New York – The Wall Street Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service award for its coverage of the stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America in 2006.
The Journal, the only multiple winner this year, also won in international reporting for what the judges praised as “sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China’s booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution.”
The staff of The (Portland) Oregonian won for breaking news for its reporting on a California family that disappeared in the mountains during a blizzard. The Denver Post’s coverage of Colorado’s year-end blizzards was one of two other finalists in that category.
The Associated Press captured one for breaking news photography for a picture of a Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank.
In the arts categories, the prize for general nonfiction was awarded to Lawrence Wright for his book, “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.”
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff won the Pulitzer Prize for history for “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation.” The book traces how the civil rights struggle was covered by the press, breaking down prejudices within journalism and as well as in American society.
Cormac McCarthy won for fiction for his sparse, apocalyptic novel “The Road.”
The 2007 winners:
JOURNALISM:
PUBLIC SERVICE – The Wall Street Journal, for coverage of a 2006 stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America.
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING – The (Portland) Oregonian for print and online coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING – Brett Blackledge, The Birmingham News, for his exposure of cronyism and corruption in Alabama’s two-year college system. (Moved by the board from the Public Service category.)
EXPLANATORY REPORTING – Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis, the Los Angeles Times, for print and online reports on the world’s distressed oceans.
LOCAL REPORTING – Debbie Cenziper, The Miami Herald, for reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency.
NATIONAL REPORTING – Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe, for revelations that President Bush often used “signing statements” to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING – The Wall Street Journal staff, for reports on the adverse impact of China’s booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution.
FEATURE WRITING – Andrea Elliott, The New York Times, for her portrait of an immigrant imam.
COMMENTARY – Cynthia Tucker, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, for columns “that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community.”
CRITICISM – Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly, for his “zestful, wide-ranging” restaurant reviews.
EDITORIAL WRITING – New York Daily News editorial board, for editorials on behalf of ailing ground zero workers.
EDITORIAL CARTOONING – Walt Handelsman, Newsday, for his “stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation.”
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY – Oded Balilty, The Associated Press, for his photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank.
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY – Renee C. Byer, The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, for her portrait of a single mother and her dying child.
ARTS:
FICTION – “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf).
DRAMA – “Rabbit Hole,” by David Lindsay-Abaire.
HISTORY – “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation,” by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf).
BIOGRAPHY – “The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher,” by Debby Applegate (Doubleday).
POETRY – “Native Guard,” by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin).
GENERAL NONFICTION – “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf).
MUSIC – “Sound Grammar,” by Ornette Coleman.
