Pulitzer Prize Winners: Huffington Post, Politico Among First-Time Winners
New Media showed some impressive muscle in this year's Pulitzer Prizes, which honored the Huffington Post and Politico in addition to legacy organizations such the New York Times.
The Huffington Post picked up its first Pulitzer for its ten-part investigative series on wounded veterans, "Beyond the Battlefield."
The award for National Reporting goes to former Time and Los Angeles Times contributor David Wood. It is a sign of institutional legitimacy for a site that has become an online traffic giant, but has been a lightning rod for media criticism for its aggregation policies.
The other major new media winner was Politico's Matt Wuerker, who won for Editorial Cartooning. It is the first Pulitzer for the 5-year old political site.
Online news organizations have only been eligible to receive Pulitzers since 2009.
More established publications such as The New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune also collected honors, but usual suspects like the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times were not among the winners.
The Times won two Pulitzers for International Reporting and Explanatory Reporting. It was the only news organization to win more than one prize.
The Philadelphia Inquirer won the prestigious Public Service prize for its seven-part series, "Assault on Learning," which argued that violence in urban schools was underreported.
Winners in the arts and drama category include Quiara Alegría Hudes' play "Water by the Spoonful," John Lewis Gaddis biography "George F. Kennan: An American Life" and Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection "Life on Mars." In a rare move, the Pulitzer committee did not honor any work of fiction.
Full list of winners:
JOURNALISM
Public Service - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Breaking News Reporting - The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff
Investigative Reporting - Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press
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Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times
Explanatory Reporting - David Kocieniewski of The New York Times
Local Reporting - Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Penn
National Reporting - David Wood of The Huffington Post
International Reporting - Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times
Feature Writing - Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle (Wash.) weekly
Commentary - Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune
Criticism -Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing - No award
Editorial Cartooning - Matt Wuerker of POLITICO
Breaking News Photography - Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse
Feature Photography - Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC
Fiction - No award
Drama - "Water by the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegría Hudes
History - "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," by the late Manning Marable (Viking)
Biography - "George F. Kennan: An American Life," by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry - "Life on Mars" by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction - "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)
Music - "Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts" by Kevin Puts (Aperto Press)
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