And The Award Goes To…

The Pulitzer Prize Award winners were just announced and you can see the full list of winners over at their website, or below the jump. Notice that there was no award given this year for Editorial Writing. Also notice Bob Dylan got a Special Citation “for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”

Reading through the Pulitzer requirements it is interesting to read up on what the award for Editorial Writing is all about:

11. For distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction, in print or in print and online.

You would think in a year so ripe with topics that some one would stand out in the field. Maybe next year AM will have to toss its hat into the ring.

Here are a selection of quotes from some Pulitzer winners.

And a Reuters story by Andrees Latif about how he snapped his prize winning photo.

And The Winners are:

PUBLIC SERVICE	The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING	The Washington Post Staff
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING	Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING	The Chicago Tribune Staff
EXPLANATORY REPORTING	Amy Harmon of The New York Times
LOCAL REPORTING	David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
NATIONAL REPORTING	Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING	Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post
FEATURE WRITING	Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post
COMMENTARY	Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post
CRITICISM	Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL WRITING	No Award
EDITORIAL CARTOONING	Michael Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY	Adrees Latif of Reuters
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY	Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor
FICTION	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
DRAMA	August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
HISTORY	What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY	Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
POETRY	Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
POETRY	Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
GENERAL NONFICTION	The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)
MUSIC	The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer)
SPECIAL CITATION	Bob Dylan