Award | USA Newshour https://usanewshour.com Breaking News, Latest headlines, Top Election stories, Photos & Videos Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:25:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://usanewshour.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-icon-150x150.jpg Award | USA Newshour https://usanewshour.com 32 32 Pulitzer 2021 Prize Winners announced https://usanewshour.com/pulitzer-2021-prize-winners-announced/29945/ Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:25:05 +0000 https://usanewshour.com/?p=29945 The New York Times awarded for Public Service- “For courageous, prescient and sweeping coverage of the coronavirus pandemic that exposed racial and economic inequities, government failures in the U.S. and beyond.”

The staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn for Breaking News Reporting- For the coverage of George Floyd’s case and the protests regarding the same.

For National Reporting the Staff of The Marshall Project; AL.com, Birmingham; IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute, Chicago were rewarded for their “year-long investigation of K-9 units and the damage that police dogs inflict on Americans, including innocent citizens and police officers, prompting numerous statewide reforms.”

Associated Press awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for photography- Breaking News Photography: Black Lives Matters Protests in different cities of the US. Feature Photography- Emilio Morenatti for coverage of the hardships in the lives of the elderly in Spain during the pandemic.

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