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Pulitzer
prizes
·
On April 7,
2008 The
Washington
Post
newspaper
won Pulitzer
Prize in
five
categories
including
for Public
Service
Journalism -
for exposing
the poor
hospital
treatment of
US soldiers
returning
home after
being
wounded in
Iraq and
Afghanistan.
·
Pulitzer
prizes are
awarded
annually by
Columbia
University
on the
recommendation
of an
18-member
board.
·
The prizes
recognise
achievements
in
journalism,
letters,
drama and
music.
·
The
Washington
Post won a
breaking
news award
for its
coverage of
last year's
Virginia
Tech
massacre,
where 32
students and
staff were
killed in a
gun rampage
at a US
university.
·
It was
awarded four
other prizes
for national
reporting,
international
reporting,
feature
writing and
commentary.
·
The New York
Times won
awards
in the
investigative
reporting
and
explanatory
reporting
categories.
·
Each
Pulitzer
carries a
$10,000 cash
prize,
except for
the most
prestigious
- the Public
Service
award -
which wins
the
recipient
newspaper a
gold medal.
·
Named after
newspaper
publisher
Joseph
Pulitzer,
who died in
1911,
the
accolades
were first
awarded in
1917, and
2008's
awards are
the 92nd of
their kind.
·
The
Washington
Post is the
largest
newspaper in
Washington,
D.C. It is
also one of
the city's
oldest
papers,
having been
founded in
1877.
·
Perhaps the
most notable
incident in
the Post's
history was
when, in the
early 1970s,
reporters
Bob Woodward
and Carl
Bernstein
began the
media's
investigation
of
Watergate.
·
This
contributed
greatly to
the
resignation
of President
Richard
Nixon.
·
The Post is
generally
regarded
among the
leading
daily
American
newspapers,
along with
The New York
Times, which
is known for
its general
reporting
and
international
coverage,
and The Wall
Street
Journal,
which is
known for
its
financial
reporting.
·
The Post has
distinguished
itself
through its
political
reporting on
the workings
of the White
House,
Congress,
and other
aspects of
the U.S.
government.
·
Unlike the
Times and
the Journal,
however, it
does not
currently
print a
daily
national
edition for
distribution
away from
the East
Coast. |
