US newspaper The Washington Post today won six Pulitzer Prizes, including the prestigious Public Service award for its reporting on conditions of US war veterans at America's flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won for "exposing the mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials."
The newspaper also won for breaking news reporting, national reporting, international reporting, feature writing and commentary.
Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography Monday for a picture of a Japanese videographer killed during a demonstration in Myanmar. Adrees Latif won for "his dramatic photograph of the Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar," the Pulitzer Prize board said.
The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced at Columbia University in New York City.
The Public Service winner receives a gold medal and winners in the remaining 20 categories receive $10,000.
Entrants in the letters, drama and music categories must be US citizens, while in the journalism category entrants can be any nationality but their work must have appeared in a US newspaper.