2014 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Philipps |
For expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action. |
| John R. Emshwiller |
For their reports and searchable database on the nation\u2019s often overlooked factories and research centers that once produced nuclear weapons and now pose contamination risks. |
| Jeremy Singer-Vine |
For their reports and searchable database on the nation\u2019s often overlooked factories and research centers that once produced nuclear weapons and now pose contamination risks. |
| Jon Hilsenrath |
For his exploration of the Federal Reserve, a powerful but little understood national institution. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jason Szep |
For their courageous reports on the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar that, in efforts to flee the country, often falls victim to predatory human-trafficking networks. |
| Andrew Marshall |
For their courageous reports on the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar that, in efforts to flee the country, often falls victim to predatory human-trafficking networks. |
| Rukmini Maria Callimachi |
For her discovery and fearless exploration of internal documents that shattered myths and deepened understanding of the global terrorist network of al-Qaida. |
| Raja Abdulrahim |
For their vivid coverage of the Syrian civil war, showing at grave personal risk how both sides of the conflict contribute to the bloodshed, fear and corruption that define daily life. |
| Patrick McDonnell |
For their vivid coverage of the Syrian civil war, showing at grave personal risk how both sides of the conflict contribute to the bloodshed, fear and corruption that define daily life. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Scott Farwell |
For his story about a young woman's struggle to live a normal life after years of ghastly child abuse, an examination of human resilience in the face of depravity. |
| Christopher Goffard |
For his account of an ex-police officer\u2019s nine-day killing spree in Southern California, notable for its pacing, character development and rich detail. |
| Mark Johnson |
For his meticulously told tale about a group of first-year medical students in their gross anatomy class and the relationships they develop with one another and the nameless corpse on the table, an account enhanced by multimedia elements. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Cullen |
For his street-wise local columns that capture the spirit of a city, especially after its famed Marathon was devastated by terrorist bombings. |
| Lisa Falkenberg |
For her provocative metro columns written from the perspective of a sixth-generation Texan, often challenging the powerful and giving voice to the voiceless. |
| Stephen Henderson |
For his columns on the financial crisis facing his hometown, written with passion and a stirring sense of place, sparing no one in their critique. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Inga Saffron |
For her criticism of architecture that blends expertise, civic passion and sheer readability into arguments that consistently stimulate and surprise. |
| Mary McNamara |
For her trenchant and witty television criticism, engaging readers through essays and reviews that feature a conversational style and the force of fresh ideas. |
| Jenna Graves |
For her visual arts criticism that, with elegant and vivid description, informs readers about how to look at the complexities of contemporary art and the world in which it\u2019s made. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Siers |
For his thought provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style. |
| David Horsey |
For his wide ranging cartoons that blend skillful caricature with irreverence, causing readers both to laugh and think. |
| Pat Bagley |
For his adroit use of images and words that cut to the core of often emotional issues for his readership. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Josh Haner |
For his moving essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost most of both legs and now is painfully rebuilding his life |
| Lacy Atkins |
For her revealing portrait of an Oakland school's efforts to help African-American boys avoid neighborhood risks and profit from education. |
| Michael Williamson |
For his portfolio of pictures exploring the multi-faceted impact of the nation\u2019s food stamp program on 47 million recipients |
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donna Tartt |
The Goldfinch
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| Philipp Meyer |
The Son
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| Bob Shacochis |
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Annie Baker |
The Flick
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| Madeleine George |
The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
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| Lisa Kron |
Fun Home
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| Jeanine Tesori |
Fun Home
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alan Taylor |
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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| Jacqueline Jones |
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
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| Eric Schlosser |
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Adrian Matejka |
The Big Smoke
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| Morri Creech |
The Sleep of Reason
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| Vijay Seshadri |
3 Sections
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Megan Marshall |
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
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| Leo Damrosch |
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
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| Jonathan Sperber |
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Guardian US
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy. |
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The Washington Post
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security. |
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Newsday
For its use of in-depth reporting and digital tools to expose shootings, beatings and other concealed misconduct by some Long Island police officers, leading to the formation of a grand jury and an official review of police accountability. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Boston Globe
For its exhaustive and empathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the ensuing manhunt that enveloped the city, using photography and a range of digital tools to capture the full impact of the tragedy. |
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The Arizona Republic
For its compelling coverage of a fast-moving wildfire that claimed the lives of 19 firefighters and destroyed more than a hundred homes, using an array of journalistic tools to tell the story. |
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The Washington Post
For its alert, in-depth coverage of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, employing a mix of platforms to tell a developing story with accuracy and sensitivity. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Chris Hamby |
For his reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners stricken with black lung disease, resulting in remedial legislative efforts. |
| Megan Twohey |
For her exposure of an underground Internet marketplace where parents could bypass social welfare regulations and get rid of children they had adopted overseas but no longer wanted, the stories triggering governmental action to curb the practice. |
| Cynthia Hubert |
For their probe of a Las Vegas mental hospital that used commercial buses to \u201Cdump\u201Dmore than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years, reporting that brought an end to the practice and the firing of hospital employees. |
| Phillip Reese |
For their probe of a Las Vegas mental hospital that used commercial buses to \u201Cdump\u201Dmore than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years, reporting that brought an end to the practice and the firing of hospital employees. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eli Saslow |
For his unsettling and nuanced reporting on the prevalence of food stamps in post-recession America, forcing readers to grapple with issues of poverty and dependency. |
| Dennis Overbye |
For his authoritative illumination of the race by two competing teams of 3,000 scientists and technicians over a seven-year period to discover what physicists call the \u201CGod particle\u201D. |
| Les Zaitz |
For chilling narratives that, at personal risk to him and his sources, revealed how lethal Mexican drug cartels infiltrated Oregon and other regions of the country. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tyler Hicks |
For his compelling pictures that showed skill and bravery in documenting the unfolding terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Kenya. |
| John Tlumacki |
For their searing photographs that captured the shock, chaos and heroism after the bloody Boston Marathon bombings. |
| David L. Ryan |
For their searing photographs that captured the shock, chaos and heroism after the bloody Boston Marathon bombings. |
| Goran Tomasevic |
For his sequence of photographs that chronicle two hours of fierce combat on the rebel frontline in Syria\u2019s civil war. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Erik Lukens |
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives. |
| Mark Hester |
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives. |
| Susan Nielsen |
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives. |
| Len Reed |
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives. |
| Nora Simon |
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives. |
| Dante Ramos |
For his evocative editorials urging Boston to become a more modern, around-the-clock city by shedding longtime restrictions and removing bureaucratic obstacles that can sap its vitality. |
| Andie Dominick |
For her diligent editorials challenging Iowa\u2019s arcane licensing laws that regulate occupations ranging from cosmetologists to dentists and often protect practitioners more than the public. |
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dan Fagin |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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| Gary J. Bass |
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
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| Fred Kaplan |
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Luther Adams |
Become Ocean
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| Christopher Cerrone |
Invisible Cities
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| John Adams |
The Gospel According to the Other Mary
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Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Will Hobson |
For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city\u2019s substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms. |
| Michael LaForgia |
For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city\u2019s substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms. |
| Joan Garrett McClane |
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South. |
| Doug Strickland |
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South. |
| Mary Helen Miller |
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South. |
| Todd South |
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South. |
| Rebecca O’Brien |
For their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs of northern New Jersey, profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community. |
| Thomas Mashberg |
For their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs of northern New Jersey, profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Guardian US
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy. |
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The Washington Post
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security. |
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Newsday
For its use of in-depth reporting and digital tools to expose shootings, beatings and other concealed misconduct by some Long Island police officers, leading to the formation of a grand jury and an official review of police accountability. |
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