The Los Angeles Times won five journalism awards, the most that the newspaper has ever won in a single year and second only to the New York Times in 2002 for the most won in a year by any paper.
The presentations took place at a luncheon at Columbia University in May. They were the 88th presentation of the prizes.
Journalism awards
beat reporting: Daniel Golden, Wall Street Journal, for his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
breaking news reporting: Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California.
commentary: Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald, for his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.
criticism: Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times, for his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations.
editorial cartooning: Matt Davies, Journal News, for his piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style.
editorial writing: William Stall, Los Angeles Times, for his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
international reporting: Anthony Shadid, Washington Post, for his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended.
national reporting: Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries.
public service: New York Times, for the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman that relentlessly examined death and injury among American workers and exposed employers who break basic safety rules. (This was moved by the board from the Investigative Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
The PulitzerPrizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
Since 1917 when the first prizes were awarded, the PulitzerPrize Board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music and photography as subjects.
The very first PulitzerPrizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and in recent times, they are announced each year, in the month of April.
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer travelling fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
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