2015 Pulitzer Winners: Public Service Prize to Charleston, S.C., Paper; Times Wins 3
Source: New York Times
By RAVI SOMAIYAAPRIL 20, 2015
The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., with a staff of 80 and a daily circulation of 85,000, won the most prestigious of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism awarded on Monday for a series on the high number of deaths resulting from domestic abuse in the state.
The series, titled “Till Death Do Us Part,” was awarded the gold medal for public service that went, last year, to The Washington Post and The Guardian for their articles based on National Security Agency documents leaked by the former government contractor Edward J. Snowden. It is the first time in five years that the prize has gone to such a small newspaper.
The New York Times won the prize for investigative reporting, for a series by Eric Lipton on aggressive efforts by lobbyists and lawyers to push state attorneys general to drop investigations, change policies, negotiate favorable settlements or pressure federal regulators to benefit their clients. It shared the prize with The Wall Street Journal, which won its first Pulitzer in recent years for a project that revealed to Americans previously confidential data “on the motivations and practices of their health care providers.”
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Bloomberg News won its first Pulitzer, for explanatory journalism. It went to Zachary R. Mider, for his reporting on how U.S. corporations dodge taxes and get away with it. The Seattle Times won the breaking news award, for its account of a deadly landslide, and for its follow-up reporting.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/business/media/pulitzer-prize-winners-2015.html
The Post and Courier wins Pulitzer Prize for domestic violence series
There is a complete list of winners at the New York Times's site.
ETA: I would have linked to the Post and Courier for the main article, but my browser is not new enough to handle their website's features. It took my several tries to get just the headline.
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