New York Daily News, ProPublica win Pulitzer Prize for eviction scandal
NEW YORK — The New York Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering how police abused eviction rules to oust hundreds of people, mostly poor minorities, from their homes.
In a year when the tumultuous presidential campaign dominated U.S. news, David A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post was honored with the Pulitzer for national reporting for exposing questionable practices at Donald Trump’s charitable foundation. The New York Times’ staff received the international reporting award for its work on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Moscow’s power abroad.
Eric Eyre of The Charleston Gazette-Mail won the investigative reporting prize for writing about the scourge of opiate painkillers in poor parts of West Virginia.
The staff of the East Bay Times in Oakland, California, received the breaking news reporting award for its coverage of a fire that killed 36 people at a warehouse party and its follow-up reporting on how local officials hadn’t taken action that might have prevented it.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald — which amassed a group of over 400 journalists to examine of the leaked “Panama Papers” and expose the way that politicians, criminals and rich people stashed case in offshore accounts — won the Pulitzer for explanatory reporting.
The staff of The Salt Lake Tribune received the local reporting award for its work on how sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University are treated.
Considered the most distinguished awards in American journalism, the Pulitzers are handed out in 14 categories of reporting, photography, criticism and commentary by newspapers, magazines and websites.
Arts prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music.
This is the 101st year of the contest, established by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Public service award winners receive a gold medal; the other awards carry a prize of $10,000 each.
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Feb. 18, 2016. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Michael Short.
Pulitzer winners, left to right, Rachel Piper, Jessica Miller, Erin Alberty, Alex Stuckey and Sheila McCann from the Salt Lake Tribune, look on during a Pulitzer party in their newsroom Monday, April 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune staff won for reports revealing the mistreatment of sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Miami Herald reporter Nicholas Nehamas, right, gets a hug from Executive Editor and Vice President Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, while reporter Jim Wyss, left, looks on via Skype from Bogota after hearing that Nehamas and Wyss were part of an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The group reported on the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens. President and Publisher Casey Frank, second left, joins the celebration. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald via AP)
Chicago Tribune photographer E. Jason Wambsgans is congratulated in the Tribune newsroom in Chicago by Tribune columnist Mary Schmich on Monday, April 10, 2017, after it was announced that Wambsgans won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Wambsgans won for a series that portrayed a boy and his mother striving to put the boyâs life back together after he survived a shooting in Chicago. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune via AP)
Tavon Tanner, now 11, was shot on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his mother and twin sister next to him. He was in the hospital until late September 2016, the result of the initial surgery followed by infection. Tavon is one of 24 children under the age of 12 who were shot in Chicago in 2016. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
Pulitzer winners from the Salt Lake Tribune, Jessica Miller, left, and Erin Alberty hug during a Pulitzer party in their newsroom Monday, April 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune staff won for reports revealing the mistreatment of sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Miami Herald reporter Nicholas Nehamas, right, gets a hug from Executive Editor and Vice President Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, while reporter Jim Wyss, left, looks on via Skype from Bogota after hearing that Nehamas and Wyss were part of an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The group reported on the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens. President and Publisher Casey Frank, second left, joins the celebration. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald via AP)
Chicago Tribune photographer E. Jason Wambsgans is congratulated in the Tribune newsroom in Chicago by Tribune columnist Mary Schmich on Monday, April 10, 2017, after it was announced that Wambsgans won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Wambsgans won for a series that portrayed a boy and his mother striving to put the boyâs life back together after he survived a shooting in Chicago. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune via AP)
Tavon Tanner, now 11, was shot on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his mother and twin sister next to him. He was in the hospital until late September 2016, the result of the initial surgery followed by infection. Tavon is one of 24 children under the age of 12 who were shot in Chicago in 2016. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
Pulitzer winners from the Salt Lake Tribune, Jessica Miller, left, and Erin Alberty hug during a Pulitzer party in their newsroom Monday, April 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune staff won for reports revealing the mistreatment of sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Feb. 18, 2016. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Michael Short.