Pulitzer Prize winners announced – Parool.nl

20-04-15 21:52 pm – Source: Het Parool

The Post and Courier received a Pulitzer Prize for this production. © The Post and Courier

The winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize were announced tonight by Columbia University in New York. The major journalism award has been won by a small newspaper in South Carolina.

It’s The Post and Courier in South Carolina, a newspaper with 80 people on the payroll and a circulation of 85,000 copies. The Pulitzer Prize in the category ‘Public Service’ was awarded this title for a series about the high number of deaths due to domestic violence in the state, under the title ‘Till Death Do Us Part. ”

Last year won The Washington Post and The Guardian in this category for their coverage of the revelations of Edward Snowden. Prices in other categories went this year to include The New York Times for reporting on the Ebola crisis and an article on tax evasion by Bloomberg News.

If you can not see the light
The American writer Anthony Doerr received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his book, All the Light We Can not See (Dutch translation: If you can not see the light). On the website of the Pulitzer Prize winners of 2015 are all in a row.

The Pulitzer Prize is a US price since 1917 is awarded to journalism, but also books, drama and music. They are named after the Hungarian-born journalist Joseph Pulitzer, who lived in the nineteenth century and the establishment of the Pulitzer Prize recorded in his will

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