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New York Times Nets Five Pulitzer Prizes
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by Rachel Nixon | April 20, 2009 at 02:25 pm
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The New York Times has won five Pulitzer prizes for its journalism, the second most in the paper's history.
The Florida-based St Petersburg Times also won two awards, one for the fact-checking website Politifact.com.
The Times won the prize for breaking news reporting, for its coverage of the swift disintegration of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career, less than a year and a half after he was elected governor of New York in a landslide.
The Times’s coverage of the war and political struggle in Afghanistan and Pakistan won the prize for international reporting. And a detailed examination by David Barstow of conflicts of interest among the military analysts who help television networks cover the wars in Asia won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting. It was Mr. Barstow’s second Pulitzer.
Holland Cotter of The Times won the prize for criticism, for his coverage of art that spanned continents and millenia. And Damon Winter won for feature photography, for his images of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
The St Petersburg Times staff won the national reporting award for Politifact.com, a fact-checking site set up during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Using "Obama-meter" and "Truth-O-Meter" rating systems, PolitiFact recorded and continues to monitor the progress in fulfilling more than 750 campaign promises made by candidate Barack Obama on his way to the presidency.
2009 was the first year online-only news organisations were eligible for the Pulitzer prize though none reached the finals.
"We sort of feel we won" the Pulitzer for online-only reporting, Times Executive Editor Neil Brown told E&P. "PolitiFact for us was the first product we ever created with the Web-first idea totally in mind."
The Web site was even built outside the newspaper's content management system, he added.
"Items almost never appear in print before the Web, it's almost always the other way around," Brown said. "Sometimes they never make print at all."
The St Petersburg Times' Lane DeGregory also won the Pulitzer for feature writing for "The Girl in the Window", the story of Danielle, a feral child who had been deprived of her humanity through a lack of nurturing.
The Washington Post won in the commentary category for columnist Eugene Robinson's pieces from the presidential campaign trail in 2008.
The Las Vegas Sun won the public service award for its reporting, notably by Alexandra Berzon, on the high rate of construction worker deaths at some of the city’s biggest building sites.
And the Detroit Free Press scored the local reporting Pulitzer for its expose of racy text messages that led to the resignation and jailing of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
A full list of this year's Pulitzer prize winners and finalists can be found on the Pulitzer website.
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at 18:10 on April 20th, 2009
It's great that the NYT tops the Pulitzer prizes. Also, the Politifact.com is a great source.
It's wonderful to read the body of works done by all those who were nominated in all the categories.
at 18:20 on April 20th, 2009
We still have some ways to go before we can equate that.
at 18:52 on April 20th, 2009
NYT is a terrific newspaper! If you want in-depth reporting on nearly any issue in the world, you can bet your bottom dollar that NYT will already have covered it! There is nothing in the UK that can compare with it!
Gerry
at 22:23 on April 20th, 2009