AP News, April 16th, 2007
The 2007 Pulitzer Prize 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 _ Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of the New York Daily News, 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.
