The St. Louis Post-Dispatch took home an award for Breaking News Photography, and the New York Times won the three prizes, including one for International Reporting.
Today marks the 99th year of the Pulitzer Prize. The prestigious award is named after famed Hungarian journalist Joseph Pulitzer, who is credited as being the first to champion journalism training in academic institutions.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Robert Cohen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via MCT
St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff for its coverage of protests after unarmed teen Michael Brown was gunned down by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
Finalists in this category were Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, and Uriel Sinai of the New York Times, and Tyler Hicks, Sergey Ponomarev, and Wissam Nassar of the New York Times.
Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle for her series of columns on Alfred Dewayne Brown, who was convicted of killing a police officer but, she argues, was likely innocent.
Finalists in this category were the late David Carr of the New York Times, and Matthew Kaminski of the Wall Street Journal.
These Are All Of The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners
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