Wall Street Journal emerged as the only multiple winner on Monday when the coveted Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. It won for its coverage of adverse effects of fast-paced economic development in China and a share-dealing scandal that led to changes in corporate America.

At the 91st annual Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, as many as, thirteen different news organizations won in various categories. Amongst them Wall Street Journal was the only multiple prizewinner.

Wall Street Journal won the top two prizes for journalism that were up for grabs. It bagged the prize for ‘Public Service’ and for ‘International Reporting.’ The prizes, announced at Columbia University, come with a $10,000 award except for the public service prize, the winner of which gets a gold medal.

The Pulitzer Prize for public service was awarded to Wall Street Journal for its ‘creative and comprehensive probe’ into the unethical practices of American business executives who had rewarded themselves millions of dollars by backdating stock options. The articles, by Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow, led to federal investigation of more than 130 companies.

The Pulitzer Prize committee, said in a statement:

The newspaper’s coverage triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America.

The Journal also won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for a series of articles about the adverse effects of industrial development on China.

Among the other winners was The New York Times, which won the editorial writing prize for its opinion articles of the fate of workers who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of September 11. The breaking news photography prize went to Oded Bality of The Associated Press for a photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in West Bank. The prize for local reporting went to the Miami Herald for articles by Debbie Cenziper which revealed that developers had received millions of dollars to build housing projects that they never delivered on.

The Pulitzer prize for fiction meanwhile went to Cormac McCarthy for the novel “The Road,” an account of a father and son’s journey through a post-Apocalyptic America. 77-year-old jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman was honored in music for “Sounder Grammar,” a live recording.

Also for the first time, the Pulitzer Prize Board pulled a play –” Rabbit Hole” — out of the hat for the drama award after three finalists approved by the jury in that category failed to attract the necessary majority of board members.

Source: eitb24