News Alert: 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

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News Alert: 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Monday, April 16, 2012 -- 3:28 PM EDT
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2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for its reporting on Africa and another for an investigative series on obscure tax code provisions that allow wealthy corporations and citizens to avoid paying taxes. But the bigger surprise this year came from new media. Online news outlets The Huffington Post and Politico both won their first Pulitzer Prizes, a sign of the changing media landscape.

Also notable this year was the lack of prizes in some categories. The Pulitzer Prize board did not name a winner in the editorial writing category and more notably declined to name a winner in the coveted fiction category for the first time in 35 years.

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The Pulitzer Prize board did not name a winner in the editorial writing category and more notably declined to name a winner in the coveted fiction category for the first time in 35 years.

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That is strange. There are good books written all the time.

I have not noticed any decline in editorials, either.

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That is odd isn't it.

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