South Carolina Paper Wins Pulitzer for Domestic Violence Series
Prestigious prizes announced Monday for journalism, books, drama and music.
won three prestigious Monday while a South Carolina newspaper,  won the Pulitzer for public service for its series on domestic violence against women. explored the deaths of 300 women over the past decade, with judges calling it "a riveting series that probed why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women." won its awards for and for and that told the story of the devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa. won two of the prizes, for feature writing on the and for television criticism. Two other prestigious U.S. newspapers,  and each won a prize. won for . took the One of the biggest U.S. stories of the year -- the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the resulting racial unrest -- was and earned the newspaper a Pulitzer for breaking news photography. staff took the breaking news award for its . Bloomberg News was a first-time winner, earning the explanatory reporting award for an . The prize for local reporting went to journalists at the of Torrance, California for Besides the journalism categories, Pulitzer prizes also were awarded in literature, history, drama and music. The fiction prize was won by Anthony Doerr for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See," while the biography award went to David Kertzer for his book "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe." The annual prizes, begun in 1917, are named for publisher Joseph Pulitzer and are administered by Columbia University in New York City. In 20 of the categories, each winner receives $10,000. The winner for public service in journalism is awarded a gold medal. of Charleston, South Carolina staff Eric Lipton of  and staff Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the of Torrance, California Carol D. Leonnig of staff Diana Marcum of the Lisa Falkenberg of the Mary McNamara of the Kathleen Kingsbury of Adam Zyglis of photography staff Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Guirgis "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" by Elizabeth A. Fenn "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe" by David I. Kertzer "Digest" by Gregory Pardlo : "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert "Anthracite Fields" by Julia Wolfe