2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners

JOURNALISM

Public service • The Philadelphia Inquirer for its exploration of violence in the city’s schools.

Breaking news reporting • The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News staff for its coverage of a deadly tornado.

Investigative reporting • Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of The Associated Press for their spotlighting of the New York Police Department’s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities; and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times 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.

Explanatory reporting • David Kocieniewski of The New York Times for his series on how the nation’s richest citizens and corporations avoided taxes.

Local reporting • Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News staff, Harrisburg, Pa., for revealing and covering the Penn State sex scandal involving ex-football coach Jerry Sandusky.

National reporting • David Wood of The Huffington Post for exploring the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

International reporting • Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times for his reports on famine and conflict in East Africa.

Feature writing • Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle weekly, for his story of a woman who survived an attack that took the life of her partner.

Commentary • Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune for columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city.

Criticism • Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe for film criticism.

Editorial writing • No award.

Editorial cartooning • Matt Wuerker of Politico.

Breaking news photography • Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse for his image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber’s attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul.

Feature photography • Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post for his chronicle of an honorably discharged veteran, home from Iraq and struggling with post-traumatic stress.

ARTS

Fiction • No award.

Drama • “Water by the Spoonful” by Quiara Alegrma Hudes.

History • “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” by the late Manning Marable (Viking).

Biography • “George F. Kennan: An American Life” by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press), a portrait of a globe-trotting diplomat.

Poetry • “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press).

General nonfiction • “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Co.).

Music • “Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts” by Kevin Puts.

Associated Press