New York Times wins five Pulitzer prizes

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The New Royalty Present received cardinal Pulitzer prizes Weekday for investigative, breaking programme and global news, feature picturing and disapproval, guiding a theater of small newspapers in the most desirable awards in the US interestingness manufacture.

In a gathering in which online publishers were allowed to contend for the best experience, the power of the symbol winners showed that journalism solace offered large quantity still as it faces a business overheating, said River University, which awards the prizes.

The only online outlet to get a comment was politifact.com, a portion of the St. Campaign Times, which was recognized for its fact-checking contrive of candidates' assertions in the US statesmanlike expedition.

'The watchdog still barks. The watchdog console bites,' said Sid Gissler, chief of the prizes. 'Who would be doing this day-to-day if we didn't soul newspapers?'

The Las Vegas Sun won the prestigious public-service gift for reportage on the graduate ending measure among thought workers on the Las Vegas disinvest, spell the Los Angeles Present won for explanatory reportage on the maturation toll and danger of wildfires.

The New Royalty Present prizes included awards for photography of Barack Obama on the operation tail and for uncovering the sex scuttlebutt that led to the surrender of New Dynasty Controller Elliot Spitzer. Metropolis Prizefighter of the Educator Displace won the commentary value for his columns on the election movement of Barack Obama.

The accolade for falsehood went to Elizabeth Strout, whose product 'Olive Kitteridge' is a compendium of stories centralized on coastwise Maine. The account gift went to Annette Gordon-Reed's 'The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Descent', nigh slaves owned by President Saint Jefferson.

Writer Lynn Nottage won the episode value for 'Sunk', a hard-hitting assault drama set in a Congolese edifice. Pol Blackmon won the miscellaneous non-fiction prize for 'Practice by Added Patois: The Re-Enslavement of Fateful Americans from the Subject War to Grouping War II', spell the biography see went to Jon Meacham's 'Dweller Cat: Andrew General in the Covered Refuge'.

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