Pulitzer journalism – Pulitzer Prizes awarded in New York – Frankfurter Rundschau

April 20, 2015

Excellent Cartoons: The regional newspaper “Buffalo News” is being honored for his caricatures the Pulitzer Prize. Photo: AP

A woman dies – tragic but inevitable. Or not? A regional newspaper in the United States has investigated such cases. For her report, she was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

A report on unexplained deaths of women in South Carolina has received this year’s Pulitzer Prize , The newspaper “The Post and Courier» Charleston got on Monday in New York the prize in the “public service” awarded, considered the top category. Prices for investigative journalism went to the “Wall Street Journal” for an article on patient information for health insurance and the “New York Times”, which described the power of lobbyists in Congress in Washington. The prize was awarded for the 99th time.

The article “Till death do us part” of the regional newspaper from Charleston questions the death of more than 300 women within ten years, which does not have been investigated or only half-heartedly. Too often, the reporter say after the search, were in the game without that police and other authorities would be very interested for unexplained circumstances. The articles have raised the issue on the agenda of politics in South Carolina, praised the jury.

The Pulitzer Prize is available in 21 divisions, 14 of which are for journalistic work. Among the most important categories including “Investigative Journalism”. The “Wall Street Journal” had provided health insurance access to their own data. Were Disclosed this waste and mismanagement and careless handling of data. The “New York Times” had shown in a series on how much the legislation in Washington is influenced by lobbyists who manipulate the decisions of elected officials.

Of the 15 prices for journalistic work has been awarded three went alone to the “New York Times” and two to the “Los Angeles Times”. Among the excellent regional newspapers as well as leaves that were “The Buffalo News”, the “St. Louis Post “and even the” Post and Courier “.

The novel “All the light that we see not” by Anthony Doerr about the encounter of a French girl and a German boy during the Nazi era has the 99th Pulitzer Prize for literature won. The Americans will Doerr “imaginative and complex novel that is inspired by the horrors of the Second World War” for his appreciated, it said on Monday the prize committee in New York. Doerr write “in short, sleek chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.”

The award for the best poetry went to Gregory Pardlo, the prize for the best non-fiction book on Elizabeth Kolbert on the mass deaths of species. The Pulitzer Prize for the best history book receives Elizabeth A. Fenn for a work on the Mandan Indians. (AP)