Sara Ganim among 2012 Pulitzer winners April 16, 2012 -- Updated 2024 GMT (0424 HKT) Ganim is credited with breaking the story of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal Others winners include The Philadelphia Inquirer and David Wood of The Huffington Post The committee chose not to make an award in the Editorial Writing and Drama categories (CNN) -- The winners were announced Monday for the 2012 Pulitzer Prizes, the top U.S. awards for journalism, including photojournalism, as well as letters, drama and music. Among the winners were Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for their coverage of the spiraling Penn State child sex abuse scandal. They took top prize in the Local Reporting category. Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, 68, faces more than 52 counts involving sexual acts with 10 boys dating back to 1994. Ganim, 24, is credited with breaking the story and working to push it forward on the national stage. She is a 2008 graduate of Penn State. On her personal website, she says she has been a newspaper reporter since she was 15 years old. I have a police scanner on my nightstand. I fall to sleep and wake up to the morning news. I work 60-hour weeks digging and investigating, chatting up sources, and peeling back layers until I find amazing stories," she writes. The investigation also led to former school officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz being charged with perjury and failure to report a crime. Sandusky has pleaded not guilty and remains under house arrest until his trial begins June 5. Other 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners include: Public Service -- The Philadelphia Inquirer Breaking News Reporting -- The Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News Staff Investigative Reporting -- Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of The Associated Press and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times Explanatory Reporting -- David Kocieniewski of The New York Times National Reporting -- David Wood of The Huffington Post Drama -- "Water by the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegria Hudes History -- "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," by the late Manning Marable (Viking) Biography -- "George F. Kennan: An American Life," by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press) The committee chose not to make an award in the Editorial Writing category. Similarly, no prize was awarded in the Fiction category.