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Washington Business Journal / Pulitzer PrizesMonday, April 20, 2009, 6:09pm EDT | Modified: Monday, April 20, 2009, 6:14pm
Post columnist Eugene Robinson wins Pulitzer PrizeWashington Business Journal
Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Monday, but the newspaper's lone award represented a much smaller haul than the six it earned a year ago.
Robinson received journalism's top prize for his columns about the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the first African-American to win the nation's top job. Robinson, a former foreign correspondent and assistant managing editor for the paper, also is black.
After winning the award, Robinson told colleagues gathered in the Post newsroom that he was particularly pleased to have won for his coverage of "the biggest political event of my lifetime, and one that has personal meaning for me," according to a story on the Post's Web site.
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This year's other winners included The New York Times, which won five Pulitzers, including one for breaking news coverage for the prosititution scandal surrounding former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. The Las Vegas Sun won the public service award, and the Los Angeles Times won for explanatory reporting.
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For a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
Complete Pulitzer Prizes:2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists
Announced at 3:00 p.m., Monday, April 20, 2009 at Columbia University
Click here for finalists, jurors, bios and photos of winners,
winning photos and cartoons, and links to winning stories
JOURNALISM:
Public Service - Las Vegas Sun
Breaking News Reporting - The New York Times Staff
Investigative Reporting - David Barstow of The New York Times
Explanatory Reporting - Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times
Local Reporting -
Detroit Free Press Staff
and
Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ
National Reporting - St. Petersburg Times Staff
International Reporting - The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing - Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times
Commentary - Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post
Criticism - Holland Cotter of The New York Times
Editorial Writing - Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY
Editorial Cartooning - Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune
Breaking News Photography - Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald
Feature Photography - Damon Winter of The New York Times
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC:
Fiction - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama - Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Poetry - The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Music - Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes) rizes 2009:
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