Dear Readers,
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. The complete
winner list is given below:
Pulitzer Prize 2016- Complete List of Winner
Award Category (Journalism)
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Winner
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Public Service
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Associated Press
for an investigation of severe labour abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants
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Breaking News Reporting
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Los Angeles Times Staff
for exceptional reporting, including both local and global perspectives, on the shooting in San Bernardino and the terror investigation
that followed
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Investigative Reporting
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Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
for a stellar example of collaborative reporting by two news organizations that revealed escalating violence and neglect in Florida mental
hospitals and laid the blame at the door of state official
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Explanatory Reporting
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T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project
for a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the
traumatic effects on its victims
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Local Reporting
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Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of Tampa Bay Times
for exposing a local school board's culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic consequences for the
community
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National Reporting
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The Washington Post Staff
for its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who
the victims are most likely to be
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International Reporting
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Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times
for thoroughly reported and movingly written accounts giving voice to Afghan women who were forced to endure unspeakable cruelties
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Feature Writing
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Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker
for an elegant scientific narrative of the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line, a masterwork of environmental reporting and writing
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Commentary
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Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe
for extensively reported columns that probe the legacy of busing in Boston and its effect on education in the city with a clear eye on
ongoing racial contradictions
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Criticism
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Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker
for television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing
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Editorial Writing
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John Hackworth and Brian Gleason of Sun Newspapers, Charlotte Harbor, FL
for fierce, indignant editorials that demanded truth and change after the deadly assault of an inmate by corrections officers
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Editorial Cartooning
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Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee
for cartoons that convey wry, rueful perspectives through sophisticated style that combines bold line work with subtle colours and textures
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Breaking News Photography
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Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times
for photographs that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the struggle of host countries to take them in
Photography Staff of Thomson Reuters
for gripping photographs, each with its own voice, that follow migrant refugees hundreds of miles across uncertain boundaries to unknown
destinations
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Feature Photography
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Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe
for the raw and revealing photographic story of a boy who strives to find his footing after abuse by those he trusted
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Award Category (Letters, Drama & Music)
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Winners
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Fiction
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The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
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Drama
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Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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History
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Biography or Autobiography
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan (Penguin Press)
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Poetry
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Ozone Journal, by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press)
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General Nonfiction
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick (Doubleday)
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Music
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In for a Penny, In for a Pound, by Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings)
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Thanks.