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The Tuscaloosa News won in the breaking news category for its coverage of the tornado that devastated Alabama city last year. Twitter did not exist when The Tuscaloosa News, in Alabama, won its first Pulitzer, in 1957. But social media was essential to the coverage of a deadly tornado that has brought the paper its second award. More than 130 Twitter messages by reporters chronicled the storm’s path from 10 a.m. on April 27, 2011, to 6 p.m. the next day, when phone lines were down, power was out and the paper had to publish at a plant 50 miles away. “The tornado demonstrated to some skeptics among the news staff that there is a real need for this,” Katherine Lee, the city editor, said in an interview. “For a lot of our readers, this was the news they were getting.”
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Associated Press. The Seattle Times
One of the oldest American news outlets, the 166-year-old Associated Press, took one of two investigative reporting prizes for its reporting on the New York Police Department’s secret surveillance program that focused largely on Muslim neighborhoods after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The other investigative prize went to The Seattle Times for its reporting on a Washington State governmental body that put patients on methadone. Mr. Berens, 53, and Mr. Armstrong, 49, were cited for a three-part series, “Methadone and the Politics of Pain,” which examined the practice of shifting lower-income patients in Washington State to methadone as a cheaper, but riskier, treatment for pain.
EXPLANATORY REPORTING: David Kocieniewski, The New York Times
David Kocieniewski, 49, a business reporter for The New York Times, won the prize for explanatory journalism for his series “But Nobody Pays That,” on tax avoid ance. His reporting uncovered a lot of tax loopholes which large enterprises afforded. Mr. Kocieniewski’s editor on the series, Winnie O’Kelley, said “the lead story was about something that didn’t happen. G.E. didn’t pay taxes.”
LOCAL REPORTING: Sara Ganim and Members of the Staff, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg.
The winning journalism articles this year covered many of the biggest news topics of 2011, including an award to Sara Ganim, 24, and The Patriot-News staff in Harrisburg, Pa., for local reporting on the Penn State sexual abuse scandal.
Ms. Ganim, 24, one of the youngest Pulitzer winners in history, reported in March 2011 that the former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was under investigation for alleged sexual abuse. In November, Mr. Sandusky was arrested and charged. The Pulitzer judges credited Ms. Ganim and unnamed other staff members for “courageously revealing and skillfully covering” the scandal. In a statement, the editor of the newspaper, David Newhouse, said “This was a case of a reporter doing her job.”
NATIONAL REPORTING: David Wood, The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, started in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and Andrew Breitbart, among others, won the national reporting prize for a series about severely wounded veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq written by a longtime war correspondent, David Wood. Called “Beyond the Battlefield,” Mr. Wood’s work first appeared as a 10-part series online and was later expanded into an e-book.
Mr. Wood’s series represented the second time that a solely Internet-published entry was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first Pulitzer for the six-year-old Huffington Post and the first too for Mr. Wood, 66, a staff correspondent who has covered foreign conflicts and national security for four decades.
Shortly after The Huffington Post’s award was announced, the Web site’s editorial director, Howard Fineman, sent a celebratory e-mail to dozens of his colleagues in the news media. “His profound series on wounded vets was a very important event for the vets themselves, but also for online journalism,” Mr. Fineman wrote of Mr. Wood and his work. The founder of The Post, Arianna Huffington, called the prize a very emotional moment: “It’s the culmination of my dream about building a newsroom where the best kind of journalism can thrive. ”
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
The Pulitzer board praised Mr. Gettleman, 40, for his coverage of famine and conflict in East Africa, which he carried out “often at personal peril (risk).” Mr. Gettleman nominated himself for the award, and he beat out other Times reporters nominated for their coverage of the Japanese tsunami. Mr. Gettleman, who first visited Africa when he was 18, has worked as the East Africa bureau chief for The Times for the past five years. In one story, he wrote about the world’s largest relief camp in Kenya, describing the pediatric ward in the Dagahaley section as “a fluorescent-lighted purgatory.”
FEATURE WRITING: Eli Sanders, The Stranger, Seattle
Eli Sanders, a reporter at The Stranger, a weekly based in Seattle, won in the category of feature writing. The Pulitzer committee singled out Mr. Sanders, 34, for his story of a woman who was the victim of a home invasion and rape that left her partner dead. Mr. Sanders’s coverage in The Stranger about the resulting trial was so interesting or exciting that the partner who survived the attack and had remained unidentified came forward and shared her identity. Mr. Sanders, who graduated from Columbia University, has worked for The Stranger for nearly seven years as a reporter and editor. This is the paper’s first Pulitzer Prize. (unidentified person or thing is one that you do not know the name of)
Mary Schmich, The Chicago Tribune
Ms. Schmich, 58, was recognized for her series of columns capturing the vibrant urban culture of Chicago. A columnist for two decades, Ms. Schmich covered a broad variety of topics, including the conviction of Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor, and her own sister’s struggles with mental and personality disorders. The oldest of eight children, Ms. Schmich attended journalism school at Stanford but dropped out to take a job at a paper in Palo Alto.
EDITORIAL CARTOONING: Matt Wuerker, Politico
Politico, started by two veterans of The Washington Post, publishes a daily newspaper but is best known for its five-year-old Web site. The award honoring Mr. Wuerker’s cartoons was the first for Politico. Mr. Wuerker, 55, depicts dysfunction in Washington and highlights sharp political divides between parties. “I work with old media — pen and ink on paper— same as a cartoonist in the mid-1800s,” Mr. Wuerker said in a telephone interview.
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: CRAIG F. WALKER, The Denver Post
Iraq war veterans’ struggling to adjust to life back home was also a winning topic for Craig F. Walker, whose feature photographs won for The Denver Post. In his series “ Welcome Home,” Mr. Walker features Brian Scott Ostrom who was in a painful situation for a long time after post-traumatic stress disorder when he served in Iraq. Mr. Walker, 45, joined The Post in 1998 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for his photo essay about a teenage soldier.
MASSOUD HOSSAINI, Agence France-Presse
Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse won the top prize for breaking-news photography for a photo of that showed a young girl after a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Hossaini, 30, was at a shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 6 when a bomb went off. Tarana Akbari, 12, dressed in green, was surrounded by the dead and wounded, including seven members of her own family.
Vocabulary:
shrine = a place that is connected with a holy event or holy person, and that people visit to pray
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