By: E&P Staff
Update posted at 3:15 PM EST, April 6: The original version of this list inadvertently omitted The Providence Journal as a finalist in the Public Service category. E&P apologizes for the omission.The Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes Monday, with The Wall Street Journal winning two. No other newspaper picked up more than one award this year.
The New York Times' one award came for Public Service, considered the most distinguished Pulitzer given. The complete winners and finalists are:
Public ServiceThe New York Times for reporting by David Barstow and Lowell Bergman on death and injury among American workers.
Finalists:
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., for coverage of how delays in the state's criminal justice system harmed victims and defendants.
The Providence (R.I.) Journal for coverage of the nightclub fire that killed 100 people and spread anguish across America's smallest state.
The Seattle Times for reporting by Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan on sexual misconduct by male coaches.
Breaking News ReportingLos Angeles Times staff for its coverage of massive wildfires.
Finalists:
The Miami Herald staff for the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
The staff of Newsday, Melville, N.Y., for the summer blackout.
Investigative ReportingThe Blade of Toledo, Ohio, for reporting by Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr on Vietnam atrocities.
Finalists:
David Barstow and Lowell Bergman of The New York Times for workplace safety (moved by the Pulitzer Board to the Public Service category)
David Ottaway and Joe Stephens of The Washington Post for coverage of questionable practices by a respected environmental group.
Explanatory ReportingThe Wall Street Journal of New York, for reporting by Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton on aneurysms, an overlooked medical condition that kills thousands each year.
Finalists:
Erika Niedowski of The Sun, Baltimore, for a story on how one of America's best hospitals let an infant with a preventable condition die.
Bernard Wolfson, William Heisel and Chris Knap of The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif., for their exploration of the quality of care at 26 local hospitals.
Beat ReportingDaniel Golden of The Wall Street Journal, New York, for stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
Finalists:
Ellen Barry of The Boston Globe for coverage of mental health issues in Massachusetts.
Barton Gellman of The Washington Post for coverage of the search for WMD in Iraq.
National ReportingLos Angeles Times staff for its examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart a corporate powerhouse.
Finalists:
S. Lynne Walker of Copley News Service (writing for The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.) for a look at how Mexican immigration changed an all-white Midwestern town.
The Wall Street Journal staff for reports on how hidden decision-makers make life-and-death choices about who gets health care in America.
International ReportingAnthony Shadid of The Washington Post for coverage of Iraq.
Finalists:
Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman of The Wall Street Journal for reports on starvation in Africa.
David Zucchino of the Los Angeles Times for coverage of combat in Iraq.
Feature WritingNo award given.
Finalists:
Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times on the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
Anne Hull and Tamara Jones of The Washington Post for reports on the lives of wounded soldiers returning from Iraq.
Patricia Wen of The Boston Globe for efforts by states to terminate the rights of parents.
CommentaryLeonard Pitts Jr. of The Miami Herald for "his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues."
Finalists:
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times.
Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
CriticismDan Neil of the Los Angeles Times for his reviews of automobiles.
Finalists:
Nicolai Ouroussoff of the Los Angeles Times for architecture.
Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer for architecture.
Editorial WritingWilliam Stall of the Los Angeles Times for his editorials analyzing California's troubled state government.
Finalists:
Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times for editorial on a variety of life situations.
Andrew Martinez of The New York Times for editorial on the global impact of American agricultural trade policy.
Editorial CartooningMatt Davies of The Journal News, Westchester, N.Y.
Finalists: Steve Sack of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis.
Garry Trudeau of Universal Press Syndicate.
Breaking News PhotographyThe Dallas Morning News, David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer for their photos of the Iraq war.
Finalists: The Associated Press staff for Iraq coverage.
Chris Hondros of Getty Images for Liberia photos.
Feature PhotographyLos Angeles Times, Carolyn Cole for her coverage of the civil war in Liberia.
Finalists:
Pauline Lubens, Dai Sugano and Patrick Tehan of the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News for the California recall election.
Damir Sagolj of Reuters for picture of an American medic holding an Iraqi child whose mother had just been killed.
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The Letters and Drama Prizes were also announced:
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"Krushchev: The Man and His Era" by William Taubman
Poetry"Walking to Martha's Vineyard" by Franz Wright
General Nonfiction"Gulag: A History" by Anne Applebaum
And the Prize In Music went to "Tempest Fantasy" by Paul Moravec.
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