2017 Pulitzer Prizes awarded for work on U.S.
By Dr.Ali Fourkan
The 101th edition of the awards comes with the US
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Work that challenged US President Donald Trump during
the country's divisive election campaign, the Panama Papers, as well as images
on the Philippines US
The 101th
edition of the awards, announced at Columbia University in New York, came
with the US news media under assault from the White House for peddling
"fake news" critical of the administration, and after the press took
a bashing for failure to predict Trump's election.
David Fahrenthold of The
Washington Post won the
national reporting award for what the board called "a model for
transparent journalism" that cast doubt on Trump's assertions of
charitable generosity.
Fahrenthold investigated not only Trump's claims of
charitable giving but also disclosed that the Republican presidential candidate
had boasted in crude terms about groping women in a 2005 videotape.
While on the campaign trail seeking the Republican
nomination, Trump said he had raised $6 million for veterans, but stopped
distributing the money having given out just a little more than $1
million.
Journalism during the campaign was also honored with
the Pulitzer for commentary going to Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal for what the board called
"beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues
of Americans during one of the nation's most divisive political
campaigns."
The coveted Public Service medal went to tabloid the New York Daily News and investigative news site ProPublica
for uncovering official abuse of eviction rules that ousted hundreds of mostly
poor minorities from their homes.
There were a total of 21 categories in journalism,
arts and letters.
Cornerstone of democracy
"The prizes represent the core values of two
realms: independent inquiry into public affairs, and creativity and scholarship
in telling the story of America
In his introduction he said the winning journalism
included reporting that challenges "powerful politicians and
institutions" and exposed "systematic abuse of people with little
hope of defending themselves."
The New York Times won the international reporting award for
"agenda-setting" coverage of Vladimir Putin's efforts to project
Russian power abroad, including assassinations and online harassment.
Russian attempts to sway the US
Freelance photographer Daniel Berehulak won for
breaking news photography for images published in The New York Times illustrating the Philippines
Pride challenged perceived wisdom that newspapers are
in decline, hard hit by falling readership and advertising revenue,
saying US reporting was in the midst of a digital-age revolution.
"Because journalists deliver uncomfortable truths
they will always be easy targets for criticism," Pride said. "But you
only have to pause to consider societies where journalism is suppressed to
realize even with its flaws, a vigorous free press remains a cornerstone of
democracy. It is truly an ally of the American people," he added.
"I'm not going to offer any kind of opinion about
the political scene other than that to say that journalists just need to keep
plugging and keep doing what they're doing," Pride later told reporters.
Violence, prisons, slavery
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The New York Times' C.J. Chivers won the feature writing award for showing a
Marine's postwar descent into violence.
The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer for feature photography for portraying
a 10-year-old boy who survived a shooting and his mother.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail won the investigative reporting award for coverage of
opioids in West
Virginia
The International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami
Herald won the explanatory
award for an investigative series on the Panama Papers, exposing the global
extent of offshore tax havens.
The Salt Lake Tribune won for local reporting for exposing cruel treatment
meted out to sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University Utah
The Pulitzer for fiction went to Colson Whitehead for
slavery novel The Underground
Railroad. Heather Ann Thompson won in the history category for History Blood in the Water: The
Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
The award for biography went to New York-born Libyan
writer Hisham Matar for The
Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between. – Rappler.com
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