PRIZED PACKAGES: The Wall Street Journal was bestowed two Pulitzer Prizes — for its financial reporting, naturally — on Monday, the only publication to take home multiple honors. The Journal won for public service for its reports on backdating stock options for business executives and for international reporting on capitalism's effect on China. Other winners included The New York Times for feature writing for Andrea Elliott's coverage of an imam finding his way in America, and The New York Daily News, which won a nod for editorial writing for editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers besieged with health problems (though the News was later called out by The New York Times on its reporting relating to its news accounts of one of those workers, Cesar Borja, who died in January). The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis earned an award for explanatory reporting for their coverage of the world's distressed oceans, while Charlie Savage of the The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer for national reporting for his reports on President Bush using "signing statements" to assert his right to bypass provisions of new laws. The Associated Press took home an award for breaking-news photography for an image of a Jewish woman battling Israeli security forces during an evacuation of illegal settlers in the West Bank. — S.D.S.
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Posted Tuesday April 17, 2007
From WWD Issue 04/17/2007
PRIZED PACKAGES: The Wall Street Journal was bestowed two Pulitzer Prizes — for its financial reporting, naturally — on Monday, the only publication to take home multiple honors. The Journal won for public service for its reports on backdating stock options for business executives and for international reporting on capitalism's effect on China. Other winners included The New York Times for feature writing for Andrea Elliott's coverage of an imam finding his way in America, and The New York Daily News, which won a nod for editorial writing for editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers besieged with health problems (though the News was later called out by The New York Times on its reporting relating to its news accounts of one of those workers, Cesar Borja, who died in January). The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis earned an award for explanatory reporting for their coverage of the world's distressed oceans, while Charlie Savage of the The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer for national reporting for his reports on President Bush using "signing statements" to assert his right to bypass provisions of new laws. The Associated Press took home an award for breaking-news photography for an image of a Jewish woman battling Israeli security forces during an evacuation of illegal settlers in the West Bank. — S.D.S.





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