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2005 Pulitzer Prize

Awards for journalism and related fields


Awards for journalism and related fields

The Pulitzer Prizes for 2005 were announced on April 4, 2005:[[Image:Gen pulitzer.jpg|thumb|The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism]]

Journalism

  • Beat reporting: Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal for her "stories about patients, families and physicians [of the] world of cancer survivors".
  • Breaking news photography: Associated Press staff Murad Sezer, Khalid Mohammed
  • Breaking news reporting: Staff of The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, for "coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover".
  • Commentary: Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
  • Criticism: Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal
  • Explanatory reporting: Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe for explaining "the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research".
  • Editorial cartooning: Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
  • Editorial writing: Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee
  • Feature photography: Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle
  • Feature writing: Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune for her "account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois".
  • International reporting:
    • Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her "coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work".
    • Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, New York, for his look at Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan genocide.
  • Investigative reporting: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon, "for his investigation exposing a former governor's long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl".
  • National reporting: Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times for his "stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings".
  • Public service: Los Angeles Times, for "exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital".

Letters and drama

  • Biography or Autobiography
    • de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Drama
    • Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley (TCG)
  • Fiction
    • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
  • General Nonfiction
    • Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)
  • History
    • Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)
  • Music
    • Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky (Theodore Presser Company)
  • Poetry
    • Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)

References

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