Capital Gazette wins special Pulitzer Prize citation for coverage of newsroom shooting that killed f
Capital Gazette
The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a special citation Monday to the staff of the Capital Gazette for their work in covering the attack last June on their newsroom that killed five employees.
The 2019 prize winners and finalists were announced Monday afternoon at Columbia Universitys School of Journalism.
The Pulitzer Prize Boards special citation for the Capital Gazette was an unusual decision, existing outside of the 21 categories across journalism, books, drama and music awarded annually. A special citation was last awarded in 2011. The Capital Gazette staff was also a finalist in the editorial writing category.
In the face of incredible tragedy, the Capital Gazette staffers continued to report on the shooting in their own newsroom June 28 that killed Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.