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| The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including two awards for its reporting on the actions of companies like Apple and Wal-Mart overseas, and another for an examination of the hidden wealth of the Chinese premier’s family. | The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including two awards for its reporting on the actions of companies like Apple and Wal-Mart overseas, and another for an examination of the hidden wealth of the Chinese premier’s family. |
| In a sign of the changing news business, an independent nonprofit, InsideClimate News, won the prize for national reporting for its coverage of dangers posed by oil pipelines. | In a sign of the changing news business, an independent nonprofit, InsideClimate News, won the prize for national reporting for its coverage of dangers posed by oil pipelines. |
| The fiction prize, which was not awarded last year, went this year to Adam Johnson for “The Orphan Master’s Son.” The prize for general nonfiction was awarded to "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America,” by Gilbert King. | |
| The Star Tribune in Minneapolis won two Pulitzers, one for local reporting on the rise in infant deaths at badly regulated day care centers and another for editorial cartooning by Steve Sacks. The Wall Street Journal won one Pulitzer Prize for Bret Stephens’s commentary on politics and American foreign policy. | |
| The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for Philip Kennicott’s criticism of art and the social forces that underlie it, including an examination of the allure of violence and misfortune in an essay after the Newtown school shootings called “Why Do We Stare?” | |
| The fourth award for The Times went to John Branch for his feature on a fatal avalanche in the Cascade Mountains in Washington State that, the Pulitzer committee noted, was “enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements” including extensive video, animation and graphics. | |
| The Denver Post won in the breaking news category for its coverage of the theater shootings last summer in Aurora, Colo. The Pulitzer committee recognized how The Post’s reporting staff used social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and video to “both to capture a breaking story and provide context.” Notably, one of the finalists in the same category was the staff of The Hartford Courant for its coverage of the Newtown massacre. | |
| The Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won in the public service category for its reporting on how off-duty police officers were often speeders who endangered the lives of residents. |