NEW YORK CITY (voa) – The Boston Globe has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its “courageous comprehensive coverage” of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests.
The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times each won three of journalism’s most prestigious awards — the Post for international reporting, commentary and criticism, the Times for national reporting, feature writing and feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prize Board announced the annual awards today (Monday) at Columbia University in New York City.
The Eagle-Tribune newspaper in the U.S. state of New Hampshire won for breaking news reporting, while the the Wall Street Journal received a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting.
Reporter Clifford Levy of The New York Times won the investigative reporting prize for a series on the abuse of mentally ill adults in New York-state regulated homes.
Diana Sugg of The Baltimore Sun won the beat reporting prize for “stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.”
David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer won for editorial cartooning, Cornelia Grumman of the Chicago Tribune for editorial writing, and the Rocky Mountain News for breaking news photography.
In the arts section, Robert Caro won the biography prize for Master of the Senate, the third volume of his book on former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
