2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
PUBLIC SERVICE: The Washington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: STEVE FAINARU, The Washington Post
NATIONAL REPORTING: JO BECKER and BARTON GELLMAN, The Washington Post
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER, New York Times
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Chicago Tribune staff
FEATURE WRITING: GENE WEINGARTEN, Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: Washington Post
EXPLANATORY REPORTING: AMY HARMON, New York Times
LOCAL REPORTING: DAVID UMHOEFER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
COMMENTARY: STEVE PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post
CRITICISM: MARK FEENEY, The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL CARTOONING: MICHAEL RAMIREZ, Investor’s Business Daily
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: ADREES LATIF, Reuters
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: PRESTON GANNAWAY, Concord Monitor
2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music
HISTORY: DANIEL WALKER HOWE, What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848
BIOGRAPHY: JOHN MATTESON, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
FICTION: JUNOT DIAZ, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
GENERAL NONFICTION: SAUL FRIEDLANDER, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
DRAMA: TRACY LETTS, August: Osage County
POETRY: ROBERT HASS, Time and Materials; AND PHILIP SCHULTZ, Failure
MUSIC: DAVID LANG, The Little Match Girl Passion
SPECIAL CITATION: BOB DYLAN