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2012 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: M. Sullivan, N. Lemann, J. Amoss, S. Gissler, A. Lipinski, R. Beck. K. Carroll; back row, left to right: T. Friedman, J. Diaz, R. Blau, G. Moore, P. Gigot, D. Allen, P. Tash, S. Hahn, E. Robinson, K. Willey, J. Dehli and J. VandeHei.

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Kathleen Carroll, Ann Marie Lipinski and Jim Amoss, co-chairs; Sig Gissler, administrator

John Branch

Publication
The New York Times
Citation
For his deeply reported story of Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player valued for his brawling, whose tragic story shed light on a popular sport's disturbing embrace of potentially brain-damaging violence.
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Categories: Feature Writing

Thomson Reuters Staff

Citation
For its well-crafted reports on the momentous revolution in Libya that went beyond battlefield dispatches to tell the wider story of discontent, conflict and the role of outside powers.
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Categories: International Reporting

Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Publication
The Wall Street Journal
Citation
For her compelling examination of aggressive debt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable but largely unseen by the public, vexed borrowers hard hit by the nation's financial crisis.
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Categories: National Reporting

Jeff Donn

Publication
the Associated Press
Citation
For his diligent exposure of federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards as aging nuclear power plants exceed their original life spans, with interactive data and videos used to drive home the findings.
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Categories: National Reporting

A.M. Sheehan and Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Publication
Advertiser Democrat
Citation
For their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions in federally-supported housing in a small rural community that, within hours, triggered a state investigation.
Location
Norway, Maine, a weekly
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Categories: Local Reporting

Staff of California Watch

Citation
For its rigorous probe of deficient earthquake protection in the construction of public schools across the state, telling the story with words, graphics, videos and other tools.
Location
Berkeley
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Categories: Local Reporting

The Wall Street Journal Staff

Citation
For its tenacious exploration of how personal information is harvested from the cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public officials in a largely unmonitored realm of modern life.
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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Tom Frank

Publication
USA Today
Citation
For his sharply focused exploration of inflated pensions for state and local employees, enhancing stories with graphic material to show how state legislators pump up retirement benefits in creative but unconscionable ways.
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Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Gary Marx and David Jackson

Publication
the Chicago Tribune
Citation
For their exposure of a neglectful state justice system that allowed dozens of brutal criminals to evade punishment by fleeing the country, sparking moves for corrective change.
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Categories: Investigative Reporting
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