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2011 Pulitzer Prizes

Journalism

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Winners
Finalists

Los Angeles Times

For its exposure of corruption in the small California city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, resulting in arrests and reforms.
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Paige St. John of Sarasota Herald-Tribune

For her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action.
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Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.
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Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of Chicago Sun-Times

For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.
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Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica

For their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation's economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers.
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Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times

For their dogged reporting that put a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia, remarkably influencing the discussion inside the country.
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Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ

For her deeply probing story of the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men.
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David Leonhardt of The New York Times

For his graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform.
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Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe

For his vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation.
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Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal

For his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.
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Barbara Davidson of Los Angeles Times

For her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city's crossfire of deadly gang violence.
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Mike Keefe of The Denver Post

For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.
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Special Citations

Books, Drama & Music

Category
Winners
Finalists

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)

An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
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Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris

For "Clybourne Park," a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness.
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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic)

A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.
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Madame White Snake, by Zhou Long (Oxford University Press)

Premiered on February 26, 2010 by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West. Libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs (Oxford University Press).
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