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2013 Pulitzer Prize winners

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:26:00 +0000

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners:

JOURNALISM

Public Service: Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Breaking News Reporting: The Denver Post staff

Investigative Reporting: David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab of The New York Times

Explanatory Reporting: The New York Times staff

Local Reporting: Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis

National Reporting: Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer of InsideClimate News, Brooklyn, NY

International Reporting: David Barboza of The New York Times

Feature Writing: John Branch of The New York Times

Commentary: Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal

Criticism: Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post

Editorial Writing: Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Editorial Cartooning: Steve Sack of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis

Breaking News Photography: Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen of The Associated Press

Feature Photography: Javier Manzano, freelance photographer, Agence France-Presse

ARTS

LETTERS AND DRAMA

Fiction: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (Random House)

Drama: Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:13:00 +0000

NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Orphan Master's Son."

Major corporations are pocketing your taxes

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:15:00 +0000

Nobody has done more to expose the infinite ways in which the American economy is rigged to benefit those at the top than Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston. His rigorously researched books –Perfectly Legal, Free Lunch and now his latest, The Fine Print, are not recommended for people with egalitarian views and high blood pressure – they're every bit as maddening to contemplate as they are informative.

Last week, AlterNet caught up with Johnston by phone. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our discussion.

Joshua Holland: David, for years you’ve reported how those who can afford the right accountants game this labyrinthian and opaque tax-code of ours. How surreal has it been for you to observe the amount of political conflict we've faced over the past few years over returning the top marginal rates to the same rate they were during the Clinton era -- taking them from 35 percent to 39 percent?

Award-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer dies

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer, whose in-depth non-fiction spanned presidential politics and the game of baseball, has died. He was 62.

His agent, Philippa Brophy, says Cramer died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications of lung cancer. He lived with his wife, Joan, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Cramer won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his reports from the Middle East while with The Philadelphia Inquirer.

But he was also known for a best-selling biography of New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio, a profile of another baseball star, Ted Williams, in Esquire Magazine and his book, "What It Takes: The Way to the White House," which provided a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of the 1988 U.S. presidential election.