The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and this year's big winners are the New York Times, which won two (for International Reporting on Russia's justice system and for David Leonhardt's commentary), and the LA Times, which also won two (for Public Service on corruption in Bell City for Barbara Davidson's feature photography). The Wall Street Journal received one for Joseph Rago's editorial writing, the Washington Post was honored for breaking news photography after Haiti's earthquake and ProPublica won for national reporting about Wall Street's role in the economic meltdown. The Chicago Sun-Times won for local reporting on Chicago's violence and the Star-Ledger won for its feature writing, a special look at the 2009 sinking of a fishing boat in Cape May.
According to the Star-Ledger, reporter Amy Ellis Nutt's "The Wreck of the Lady Mary," was featured as a "20-page special section in November 2010. Nutt and videographer/graphic artist Andre Malok investigated the mysterious sinking of a fishing boat off the coast of New Jersey in 2009. The pair spent more than seven months reporting the project and, in addition to the newspaper stories, Malok produced a 24-minute documentary." Here's chapter one of the article (there are links to the other parts) and you can see video below:
Here's the full list of 2011 winners:
Journalism
PUBLIC SERVICE - Los Angeles Times
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING - No Award
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING - Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
EXPLANATORY REPORTING - Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
LOCAL REPORTING - Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times
NATIONAL REPORTING - Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING - Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times
FEATURE WRITING - Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
COMMENTARY - David Leonhardt of The New York Times
CRITICISM - Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL WRITING - Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal
EDITORIAL CARTOONING - Mike Keefe of The Denver Post
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY - Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY - Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times
Letters, Drama and Music
FICTION - "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)
DRAMA - "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris
HISTORY - "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)
BIOGRAPHY - "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
POETRY - "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION - "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
MUSIC - "Madame White Snake’" by Zhou Long, premiered on February 26, 2010 by the Boston Opera at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.
