HuffPo, Politico Earn First Pulitzers
The winners of the 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were unveiled Monday at Columbia University. You can check out a full list here.
Among the more notable winners were the Huffington Post's David Wood, who grabbed the award for national reporting for his reporting on the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers who were severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The award was HuffPo's first-ever Pulitzer.
Politico also earned the right to call itself a Pulitzer-winning publication for the first time, thanks to Matt Wuerker's political cartoons.
Meanwhile, 24-year-old Sara Ganim and the staff at Pennsylvania's Patriot-News nabbed the award for local reporting for uncovering the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal at Penn State.
Some of the more established outlets didn't leave empty-handed, however. The New York Times won a pair of awards: one for David Kocieniewski's explanatory reporting on how the nation’s wealthiest people and corporations often exploit tax loopholes, and a second for Jeffrey Gettleman's international reporting on famine and conflict in East Africa.
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