2012 Pulitzer PrizeCheck all the winners of 2012 Pulitzer Prize. |
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Pulitzer Prize for History |
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Manning MarableHonored for : Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention |
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction |
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Stephen GreenblattHonored for : The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
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Tracy K. SmithHonored for : Life on Mars |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
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Quiara Alegría HudesHonored for : Water by the Spoonful |
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography |
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John Lewis GaddisHonored for : George F. Kennan: An American Life |
Pulitzer Prize for Music |
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Kevin PutsHonored for : Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts |
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography |
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Massoud Hossaini(For his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber\u2019s attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting |
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Honored for : 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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary |
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Mary Schmich(For her wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
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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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning |
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Matt Wuerker(For his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting |
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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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography |
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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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing |
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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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting |
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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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting |
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Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, 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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting |
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Michael J. Berens, 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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting |
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Sara GanimHonored for : The Patriot-News (For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.) |
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
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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.) |
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service |
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Honored for : 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.) |
