2012 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Manning Marable |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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| Anne F. Hyde |
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
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| Anthony Summers |
The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
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| Robbyn Swan |
The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
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| Richard White |
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stephen Greenblatt |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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| Diane Ackerman |
One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
A resilient author\u2019s account of caring for a stricken husband, sharing fears and insights as she explores neurology and ponders the gift of words. |
| Mara Hvistendahl |
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
An evocative, deeply researched book probing the causes and effects of a global imbalance in the gender ratio. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tracy K. Smith |
Life on Mars
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| Forrest Gander |
Core Samples from the World
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| Ron Padgett |
How Long
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Quiara Alegría Hudes |
Water by the Spoonful
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| Jon Robin Baitz |
Other Desert Cities
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| Stephen Karam |
Sons of the Prophet
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Lewis Gaddis |
George F. Kennan: An American Life
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| Mary Gabriel |
Love and Capital
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| Manning Marable |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Puts |
Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts
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| Tod Machover |
Death and the Powers
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| Andrew Norman |
The Companion Guide to Rome
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Massoud Hossaini |
For his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber\u2019s attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul. |
| Carolyn Cole |
For their illumination of epic disasters in Japan, documenting the brutality of nature as well as the durability of the human spirit. |
| Brian vander Brug |
For their illumination of epic disasters in Japan, documenting the brutality of nature as well as the durability of the human spirit. |
| John Moore |
For their brave coverage of revolutionary protests known as the Arab Spring, capturing the chaos and exuberance as ordinary people glimpsed new possibilities. |
| Peter Macdiarmid |
For their brave coverage of revolutionary protests known as the Arab Spring, capturing the chaos and exuberance as ordinary people glimpsed new possibilities. |
| Chris Hondros |
For their brave coverage of revolutionary protests known as the Arab Spring, capturing the chaos and exuberance as ordinary people glimpsed new possibilities. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Capital Newspapers |
Wisconsin State Journal
For its energetic coverage of 27 days of around-the-clock protests in the State Capitol over collective bargaining rights, using an array of journalistic tools to capture one breaking development after another. |
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The Tuscaloosa News
For its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado, using social media as well as traditional reporting to provide real-time updates, help locate missing people and produce in-depth print accounts even after power disruption forced the paper to publish at another plant 50 miles away. |
| Gannett Company |
For its comprehensive coverage of the mass shooting that killed six and wounded 13, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an exemplary use of journalistic tools, from Twitter to video to written reports and features, to tell an unfolding story. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mary Schmich |
For her wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his valorous columns that transport readers into dangerous international scenes, from Egypt to Kenya to Cambodia, often focusing on the disenfranchised and always providing insight. |
| Steve Lopez |
For his engaging commentary on death and dying, marked by pieces on his own father\u2019s rapid physical and mental decline, that stir readers to address end-of-life questions. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Wesley Morris |
For his smart, inventive film criticism, distinguished by pinpoint prose and an easy traverse between the art house and the big-screen box office. |
| Philip Kennicott |
For his ambitious and insightful cultural criticism, taking on topical events from the uprisings in Egypt to the dedication of the Ground Zero memorial, causing readers to reflect on the world around them. |
| Tobi Tobias |
For work that reveals passion as well as deep historical knowledge of dance, her well-expressed arguments coming from the heart as well as the head. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matt Wuerker |
For his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington. |
| Matt Bors |
For his pungent work outside the traditional style of American cartooning. |
| Jack Ohman |
For his clever daily cartoons and a distinctive Sunday panel on local issues in which his reporting was as important as his artistic execution. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Kocieniewski |
For his lucid series that penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation\u2019s wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes. |
| Tom Frank |
USA Today
For his sharply focused exploration of inflated pensions for state and local employees, enhancing stories with graphic material to show how state legislators pump up retirement benefits in creative but unconscionable ways. |
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The Wall Street Journal
For its tenacious exploration of how personal information is harvested from the cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public officials in a largely unmonitored realm of modern life. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Craig F. Walker |
For his compassionate chronicle of an honorably discharged veteran, home from Iraq and struggling with a severe case of post-traumatic stress, images that enable viewers to better grasp a national issue. |
| David Guttenfelder |
For their extraordinary portrayal of daily life inside the reclusive nation of North Korea, including scenes after the death of Kim Jong Il. |
| Ng Han Guan |
For their extraordinary portrayal of daily life inside the reclusive nation of North Korea, including scenes after the death of Kim Jong Il. |
| Rafael Wober |
For their extraordinary portrayal of daily life inside the reclusive nation of North Korea, including scenes after the death of Kim Jong Il. |
| Francine Orr |
For her poignant portrait of the suffering by desperate families and misunderstood children who live with autism. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eli Sanders |
For his haunting story of a woman who survived a brutal attack that took the life of her partner, using the woman\u2019s brave courtroom testimony and the details of the crime to construct a moving narrative. |
| John Branch |
For his deeply reported story of Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player valued for his brawling, whose tragic story shed light on a popular sport\u2019s disturbing embrace of potentially brain-damaging violence. |
| Corinne Reilly |
For her inspiring stories that bring the reader side-by-side with the medical professionals seeking to save the lives of gravely injured American soldiers at a combat hospital in Afghanistan. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jeffrey Gettleman |
For his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa, a neglected but increasingly strategic part of the world. |
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The New York Times
For its powerful exploration of serious mistakes concealed by authorities in Japan after a tsunami and earthquake devastated the nation, and caused a nuclear disaster. |
| Thomson-Reuters Corporation |
For its well-crafted reports on the momentous revolution in Libya that went beyond battlefield dispatches to tell the wider story of discontent, conflict and the role of outside powers. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matt Apuzzo |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Adam Goldman |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Eileen Sullivan |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Chris Hawley |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Michael J. Berens |
For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings. |
| Ken Armstrong |
For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings. |
| Gary Marx |
For their exposure of a neglectful state justice system that allowed dozens of brutal criminals to evade punishment by fleeing the country, sparking moves for corrective change. |
| David Jackson |
For their exposure of a neglectful state justice system that allowed dozens of brutal criminals to evade punishment by fleeing the country, sparking moves for corrective change. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matt Apuzzo |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Adam Goldman |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Eileen Sullivan |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Chris Hawley |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department\u2019s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
| Michael J. Berens |
For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings. |
| Ken Armstrong |
For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings. |
| Gary Marx |
For their exposure of a neglectful state justice system that allowed dozens of brutal criminals to evade punishment by fleeing the country, sparking moves for corrective change. |
| David Jackson |
For their exposure of a neglectful state justice system that allowed dozens of brutal criminals to evade punishment by fleeing the country, sparking moves for corrective change. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling |
For their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions in federally-supported housing in a small rural community that, within hours, triggered a state investigation. |
| Sara Ganim |
For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky. |
| The Patriot-News |
For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky. |
| California Watch |
For its rigorous probe of deficient earthquake protection in the construction of public schools across the state, telling the story with words, graphics, videos and other tools. |
| A.M. Sheehan |
For their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions in federally-supported housing in a small rural community that, within hours, triggered a state investigation. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Wood |
For his riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan during a decade of war. |
| Jeff Donn |
For his diligent exposure of federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards as aging nuclear power plants exceed their original life spans, with interactive data and videos used to drive home the findings. |
| Jessica Silver-Greenberg |
For her compelling examination of aggressive debt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable but largely unseen by the public, vexed borrowers hard hit by the nation\u2019s financial crisis. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
For its exploration of pervasive violence in the city\u2019s schools, using powerful print narratives and videos to illuminate crimes committed by children against children and to stir reforms to improve safety for teachers and students. |
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The Miami Herald
For its exposure of deadly abuses and lax state oversight in Florida\u2019s assisted-living facilities for the elderly and mentally ill that resulted in the closure of dangerous homes, punishment of violators and creation of tougher laws and regulations. |
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The New York Times
For the work of Danny Hakim and Russ Buettner that revealed rapes, beatings and more than 1,200 unexplained deaths over the past decade of developmentally disabled people in New York State group homes, leading to removal of two top officials, movement to fire 130 employees and passage of remedial laws. |
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