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The New York Times reports:
The Sun Sentinel of South Florida won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its coverage of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a tragedy that unfolded just miles from the paper’s newsroom.
Reporters spent months documenting the shooting and its aftermath in their community and its affect on the national debate over gun rights. In a harrowing reconstruction, The Sun Sentinel revealed a series of failures by local officials and law enforcement that, the paper wrote, cost children their lives.
In honoring a smaller newspaper, the Pulitzer board recognized the importance of local journalism at a moment when regional papers are struggling to survive. The awards, first handed out in 1917, are presented annually by Columbia University for excellence in journalism and letters.
Announcements thread: The #Pulitzer for public service was awarded to the @SunSentinel for exposing the failures of school and law enforcement officials before and during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida: https://t.co/hoUgm0tZd1 pic.twitter.com/KAThJScux7
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 15, 2019
The @capgaznews will receive a special citation for its heroic ability to continue to publish after a shooter entered its newsroom and killed five newsroom staffers. The #Pulitzer Foundation will make a $100,000 donation to the Gazette to expand its journalism.
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 15, 2019
The board also honored the career and work of singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin, who died Aug. 16, 2018. Artists such as Bob Dylan and Hank Williams have been honored with similar #Pulitzers awards in the past.
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 15, 2019
The #Pulitzer for editorial writing was awarded to @BrentNYT of @nytimes for charting racial fault lines in the United States at a polarizing moment in the country’s history https://t.co/xejMwQRTEd
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 15, 2019
The #Pulitzer for national reporting was awarded to @WSJ for uncovering President Donald Trump’s secret payoffs, during his campaign, to women who claimed to have had affairs with him https://t.co/BW7rH9iR0J
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 15, 2019
The #Pulitzer for explanatory reporting was awarded to David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of @nytimes for an investigation of President Trump’s finances that exposed the president’s persistent tax dodging https://t.co/IkT3LuDcRI
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 15, 2019