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Summary For the first time no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for breaking news.
The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times each won two coveted Pulitzer Prizes for journalism.The board does not discuss or debate specific decisions, the awards are supposed to basically speak for themselves, said Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer Prizes honor journalism, books, drama and poetry and are awarded annually by the Pulitzer Prize Board at New York City s Columbia University.The Los Angeles Times won the public service award for exposing corruption in the Californian city of Bell where officials paid themselves large salaries. The coverage led to arrests and reforms. The New York Times Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry won in the international reporting category for putting a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia, remarkably influencing the discussion inside the country.There had been 25 other occasions when awards were not given in some categories.
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