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2016 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row left to right: J. Diaz, R. Blau, K. Willey, P. Gigot, M. Pride, J. Dehli, G. Collins; back row left to right: N. Brown, K. Boo, J. Daniszewski, R. Beck, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, A. Marqués, T. Shelby, S. Hahn, S. Coll (absent: L. Bollinger)

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Paul Gigot, chair; Mike Pride, administrator

Jack Ohman

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Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee.
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For cartoons that convey wry, rueful perspectives through sophisticated style that combines bold line work with subtle colors and textures.
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Categories: Editorial Cartooning
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The Sacramento Bee

Nicholas D. Kristof

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The New York Times
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For courageously reported and deeply felt columns focused on the crisis of refugees from Syria and other war-torn regions.
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Categories: Commentary

Steve Lopez

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Los Angeles Times
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For richly nuanced columns written in an elegant voice illuminating huge inequalities in wealth and opportunity in contemporary Los Angeles.
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Categories: Commentary

Farah Stockman

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Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe.
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For extensively reported columns that probe the legacy of busing in Boston and its effect on education in the city with a clear eye on ongoing racial contradictions.
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Categories: Commentary
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The Boston Globe

Eli Saslow

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The Washington Post
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For three humane and topical feature stories exploring lives affected by a natural disaster, gun violence and a frayed social safety net.
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Categories: Feature Writing

N.R. Kleinfield

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The New York Times
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For the layered and riveting account of the last days of a Queens man, part detective story, part eulogy and part exploration of a city's bureaucracy of death.
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Categories: Feature Writing

Kathryn Schulz

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Kathrun Schulz
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For an elegant scientific narrative of the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line, a masterwork of environmental reporting and writing.
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Categories: Feature Writing
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The New Yorker

The Washington Post Staff

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The Washington Post Staff
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For its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be.
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Categories: National Reporting
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