NY Times dominates 2009 Pulitzer Prize contest

2009-11-15

NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - The New York Times dominated the coveted Pulitzer Prizes announced on Monday, winning five in categories including investigative reporting, breaking news reporting and international reporting.

The Las Vegas Sun won the Pulitzer's most prestigious Public Service Prize for its reporting on the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas strip, according to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music.

The New York Times also won for feature photography and criticism.

Other winners were the Los Angeles Times for explanatory reporting, the St. Petersburg Times for feature writing and the Miami Herald for breaking news photography.

This marked the first year that entries from news organizations that publish entirely on the Internet were allowed to compete in the journalism categories. However there were no online winners, and just one online outlet, Politico.com, was a finalist, said Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzers.

The prizes honor the best in U.S. print journalism as well as arts, music and literature. (Reporting by Robert MacMillan [1], writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; editing by Jackie Frank)

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