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Journalism of Courage
The following 2004 Pulitzer Prize winners in Journalism and Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday:
• Public Service: The New York Times for the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman on death and injury among American workers.
• International Reporting: Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post for his coverage at his personal peril of Iraqis during the invasion of Iraq.
• Investigative Reporting: Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr of The Blade, Ohio, for their series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite US Army platoon during the Vietnam War.
• Breaking News: Los Angeles Times staff for coverage of wildfires in southern California.
• National reporting: Los Angeles Times staff for its examinations of how Wal-Mart became the largest company in the world.
• Editorial Writing: William Stall of Los Angeles Times for editorials on California’s troubled govt.
• Editorial Cartooning: Matt Davies of The Journal News, White Plains, New York.
• Breaking News Photography: David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer of The Dallas Morning News for photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
• Feature Photography: Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times for a behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia.
Letters and drama
• Fiction: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Drama: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.
•History: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
• Biography: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman (W.W. Norton.)
Prize in Music
• Tempest Fantasy by Paul Moravec.
