The history prize went to Eric Foner for "" the Fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and American slavery. "" Ron Chernow won in the biography category for "" Washington: a life. "" By Zhou Long, "Madame white snake", won for music.
Kay Ryan was the poetry prize for "" best: New and Selected Poems. "" The general nonfiction prize was awarded to Siddhartha Mukherjee for "" the Emperor of all evil: a biography of Cancer. ""
In the category of public service journalism, the Los Angeles Times won for its coverage of officials of the city of Bell, California, which is enriched with enormous pay packages. Articles made of infamous and tapped Bell in anti-Government effervescence that reached its peak last summer.
Chief Editor of the journal, Russ Stanton, called the report "accountability journalism at its best."
David Leonhardt of The New York Times has won in the category of comment for what the Committee was "his gracious penetration of America complex economic issues." The Times Clifford j. Levy and Ellen Barry won the award for international reporting for "their relentless reports that put a human face on the failing justice in Russia system, remarkably influencing the discussion within the country."
Corporate malfeasance has been a theme for the Awards this year. Series winner of the Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein ProPublica, presentation of dubious business practices that have helped contribute to the economic collapse of the country. The prize for investigative journalism went to Paige St. John The Sarasota Herald-Tribune to expose how home owners in Florida have been left vulnerable by insurance companies that were on precarious financial footing.
In the category of feature writing, Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star - Ledger in Newark won it that said the Council was "deeply pushed history" on the mysterious sinking of a boat fishing for scallops, Lady Mary. Six men drowned.
Not all prices cause tragedies. Journalists from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won for their reporting on how doctors worked to save a young boy struck a mysterious disease that attacked his intestine.
The critic's prize went to Sebastian Smee, the critic for the Boston Globe. Journalists from Chicago Sun-Times, Frank Main, Mark Konkol, and John j. Kim won for the local declaration for their "immersive documentation of violence" in the neighbourhoods of Chicago Mike Keefe of the Denver Post won his drawings that used "style loose, expressive to send strong messages, witty".
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 18, 2011
An earlier version of this article poorly spelled the name of the winner of the Pulitzer fiction Prize: Eagan.
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