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2015 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: P. Gigot, R. Blau, K. Willey, D. Allen, M. Pride, G. Collins, J. Diaz; back row, left to right: A. Marquez, K. Boo, S. Coll, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn, R. Beck, J. Daniszewski, E. Robinson, Q. Hudes (absent from photo: L. Bollinger, J. Dehli)

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Danielle Allen, chair; Mike Pride, administrator

The Wall Street Journal Staff

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Mike Pride, Lee Bollinger and Wall Street Journal staff
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For "Medicare Unmasked," a pioneering project that gave Americans unprecedented access to previously confidential data on the motivations and practices of their health care providers.
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Categories: Investigative Reporting

Eric Lipton

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Mike Pride, Lee Bollinger and Eric Lipton
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For reporting that showed how the influence of lobbyists can sway congressional leaders and state attorneys general, slanting justice toward the wealthy and connected.
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Categories: Investigative Reporting
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The New York Times

Elizabeth A. Fenn

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Mike Pride, Lee Bollinger and Elizabeth A. Fenn
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An engrossing, original narrative showing the Mandans, a Native American tribe in the Dakotas, as a people with a history.
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Categories: History
Publisher
Hill and Wang
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

Lisa Falkenberg

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Lee Bollinger and Lisa Falkenberg
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For vividly-written, groundbreaking columns about grand jury abuses that led to a wrongful conviction and uncovered other egregious problems in the legal and immigration systems.
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Categories: Commentary
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Houston Chronicle

The Seattle Times Staff

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Lee Bollinger and Seattle Times staff
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For its digital account of a landslide that killed 43 people and the impressive follow-up reporting that explored whether the calamity could have been avoided.
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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Elizabeth Kolbert

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Mike Pride, Lee Bollinger and Elizabeth Kolbert
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An exploration of nature that forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity.
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Categories: General Nonfiction
Publisher
Henry Holt
Publication
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Gregory Pardlo

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Clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America, rich with thought, ideas and histories public and private.
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Categories: Poetry
Publisher
Four Way Books
Publication
Digest

David I. Kertzer

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An engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms.
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Categories: Biography
Publisher
Random House
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Mike Pride, Lee Bollinger and Stephen Adly guirgis
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A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.
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Categories: Drama
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Between Riverside and Crazy

Julia Wolfe

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Mike Pride, Lee Bollinger and Julie Wolfe
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A powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.
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Categories: Music
Publisher
Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc.
Publication
Anthracite Fields
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