JOURNALISM 
 
 Public service: Los Angeles Times 
 
 Breaking news reporting: No award 
 
 Investigative reporting: Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 
 
 Explanatory reporting: Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
 
 Local reporting: Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times 
 
 National reporting: Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica 
 
 International reporting: Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times 
 
 Feature writing: Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey. 
 
 Commentary: David Leonhardt of The New York Times 
 
 Criticism: Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe 
 
 Editorial writing: Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal 
 
 Editorial cartooning: Mike Keefe of The Denver Post 
 
 Breaking news photography: Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post 
 
 Feature photography: Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times 
 
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 ARTS 
 
 Fiction: "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf) 
 
 Drama: "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris 
 
 History: "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Co.) 
 
 Biography: "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press) 
 
 Poetry: "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) 
 
 General nonfiction: "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner) 
 
 Music: "Madame White Snake" by Zhou Long, premiered Feb. 26, 2010, by the Boston Opera at the Cutler Majestic Theatre ||||| The Los Angeles Times was awarded the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service for revealing official corruption in Bell and the feature photography award for Barbara Davidson's images of victims struggling to recover in the aftermath of gang violence.In a series of articles beginning last summer, a team of 20 reporters and editors, led by staff writers Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives, revealed that Bell officials secretly enriched themselves with extravagant salaries and benefits while illegally raising taxes on the city's residents, who are among the poorest in Los Angeles County.As a result, criminal charges were filed against former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo, who received an $800,000 salary and hundreds of thousands of dollars more in perks. He and seven other former city officials have been charged with multiple felonies. The revelations also led to millions of dollars in rebates of illegal taxes for Bell residents and tough new disclosure laws for cities and counties in California."The Bell coverage was a classic exercise in gang tackling executed by a newsroom that does this better than anybody," said Times Editor Russ Stanton after the awards were announced Monday.Davidson spent two years photographing victims of violent crime in South Los Angeles, Compton and Watts. Her work, the judges said, told an "intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city's crossfire of deadly gang violence." Her images — including a uniformed mother visiting the gravesite of her son who was killed while she served in Iraq — illustrated the human cost of crime, even at a time when the violent crime rate is dropping.The Bell coverage also received the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the American Society of News Editors' distinguished writing award for local accountability reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' top honor and the George Polk Award for local reporting."The real victors in this are the people of Bell who were able to get rid of — the only way to describe it — a repressive regime and have a real City Council," said Gottlieb, who took a swig from a bottle of champagne as his newsroom colleagues celebrated around him. In March, citizens in the southeast Los Angeles County city voted in a new City Council.Gottlieb, 57, recounted the moment he and Vives discovered Rizzo's inflated salary. They were sitting in a community room in Bell's Little Bear Park, with Rizzo and nine other Bell officials."I said to Rizzo, 'So how much money do you make?' And he coughed out, '$700,000.' And I wasn't sure I heard him right, and I said, 'How much?' And he said, '$700,000.' And Ruben goes, 'Jesus Christ!' "Vives, 32, who has been a reporter for three years, added: "At a time when people say that newspapers are dying, this is a day that I think we can say, no not really. I mean, we gave a small town … the opportunity to speak out. And that's what newspapers do."Davidson, 36, said she was "totally stunned." She thanked the families she photographed "for sharing their private pain and sorrow," and said she was "humbled by the honor" and hoped it would "raise awareness of the issue of gang violence and its impact on innocent victims."The Times has won 41 Pulitzer Prizes. Six of those are public service medals, more than any other newspaper. The New York Times also won two prizes this year. Ellen Barry and Clifford J. Levy won in international reporting for what the Pulitzer judges called their "dogged reporting that put a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia." Economics columnist David Leonhardt won the commentary prize for his "graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions." The Washington Post was awarded the prize for breaking news photography for its Haiti earthquake coverage. Times photographer Carolyn Cole, a Pulitzer winner in 2004, was a finalist for her "often haunting images" of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The nonprofit investigative news site ProPublica earned the national reporting prize for coverage of the nation's economic meltdown by reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein. It was the first Pulitzer given for reporting that appeared only online, not in print.The Boston Globe's art critic, Sebastian Smee, won the criticism prize for what the judges called his "vivid and exuberant writing about art." Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly, who won the category in 2007 for his eclectic restaurant reviews, was a finalist.Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal earned the editorial writing prize for his "well-crafted, against-the-grain" editorials challenging President Obama's healthcare reform legislation. It was the first Pulitzer Prize for the Journal since it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch 's News Corp. in 2007.Several newspapers had multiple finalists. The New York Times had five, and the Wall Street Journal and Chicago Tribune each had four.The Pulitzer board did not give an award in the breaking news category."After serious consideration, no entry received the necessary majority [of votes] required for the prize," said prize administrator Sig Gissler, who announced the awards at Columbia University In the letters, drama and music categories, Jennifer Egan's "A Visit from the Goon Squad" won for fiction. Siddhartha Mukherjee won in general nonfiction for "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer." Eric Foner won for history for "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery." Ron Chernow won for biography for "Washington: A Life." Kay Ryan won for poetry for "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems." Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park" won for drama. Zhou Long won in the music category for "Madame White Snake." ||||| The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists: 
 
 JOURNALISM 
 
 Public Service: 
 
 The Associated Press, for a series of articles documenting the use of slave labor in the commercial seafood industry in Indonesia and Thailand. More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen were freed after officials took action as a result of the AP's reporting. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: InsideClimate News, for a report that Exxon conducted climate research and then, without revealing the information to its stockholders, worked to cast doubt on the scientific consensus it confirmed; and the Tampa Bay Times, for a story on education in Pinellas County, Florida (moved to the Local Reporting category). 
 
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 Breaking News Reporting: 
 
 Los Angeles Times staff, for coverage of the San Bernardino massacre and the ensuing investigation. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: The Baltimore Sun staff, for coverage of rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray; and the staff of the Post and Courier, of Charleston, South Carolina, for obtaining video of a police officer shooting an unarmed motorist and reporting that put the shooting in context. 
 
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 Investigative Reporting: 
 
 Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier, of the Tampa Bay Times, and Michael Braga, of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, for a project on escalating violence and neglect in Florida mental hospitals. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Tom Robbins, of The Marshall Project, and Michael Schwirtz and Michael Winerip, of The New York Times, for a report on violence by corrections officers against inmates in New York state prisons; and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery and Robert Gebeloff, of The New York Times, for an investigation into the clauses in consumer and employee contracts that often prohibit lawsuits. 
 
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 Explanatory Reporting: 
 
 T. Christian Miller, of ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, of The Marshall Project, for a story about police and prosecutors who didn't believe an 18-year-old Washington woman when she reported that she was raped at knifepoint, and the two Colorado detectives who were able to connect a suspect back to her. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Colin Woodard, of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, for an account of ecological changes occurring in the warming ocean; and Jonathan D. Rockoff, Joseph Walker, Jeanne Whalen, Peter Loftus and Ed Silverman, of The Wall Street Journal, for an explanation of how pharmaceutical companies raise drug prices at great cost to patients and taxpayers. 
 
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 Local Reporting: 
 
 Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner, of the Tampa Bay Times, for a story that studied the effects on education in Pinellas County, Florida, when schools in poor neighborhoods were essentially desegregated and neglected. 
 
 Nominated as finalists: Michael Sallah, Emily Michot, Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein and Sohail Al-Jamea, of the Miami Herald, for coverage of a local drug sting that cost tens of millions of dollars but yielded no significant arrests; Sarah Maslin Nir, of The New York Times, for an investigation into the labor and health practices of nail salons; and Chris Serres, Glenn Howatt and David Joles, of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, for an exploration of the state's health care system for the disabled. 
 
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 National Reporting: 
 
 The Washington Post staff, for an examination of killings by police officers in the U.S., which found that 990 people had been shot and killed by on-duty police officers nationwide in 2015. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Jason Cherkis, of The Huffington Post, for reporting on opioid addiction; and Abrahm Lustgarten, Al Shaw, Jeff Larson, Naveena Sadasivam and David Sleight, of ProPublica, for coverage of the causes of the water crisis affecting the American West. 
 
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 International Reporting: 
 
 Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times, for coverage of abuse facing women in Afghanistan. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: The New York Times staff, for stories on the Islamic State group; and Tom Wright, Bradley Hope, Simon Clark, Mia Lamar and James Hookway, of The Wall Street Journal, for reporting that exposed corruption in Malaysia. 
 
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 Feature Writing: 
 
 Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker, for a story about the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: N.R. Kleinfield, of The New York Times, for an account of the last days of a Queens man; and Eli Saslow, of The Washington Post, for stories exploring lives affected by a natural disaster, gun violence and a frayed social safety net. 
 
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 Commentary: 
 
 Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe, for columns on the legacy of busing in Boston and its lingering effect on education. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Steve Lopez, of the Los Angeles Times, for columns illuminating inequities in wealth and opportunity in Los Angeles; and Nicholas D. Kristof, of The New York Times, for columns focused on migrants from Syria and other regions. 
 
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 Criticism: 
 
 Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, for television reviews. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Manohla Dargis, of The New York Times, for film reviews and essays; and Hilton Als, of The New Yorker, for theater reviews. 
 
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 Editorial Writing: 
 
 John Hackworth, of Sun Newspapers in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, for editorials on a deadly assault of an inmate by guards. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Andrew Green, Tricia Bishop, Peter Jensen and Glenn McNatt, of The Baltimore Sun, for editorials that demanded accountability in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death; and the editorial board of The New York Times, for editorials that focused on the human cost of gun violence. 
 
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 Editorial Cartooning: 
 
 Jack Ohman, of The Sacramento Bee. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Matt Davies, of Newsday in New York; and Steve Sack, of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis. 
 
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 Breaking News Photography: 
 
 Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter, of The New York Times, for photographs of refugees and the peril of their journeys, and Thomson Reuters staff, for photos of migrants covering hundreds of miles. 
 
 Also nominated as a finalist: Andrew Burton, Chip Somodevilla, Patrick Smith and Drew Angerer, of Getty Images, for photos of protests over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. 
 
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 Feature Photography: 
 
 Jessica Rinaldi, of The Boston Globe, for photos of a boy who strives to find his footing after being abused. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: Rinaldi, for photos chronicling the struggles of a single addict in Massachusetts; and the photography staff of The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, for coverage of a racially motivated church shooting and its aftermath. 
 
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 LETTERS AND DRAMA 
 
 Fiction: 
 
 "The Sympathizer," by Viet Thanh Nguyen 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: "Get in Trouble: Stories," a collection of short stories by Kelly Link; and "Maud's Line," by Margaret Verble. 
 
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 Drama: 
 
 "Hamilton," by Lin-Manuel Miranda 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: "Gloria," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; and "The Humans," by Stephen Karam. 
 
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 History: 
 
 "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America," by T.J. Stiles 
 
 Nominated as finalists: "The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency," by Annie Jacobsen; "Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War," by Brian Matthew Jordan; and "Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor," by James M. Scott. 
 
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 Biography or Autobiography: 
 
 "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life," by William Finnegan 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: "The Light of the World: A Memoir," by Elizabeth Alexander; and "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America," by T.J. Stiles (moved to the History category). 
 
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 Poetry: 
 
 "Ozone Journal," by Peter Balakian 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: "Four-Legged Girl," by Diane Seuss; and "Alive: New and Selected Poems," by Elizabeth Willis. 
 
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 General Nonfiction: 
 
 "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS," by Joby Warrick 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: "Between the World and Me," by Ta-Nehisi Coates; and "If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran," by Carla Power. 
 
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 MUSIC 
 
 "In for a Penny, In for a Pound," by Henry Threadgill, recording released on May 26, 2015 by Zooid. 
 
 Also nominated as finalists: "The Blind Banister," by Timo Andres, which premiered on Nov. 27, 2015, in St. Paul, Minnesota, by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and "The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor," by Carter Pann, recording released on Sept. 8, 2015 by Capitol Quartet.
– The Los Angeles Times took home the coveted public service Pulitzer Prize this afternoon for its exposé of widepsread corruption in the city of Bell, Calif. The piece eventually led to the arrests of eight city officials, including the city administrator, who was pulling down $800,000 a year. The Times took home a second Pulizter for feature photography. A look at some of the other winners: Investigative reporting: Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Explanatory reporting: Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar, and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel National reporting: Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica International reporting: Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of the New York Times Commentary: David Leonhardt of the New York Times Criticism: Sebastian Smee of the Boston Globe Editorial writing: Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal Editorial cartooning: Mike Keefe of the Denver Post Breaking news photography: Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn, and Ricky Carioti of the Washington Post Look through the gallery for more winners, or click for the complete list of Pulitzer Prize winners.