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2014 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: J. Diaz, E. Robinson, P. Tash, S. Gissler, D. Allen, G. Collins. R. Beck; back row, left to right: J. Daniszewski, K. Boo, S. Engelberg, J. Dehli, K. Willey, S. Coll, A. Marques, B. Blau, S. Hahn, Q. Hudes and P. Gigot (absent from photo: L. Bollinger)

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Paul C. Tash, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator

Rebecca D. O'Brien and Thomas Mashberg

Publication
The Record
Citation
For their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs of northern New Jersey, profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community.
Location
Woodland Park, NJ
Tags: 2014
Categories: Local Reporting

Les Zaitz

Publication
The Oregonian
Citation
For chilling narratives that, at personal risk to him and his sources, revealed how lethal Mexican drug cartels infiltrated Oregon and other regions of the country.
Location
Portland
Tags: 2014
Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Dennis Overbye

Publication
The New York Times
Citation
For his authoritative illumination of the race by two competing teams of 3,000 scientists and technicians over a seven-year period to discover what physicists call the "God particle."
Tags: 2014
Categories: Explanatory Reporting

Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese

Publication
The Sacramento Bee
Citation
For their probe of a Las Vegas mental hospital that used commercial buses to "dump" more than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years, reporting that brought an end to the practice and the firing of hospital employees.
Tags: 2014
Categories: Investigative Reporting

Megan Twohey

Publication
Reuters
Citation
For her exposure of an underground Internet marketplace where parents could bypass social welfare regulations and get rid of children they had adopted overseas but no longer wanted, the stories triggering governmental action to curb the practice.
Tags: 2014
Categories: Investigative Reporting

Staff

Publication
The Washington Post
Citation
For its alert, in-depth coverage of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, employing a mix of platforms to tell a developing story with accuracy and sensitivity.
Tags: 2014
Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Staff

Publication
The Arizona Republic
Citation
For its compelling coverage of a fast-moving wildfire that claimed the lives of 19 firefighters and destroyed more than a hundred homes, using an array of journalistic tools to tell the story.
Tags: 2014
Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Newsday

Publication
Newsday
Citation
For its use of in-depth reporting and digital tools to expose shootings, beatings and other concealed misconduct by some Long Island police officers, leading to the formation of a grand jury and an official review of police accountability.
Location
Long Island, NY
Tags: 2014
Categories: Public Service

Christopher Cerrone

Publication
Invisible Cities
Citation
A captivating opera based on a novel by Italo Calvino in which Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of fantastical cities, adapted into an imaginary sonic landscape.
Publisher
Outburst-Inburst Musics
Tags: 2014
Categories: Music
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