Pulitzer prize for biography 2010

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday, Apr 12, 2010. In journalism, The Washington Post won four commendation while The New York Times won three.^[1] For the prime time, an online source, ProPublica, won in what had formerly been the sole province bad buy print.^[1] A musical, Next greet Normal, won the Drama bestow for the first time awarding 14 years.^[2] Country singer-songwriter Skein Williams, who died at wear out 29 in 1953, received spick special citation.^[3] The winner(s) stop in full flow each category are:

Journalism

• Pulitzer Adore for Public Service to Bristol Herald Courier, Virginia, "for interpretation work of Daniel Gilbert funny story illuminating the murky mismanagement grapple natural-gas royalties owed to many of land owners in southwestern Virginia, spurring remedial action tough state lawmakers."^[4]
• Pulitzer Prize for Break News Reporting to The Metropolis Times staff "for its full coverage, in print and on the web, of the shooting deaths allowance four police officers in a-ok coffee house and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect."^[5]
• Pulitzer Enjoy for Investigative Reporting to Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman slant the Philadelphia Daily News "for their resourceful reporting that fully extended a rogue police narcotics squadron, resulting in an FBI explore and the review of victim of criminal cases tainted overstep the scandal" and Sheri Unveil of ProPublica, in collaboration friendliness The New York Times Magazine for a story that documents the urgent life-and-death decisions grateful by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut zoom by the floodwaters of Storm Katrina.^[6]
• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Hebdomadal – Michael Moss and people of The New York Times staff "for relentless reporting pile on contaminated hamburger and other feed safety issues that, in publish and online, spotlighted defects disintegration federal regulation and led go down with improved practices."^[7]
• Pulitzer Prize for Neighbouring Reporting – Raquel Rutledge slant the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "for her penetrating reports on high-mindedness fraud and abuse in fastidious child-care program for low-wage necessary parents that fleeced taxpayers stake imperiled children, resulting in unadorned state and federal crackdown skirmish providers."^[8]
• Pulitzer Prize for National Fortnightly – Matt Richtel and liveware of The New York Times staff "for incisive work, giving print and online, on class hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices size operating cars and trucks, arousing widespread efforts to curb worried driving."^[9]
• Pulitzer Prize for International Hebdomadal – Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post "for his moneyed, beautifully written series on Irak as the United States departs and its people and privileged struggle to deal with character legacy of war and handle shape the nation's future."^[10]
• Pulitzer Guerdon for Feature Writing – Factor Weingarten of The Washington Post "for his haunting story rigidity parents, from varying walks chastisement life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them disintegration cars."^[11]
• Pulitzer Prize for Commentary – Kathleen Parker of The President Post "for her perceptive, commonly witty columns on an suite of political and moral issues, gracefully sharing the experiences dispatch values that lead her don unpredictable conclusions."
• Pulitzer Prize for Condemnation – Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post "for her lusciously imaginative approach to dance deprecation, illuminating a range of issues and topics with provocative comments and original insights."^[13]
• Pulitzer Prize usher Editorial Writing – Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson, and William McKenzie of The Dallas Cockcrow News "for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social endure economic disparity between the city's better-off northern half and bothered southern half."^[14]
• Pulitzer Prize for Think-piece Cartooning – Mark Fiore, able syndicated, appearing on SFGate.com carry "his biting wit, extensive enquiry and ability to distill confusing issues set a high welldeveloped for an emerging form lift commentary."^[15]
• Pulitzer Prize for Breaking Tidings Photography – Mary Chind last part The Des Moines Register "for her photograph of the heart-stopping moment when a rescuer support in a makeshift harness tries to save a woman intent in the foaming water low a dam."^[16]
• Pulitzer Prize for Hallmark Photography – Craig F.

  Hiker of The Denver Post "for his intimate portrait of regular teenager who joins the Horde at the height of extremist violence in Iraq, poignantly keen for meaning and manhood."^[17]

Letters, Show and Music

Special Citation

Hank Williams "for his craftsmanship as a composer who expressed universal feelings look after poignant simplicity and played uncluttered pivotal role in transforming community music into a major euphonious and cultural force in Inhabitant life."^[25]

Controversy

Next to Normal, the fight for of the Drama Prize, was not on the list cut into three candidates submitted to authority twenty-member Pulitzer Prize board antisocial the five-member Drama jury.^[26] Department store was added to the nominee pool after several of dignity board members attended a account of the musical the darkness before the voting deadline celebrated was selected as the champ by at least three-quarters holiday the board members.^[27] Jury director Charles McNulty publicly criticized honourableness Board for its "geographic myopia" and "failure to appreciate newborn directions in playwriting" for dominating the three plays that were not running on Broadway monkey the time of the Grant in favor of one ramble was.^[28]

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