
• Sean Hannity was revealed to be the mysterious third client of Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen.
• It’s not the first time Hannity and Trump have been linked.
• Hannity has delivered unwavering support for Trump for years, while Trump has helped Hannity soar to the best ratings in cable news.

Fox News opinion host Sean Hannity was revealed on Monday to be one of the clients of Michael Cohen, the attorney for President Donald Trump, several news outlets reported.

Monday’s revelation wasn’t the first time Trump and Hannity have been linked. The pair have been close for years, well before Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency.

In fact, Trump and Hannity have benefited from each others’ platforms immensely – Hannity lent unwavering support to Trump when other news outlets were critical of him, while Trump’s frequent appearances on Hannity’s show boosted Hannity to some of the highest ratings in cable news.

Look inside the relationship of Trump and Hannity to see how what they first bonded over and how close they remain today:

Before he was president, Trump was a frequent guest on Fox News. His friendship with Hannity seems to have formed around 2011, when Hannity gave Trump airtime to promote a conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.

A year later, in 2012, Hannity revealed on his show that he advised Trump not to run in that year’s presidential election as an independent candidate.

Throughout Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the candidate found a safe haven in Hannity’s show, where he was shielded from the critical press coverage he received on other networks.

Hannity has defended a number of Trump’s most controversial incidents, his boasts about being sexually aggressive with women, and his racially-charged attacks against a Mexican-American federal judge and NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem.

Their relationship has become so close that Hannity is a de facto Trump adviser. In October, the Los Angeles Times reported that Trump often calls Hannity after the host’s nightly show.

In February, reports emerged that Hannity had advised Trump to release a controversial memo by Rep. Devin Nunes that fueled conspiracy theories about the FBI’s Russia investigation, even though the FBI advised against releasing it and neither Trump nor Hannity had read the memo.

Hannity’s unwavering support of Trump earned him higher viewership than any other cable news show for months, although he was recently surpassed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

Observers consider Hannity’s relationship to a sitting president highly unorthodox. ‘He’s talking for four hours a day. He’s got social media. He’s empowered by his new status at Fox, this massive institution of Republican power,’ media history expert Nicole Hemmer told The New York Times.

Hannity has made the most of his status in the Trump orbit, including appearances at Trump-owned golf courses with local Republican politicians.

Meanwhile, Trump frequently tweets about upcoming appearances on Hannity’s evening show.

Hannity told The New York Times his support for Trump makes him ‘more honest’ than mainstream reporters who hide their biases.

And their close relationship is mutually beneficial. ‘Hannity’s a numbers guy, Trump’s a numbers guy. He thinks there’s nothing worse than bad numbers, and he knows Hannity’s got his finger on the pulse,’ a friend of Hannity’s told The Times.</s>The New York Times used a full page to print an editorial on Sunday to call on Republicans to stand up to President Donald Trump.

In an editorial titled "The President Is Not Above The Law," the newspaper's editorial board said that it is up to the Republican-controlled Congress to affirm the rule of law.

The Times editorial comes at a time when there are growing concerns that Trump could look to undermine or completely shut down special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and Trump's alleged ties to Russia. Trump has recently ramped up his public and private attacks on Mueller's probe.

Many Republicans and Democrats have urged the president not to fire Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel's investigation on behalf of the Justice Department. Lawmakers have told Trump to allow the investigation to run its course and not to impede, as it could lead to a constitutional crisis and a potential impeachment.

Some lawmakers have proposed legislation to protect Mueller and the investigation from being disbanded, but GOP leadership does not seem to believe that is a necessary step.

"Make no mistake: If Mr. Trump takes such drastic action, he will be striking at the foundation of the American government, attempting to set a precedent that a president, alone among American citizens, is above the law", The Times editorial board said.

The editorial board noted Trump's history of sharp criticism of individuals followed by lack of action on firing them. However, The Times reported that Trump has wanted to fire Mueller twice before being dissuaded by his legal team and advisers to take such an action.

While the American public is overwhelmingly supportive of Mueller keeping his job and could be upset if action is taken against the special counsel's investigation, the editorial board fears that the public could see this as just another food fight in Washington, DC and let it go.

The Times applauded the warnings that some Republicans are sending to Trump if he interferes with the investigation, but went to say that there needs to be more action so that Trump does not set a new precedent.

"But should Mr. Trump move to hobble or kill the investigation, he would darken rather than dispel the cloud of suspicion around him," the editorial board said. "Far worse, he would free future presidents to politicize American justice. That would be a danger to every American, of whatever political leaning."

The editorial concluded by saying that Trump is a citizen, not a king, and that it is up to the GOP to protect the rule of law.

"The president is not a king but a citizen, deserving of the presumption of innocence and other protections, yet also vulnerable to lawful scrutiny," the editorial board wrote. "We hope Mr. Trump recognizes this. If he doesn't, how Republican lawmakers respond will shape the future not only of this presidency and of one of the country's great political parties, but of the American experiment itself."</s>This article is more than 1 year old

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The most famous names of American journalism were honoured on Monday with Pulitzer prizes for investigating Donald Trump and exposing endemic sexual harassment in Hollywood.

And in a dramatic cultural breakthough, 30-year-old rapper Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer for music in a category long reserved for classical works.

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The New York Times and New Yorker were jointly awarded the Pulitzer prize for public service on Monday for investigating accusations of sexual harassment and assault made against one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein.

Reports on the allegations, which Weinstein has denied, led to a cascade of accusations and admissions of sexual misconduct in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, politics and beyond as the #MeToo movement made 2017 a year of reckoning for powerful men.

The Times also shared the national reporting Pulitzer with rival the Washington Post, in recognition of each newspaper’s dedicated coverage of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.

But in a year when the media has been galvanised by digging into Trump’s chaotic presidency, Lamar’s award for his album Damn also stood out as the rapper from Compton, California became the first rap artist to win a Pulitzer in music. It is the first piece of popular music to receive the music award since it was introduced in 1943.

The music award was the last to be announced at the Pulitzer prize ceremony on Monday afternoon at Columbia University in New York City. Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy, the first woman and person of color to announce the award, smiled while reading Lamar’s name.

Before announcing the journalism winners, Canedy explained why these works were selected: “Their work is real news of the highest order, executed nobly as journalism was always intended, without fear or favor.”

Her reference to “real news” was a subtle rebuke to Donald Trump’s constant badgering of journalists, which has helped make the phrase “fake news” part of the cultural lexicon.

The two national newspapers to take home the most awards, the New York Times and the Washington Post, have been subjected to repeated attacks by the president. Trump has called for the Post to be registered as a lobbying group and frequently complains about reporting done by the “failing” New York Times.

The New York Times, however, won the most Pulitzer prizes with three awards. Its final award was in the editorial cartooning for a series profiling a real-life family of refugees in the US.

The Times’ rival, the Washington Post, secured two awards.

The second was the investigative reporting prize, handed down for the newspaper’s examination of the Republican nominee for the Alabama’s special Senate election, Roy Moore. He lost the race after six women said Moore pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. He denied dating anyone underage and that he had sexually assaulted anyone.

Marty Baron, executive editor at the Washington Post, said in a statement: “In the end, the work of these Post journalists stands as a case study in why we need a free and independent press in this country.”

The allegations made against Moore also helped drive the commentary award, which was given to John Archibald, an Alabama Media Group writer and longtime Birmingham News columnist, for his writing on state politics.



He was one of several regional journalists and newspapers to be awarded a Pulitzer.

The Press Democrat, in Santa Rosa, California, earned the breaking news award for its coverage of the wildfires that devastated the state last year.

The Arizona Republic, with the USA Today Network, was awarded the explanatory journalism award for a series on the border wall between the US and Mexico.

And the Cincinnati Enquirer took home the local reporting award for a package on how the region has been affected by the opioid addiction crisis.

Andie Dominick, of the Des Moines Register, received the editorial writing prize for “examining in a clear, indignant voice, free of cliché or sentimentality” the consequences of Iowa healthcare laws.



Photographer Ryan Kelly, of the Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia, won the breaking news photography award for capturing the moment a car struck demonstrators during a clash between white supremacists and their opponents.



Persistent racism in the US also marked the feature writing award, which went to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, for her reporting on Dylann Roof, who killed nine black people at a church in South Carolina, for GQ magazine in the piece A Most American Terrorist.



The international reporting prize went to Reuters for its coverage of the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, which has seen thousands killed. The wire reporting service also won the feature photography award for following the plight of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar.

And the New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz won the criticism prize.

Along with Lamar’s Damn, the other winners outside of the journalism categories were Andrew Sean Greer’s Less, for fiction; Cost of Living, for drama; The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea for US history and Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, for biography.

Poet Frank Bidart won the award for his collection Half-Light and the nonfiction award went to James Forman Jr for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.</s>The New York Times and The New Yorker jump-started the #MeToo movement with back to back stories about Harvey Weinstein's systemic abuse.

Now those stories are widely expected to be recognized with one of America's most prestigious prizes.

The Pulitzers, administered by Columbia University, are annual awards for newspaper, magazine and digital news coverage. In newsrooms like The Times and The Washington Post, the Pulitzers are considered the pinnacle of achievement.

The 2018 winners will be announced on Monday afternoon at Columbia University. The 3 p.m. ET announcement will be live-streamed.

"Every few years a dominant story — brilliantly handled — emerges as front-runner for the year's top journalism Pulitzer Prize," longtime Pulitzer handicapper Roy J. Harris Jr. wrote for Poynter last week.

"Amid the mind-boggling series of exclusives coming from Washington, and often focused on President Donald Trump's White House, perhaps 2017's most impactful work was reporting that created a groundswell out of the phenomenon so widely described now by #MeToo and #TimesUp," Harris wrote.

That's why there has been speculation that the Times and New Yorker investigations could share the Pulitzer for the public service category.

Scoops about the Trump administration and other subjects are also likely to be recognized.

The awards recognize "the importance of a strong vibrant independent press," new Pulitzers administrator Dana Canedy said at a recent reception.

In an allusion to President Trump's frequent "fake news" attacks against the media, she said the Pulitzers recognize "real news of the highest order."

Each year, judges narrow down the nominees in 14 journalism categories and 7 arts categories. Then the Pulitzer board meets in secret to determine the winners.

Last year, The New York Daily News and ProPublica were the twin recipients of the public service prize for their joint investigation into NYPD abuse of eviction rules.

The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold won the national reporting prize for investigating Trump's track record of charitable giving.

Other winners included the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald, in the explanatory reporting category, for coverage of the Panama Papers; the East Bay Times for breaking news; and the Charleston Gazette-Mail for investigative reporting.</s>NEW YORK — The Latest on the Pulitzer Prizes (all times local):

Andrew Sean Greer's "Less" has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Greer's novel tells the comic story of a middle-aged novelist. The awards were given out Monday at an announcement at New York's Columbia University.

The drama prize went to Martyna Majok for "Cost of Living," Carolyn Fraser's work on author Laura Ingalls Wilder, "Prairie Fires," won for biography.

James Forman Jr's "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" won for general nonfiction, and Jack E. Davis' The Gulf" for history.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN." has won the Pulitzer Prize for music. It's the first non-classical or jazz work to win the award.

The Pulitzer board on Monday called the album a work that captures the complexity of African-American life.

Lamar has been praised and lauded for his deep lyrical content, remarkable live performances, and his profound mix of hip-hop, spoken word, jazz, soul, funk, poetry and African sounds.

His major-label albums "good kid, m.A.A.d city," ''To Pimp a Butterfly" and "DAMN." became works of art, with Lamar writing songs about blackness, street life, police brutality, perseverance, survival and self-worth.

His piercing raps helped him become the voice of the generation, and easily ascend as the leader in hip-hop and cross over to audiences outside of rap, from rock to pop to jazz.

The New York Times and The Washington Post have won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for illuminating the ongoing investigation into possible contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian officials.

American journalism's most prestigious awards were announced Monday at Columbia University.

A string of stories in the two newspapers shined light on connections between Russian officials and Trump's 2016 campaign. The ties fueled Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into alleged Russian attempts to influence the presidential election.

The New York Times and the New Yorker won the public service prize for sexual misconduct reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement.

The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, won the breaking news award for coverage of the wildfires that swept through California's wine country last fall.

The New York Times and The New Yorker have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting on Harvey Weinstein and sexual misconduct that galvanized the #MeToo movement.

American journalism's most prestigious awards are being announced Monday at Columbia University.

In stories that appeared within days of each other in October, The Times and The New Yorker reported that Weinstein had faced allegations of sexual harassment and assault from multiple women in Hollywood going back decades. The movie producer's attorneys have said he denies any non-consensual sexual contact with anyone.

The stories' impact soon spread beyond Weinstein to allegations against other prominent men. And the #MeToo hashtag quickly became rallying cry for people to speak out about their own experiences of sexual harassment and assault.

The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts are set to be announced in New York City.

The winners are being revealed Monday afternoon at Columbia University.

The Pulitzer Prizes recognize the best journalism of 2017 in newspapers, magazines and websites. There are 14 categories for reporting, photography, criticism and commentary.

In the arts, prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music.

The first journalism prizes were awarded in 1917, including one to the New York Tribune for an editorial on the first anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. That year, two daughters of abolitionist Julia Ward Howe won for a biography of their mother — at a time when women couldn't vote and the literary world was dominated by men.</s>The New York Times and The New Yorker were awarded one of America’s most prestigious prizes on Monday for reporting that put the #MeToo movement in the national spotlight.

The two publications received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their reporting on Harvey Weinstein’s systemic abuse of women in the entertainment industry.

The Pulitzers, administered by Columbia University, are annual awards for newspaper, magazine and digital news coverage. In newsrooms like The Times and The Washington Post, the Pulitzers are considered the pinnacle of achievement.

Among the other winners:
• The Press Democrat of Sonoma County, California, received the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for the paper’s coverage of wildfires in the state last fall.
• The Washington Post received the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for its reporting about U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
• The Arizona Republic and the USA Today Network received the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for its examination of President Trump’s proposed border wall.
• The Cincinnati Enquirer received the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for its coverage of the heroin epidemic.
• The New York Times and the Washington Post shared the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for its coverage of Trump and Russia.
• Reuters received the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for its coverage of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his reported connections to police assassination squads.
• GQ received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for a profile of Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015.
• The Alabama Media Group received the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for columns about Civil War monuments in the state.
• New York Magazine received the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for work by art critic Jerry Saltz.
• The Des Moines Register received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for work related to health care in the state.
• The New York Times received the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.
• The Daily Progress received the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for coverage of protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
• Reuters received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for coverage of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.

Prizes were also awarded for fiction, nonfiction, drama, history, biography, poetry and music. Kendrick Lamar made history for being the first rapper to take home the music prize for his fourth studio album, “Damn.”

“Every few years a dominant story — brilliantly handled — emerges as front-runner for the year’s top journalism Pulitzer Prize,” longtime Pulitzer handicapper Roy J. Harris Jr. wrote for Poynter last week.

“Amid the mind-boggling series of exclusives coming from Washington, and often focused on President Donald Trump’s White House, perhaps 2017’s most impactful work was reporting that created a groundswell out of the phenomenon so widely described now by #MeToo and #TimesUp,” Harris wrote.

The awards recognize “the importance of a strong vibrant independent press,” new Pulitzers administrator Dana Canedy said at a recent reception.

In an allusion to Trump’s frequent “fake news” attacks against the media, she said the Pulitzers recognize “real news of the highest order.”

Each year, judges narrow down the nominees in 14 journalism categories and 7 arts categories. Then the Pulitzer board meets in secret to determine the winners.

Last year, The New York Daily News and ProPublica were the twin recipients of the public service prize for their joint investigation into NYPD abuse of eviction rules.

The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold won the national reporting prize for investigating Trump’s track record of charitable giving.

Other winners included the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald, in the explanatory reporting category, for coverage of the Panama Papers; the East Bay Times for breaking news; and the Charleston Gazette-Mail for investigative reporting.</s>NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace.

The Times and The Washington Post took the award in the national reporting category for their coverage of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian officials.

The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, received the breaking news reporting award for coverage of the wildfires that swept through California wine country last fall, killing 44 people and destroying thousands of homes.

The Washington Post also won the investigative reporting prize for revealing decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct against Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama. The Republican former judge denied the accusations, but they figured heavily in Doug Jones' victory as the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state in decades.

One of the biggest surprises of the day came in the non-journalism categories when rap star Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer for music, becoming the first non-classical or non-jazz artist to win the prize.

The Pulitzers, American journalism's most prestigious awards, reflected a year of unrelenting news and unprecedented challenges for U.S. media, as Trump repeatedly branded reporting "fake news" and called journalists "the enemy of the people."

The New York Times won three Pulitzers and The Washington Post and Reuters received two apiece.

In announcing the journalism prizes, Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy said the winners "uphold the highest purpose of a free and independent press, even in the most trying of times."

"Their work is real news of the highest order, executed nobly, as journalism was always intended, without fear or favor," she said.

A string of stories in The Times and The Washington Post shined a light on Russian interference in the presidential election and its possible connections to the Trump campaign and transition — ties now under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. The president has called the investigation a "witch hunt."

The Pulitzer judges commended the two newspapers for "deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest."

In stories that appeared within days of each other in October, The Times and The New Yorker reported that movie mogul Weinstein faced allegations of sexual harassment and assault from a multitude of women in Hollywood and had secretly paid settlements to keep the claims from becoming public.

The Pulitzer judges said The Times' reporters, led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow produced "explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators" and forced the issue of sexual abuse into the open.

"By revealing secret settlements, persuading victims to speak and bringing powerful men to account, we spurred a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse that only seems to be growing," New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said in remarks to the newsroom.

"People have been saying for decades that this kind of behavior is endemic in society," New Yorker editor David Remnick said, adding that he hoped the stories would "help not only bring it to light but change the culture."

Weinstein was ousted from the studio he co-founded and now faces criminal investigations in New York and Los Angeles. He has apologized for "the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past" but denied any non-consensual sexual contact.

The stories' impact spread beyond Weinstein to allegations against other powerful men in entertainment, politics and other fields, toppling such figures as "Today" show host Matt Lauer, actor Kevin Spacey, newsman Charlie Rose and Sen. Al Franken. Men and women, famous or not, have spoken about their own experiences with sexual harassment and assault in what has become known as the #MeToo movement.

"This moment gets called a reckoning, but we just started telling the truth about old abuses of power," Farrow tweeted Monday.

Weinstein spokeswoman Holly Baird declined to comment on the Pulitzer except to suggest similar recognition should be given to Tarana Burke, an activist who founded the #MeToo movement on Twitter about a decade ago to raise awareness of sexual violence.

In other categories, the Arizona Republic and USA Today Network won the explanatory reporting prize for a multi-format look at the challenges and consequences of building the Mexican border wall that was a centerpiece of Trump's campaign. The project included footage from a helicopter flight along the entire 2,000-mile border.

The local reporting award went to The Cincinnati Enquirer for what the judges called "a riveting and insightful" narrative and video about the heroin epidemic in the area. More than four dozen reporters and photographers dove into the drug's toll over one week.

Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters won the international reporting award for their coverage of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown on drugs, and the news agency's photographers received the feature photography prize for their images of the plight of Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar.

The breaking news photography award went to Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Virginia, who captured the moment a car plowed into counter-protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in the college town. The car killed counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer.

Kelly made the photo on his last day at the newspaper before moving on to a job at a brewery. In a text Monday, Kelly described the prize as an "incredible honor" but added: "Mostly I'm still heartbroken for Heather Heyer's family and everybody else who was affected by that tragic violence."

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, a freelance writer for GQ magazine, took the feature writing award for a profile of Dylann Roof, the avowed white supremacist convicted of killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.

The commentary award went to John Archibald of Alabama Media Group in Birmingham, Alabama, for pieces on politics, women's rights and other topics. Art critic Jerry Saltz of New York magazine won the criticism award .

Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register received the editorial writing prize for pieces about the consequences of privatizing Iowa's administration of Medicaid.

Freelance writer Jake Halpern and freelance cartoonist Michael Sloan were awarded the editorial cartooning prize for a graphic narrative in The New York Times about a family of refugees fearing deportation.

The Pulitzers were announced at Columbia University, which administers the prizes. This is the 102nd year of the contest, established by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

Winners of the public service award receive a gold medal; the other awards carry a prize of $15,000 each.

Associated Press writers Justin Lynch and Colleen Long in New York and Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, contributed to this report.</s>The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and arts were announced on Monday at New York's Columbia University. Several journalists were awarded recognition for their stories highlighting sexual harassment at the workplace, Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election and the Rohingya crisis among other issues.

Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy, the first black woman to present the awards began the announcement by saying that “The journalism categories yet again uphold the highest purpose of a free and independent press, even in the most trying of times” and indicated that, “These courageous, inspiring and committed journalists and their news organisations are undaunted in their mission in support of the Fourth Estate.”

"It is a mandate that has been under a seemingly relentless assault of late but that remains central to a healthy democracy," she added.

Here is a look at some of the winners and their contribution:

The New York Times and The New Yorker

The New York Times and The New Yorker were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for stories about disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men who have been accused of sexual harassment and abuse. The citation noted that the reporting by the Times' Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker had spurred "a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women."

The prestigious prize was awarded to the Times team led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and New Yorker contributor Ronan Farrow, for reports that disgraced the Hollywood mogul and sparked an avalanche of accusations against other powerful men.

Since the Times and New Yorker articles last October, more than 100 women have publicly accused the producer of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to rape, sparking the #MeToo movement that has seen a string of influential men lose their jobs and reputation.

Weinstein's marriage has ended, he has been under police investigation in London, Los Angeles and New York, hit by a litany of civil lawsuits and his former production company has been forced to file for bankruptcy.

Farrow, 30, is the son of actress Mia Farrow and film director Woody Allen, and something of a prodigy who has previously fronted his own television show, worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan for late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, and formerly advised then Hillary Clinton on global youth issues when she was secretary of state.

The former Rhodes scholar, who graduated from Yale Law School at just 21, has sided with his sister Dylan's claims that Allen molested her when she was seven. Allen has repeatedly denied the allegations.

"So so so proud," tweeted Mia Farrow minutes after her son's award was announced.

Ronan Farrow paid tribute to his co-winners and The New Yorker. "This moment gets called a reckoning, but we just started telling the truth about old abuses of power. Thanks to all who keep doing so," he wrote on Twitter to his nearly half a million followers.

The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the investigative category for relentless reporting seen as having influenced the outcome of the 2017 Senate race in Alabama, revealing Republican candidate Roy Moore's alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls.

The Republican former judge denied the accusations, but they figured heavily in Doug Jones' victory as the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state in decades.

The New York Times and The Washington Post also shared the national reporting prize for furthering understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the connections between Russian actors and the Trump campaign, his transition team and administration, Canedy said.

The Washington Post first carried a story in the summer of 2016 that Russian agents had been involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The paper gave readers an inside-view into the US government's decision-making response to the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election in a detailed 7,000-word article, drawing on months of extensive reporting and interviews with nearly three dozen officials.

Acknowledging the award, The New York Times detailed some of its work covering the 2016 election scandal saying, "When The Times approached the White House in July 2017 with knowledge of a secret meeting during the 2016 campaign between Russians and top advisers to Donald J. Trump, the administration put out a false statement, saying the meeting was set up to discuss Russian adoptions. But continued digging showed Moscow had offered compromising information on Hillary Clinton, and that the Trump campaign was eagerly interested in the information. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, learned of the meeting’s true purpose from The Times, prompting him to investigate further."

The Pulitzers, the most prestigious awards in American journalism, recognised Reuters in international reporting for exposing the methods of police killing squads in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, and for feature photography documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

“In a year in which many Pulitzers were rightly devoted to US domestic matters, we’re proud at Reuters to shine a light on global issues of profound concern and importance,” Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler said.

It was the first time Reuters has won two prizes in one year.

In the Philippines coverage, Reuters reporters Clare Baldwin, Andrew RC Marshall and Manuel Mogato “demonstrated how police in the president’s ‘drug war’ have killed with impunity and consistently been shielded from prosecution,” Adler said.

The coverage included a report that revealed how a police anti-drug squad on the outskirts of Manila had recorded an unusually high number of killings. Many members of the squad came from a distant place that was also Duterte’s hometown, where the campaign’s brutal methods originated during his time as mayor there.

The Reuters photography staff was honoured for images of the violence endured by the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, as they fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.

“The extraordinary photography of the mass exodus of the Rohingya people to Bangladesh demonstrates not only the human cost of conflict but also the essential role photojournalism can play in revealing it,” Adler said.

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been jailed in Myanmar since 12 December, charged under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, while investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in Rakhine state.

Ryan M. Kelly won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his “chilling image” of a car ploughing into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville. The image was taken during Kelly's final assignment on his last day as a staff photographer at The Daily Progress.

Kelly had been covering a white nationalist rally on 12 August when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, resulting in the death of one person and injuring 19 others who had been scrambling to escape being hit by the car when they were tossed about in the ensuing chaos.

The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network received the award for explanatory reporting for multimedia reporting, including podcasts and virtual reality, that examined US President Donald Trump's proposal to construct a wall along the US-Mexico border.

USA Today noted, "The Wall: Unknown Stories, Unintended Consequences project, led by The Arizona Republic and involving more than 30 USA Today Network journalists from California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, won the Pulitzer for explanatory journalism. The project used virtual reality, aerial video, 360-degree video, documentary video, photos, podcasts and interactive maps — as well as more than a dozen stories — to examine and explain President Trump's complicated border wall proposal that spans 2,000 miles."

Here is the full list of winners</s>Journalism’s top prize was awarded Monday to The New York Times and The New Yorker for reporting that sparked the #MeToo movement.

Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post shared a prize for national reporting for scoops about Russian interference in the U.S. elections.

The awards, which honor newspapers, magazines, online journalism, literature and music, were announced by Columbia University’s journalism school.

Speculation leading up to the announcement pitted the Times against the New Yorker for the top public service prize for stories that stayed in the headlines for much of the year.

They ended up sharing the prize for stories about the #MeToo movement, which revealed sexual harassment in Hollywood and beyond, and put an end to the Tinseltown reign of filmmaker Harvey Weinstein.

The public service prize mentioned the work of The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow, and the Times’ Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.

“Most journalists consider the work they do a calling,” said new Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy. “Their work is real news of the highest order.”

Canedy’s appearance at the event marked the first time in the prize’s 102-year history that the awards were announced by a black woman.

Each year, judges narrow down the more than 2,400 submissions in 14 journalism and seven arts categories, including music.

Then the Pulitzer board meets in secret to determine the winners.

Among the big names walking away with a prize was rapper Kendrick Lamar, who was recognized for his album “DAMN.”

Last year, the Daily News, along with ProPublica, won in the coveted public service category for “uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.”

The award was established in 1917 after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer left $250,000 in his will to Columbia to launch a journalism school.

In the will, Pulitzer specified “four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education and four traveling scholarships.”

The first Pulitzer Prizes were given out after his death on June 4, 191, and the ceremony is now held every April.

John F. Kennedy was the only President to win the award for his book “Profiles in Courage.”

The Pulitzer Prize luncheon takes place in May at Low Library on the Columbia University campus

Winners in the Public Service category are given a gold medal.

Public service Pulitzer awards cannot be given to an individual. But journalists are often named in the citation.</s>NEW YORK: The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday (Apr 16) for explosive reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein and spawned a cultural watershed on the issue of sexual harassment.

The prestigious prize was awarded to the Times team led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and New Yorker contributor Ronan Farrow, for reports that disgraced the Hollywood mogul and sparked an avalanche of accusations against other powerful men.

Since the Times and New Yorker articles last October, more than 100 women have publicly accused the producer of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to rape, sparking the #MeToo movement that has seen a string of influential men lose their jobs and reputation.

Weinstein's marriage has ended, he has been under police investigation in London, Los Angeles and New York, hit by a litany of civil lawsuits and his former production company has been forced to file for bankruptcy.

Farrow, 30, is the son of actress Mia Farrow and film director Woody Allen, and something of a prodigy who has previously fronted his own television show, worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan for late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, and formerly advised then Hillary Clinton on global youth issues when she was secretary of state.

The former Rhodes scholar, who graduated from Yale Law School at just 21, has sided with his sister Dylan's claims that Allen molested her when she was seven. Allen has repeatedly denied the allegations.

"So so so proud," tweeted Mia Farrow minutes after her son's award was announced. Ronan Farrow paid tribute to his co-winners and The New Yorker.

"This moment gets called a reckoning, but we just started telling the truth about old abuses of power. Thanks to all who keep doing so," he wrote on Twitter to his nearly half a million followers.

The 102th edition of the Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York by administrator Dana Canedy at a time when the US news media still under assault from the White House for peddling "fake news."

Canedy praised the winners but also counselled the media to do more to improve trust with a skeptical public and to work harder to include more varied gender and racial perspectives.

'MOST TRYING OF TIMES'

The Washington Post won the Pulitzer in the investigative category for relentless reporting seen as having influenced the outcome of the 2017 Senate race in Alabama, revealing Republican candidate Roy Moore's alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls.

Moore's opponent Doug Jones won the race last December, becoming Alabama's first Democratic senator in 25 years and dealing a humiliating blow to President Donald Trump's Republican administration.

The New York Times and The Washington Post shared the national reporting prize for furthering understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the connections between Russian actors and the Trump campaign, his transition team and administration, Canedy said.

"Winners uphold the highest purpose of a free and independent press even in the most trying of times," she announced.

"These courageous, inspiring and committed journalists and their news organisations are undaunted in their mission in support of the fourth estate.

"It is a mandate that has been under a seemingly relentless assault of late but that remains central to a healthy democracy," she added.

Reuters won the 2018 prize in international reporting for coverage of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. Reuters also won in the feature photography category for its coverage of the Rohingya crisis.

The prize for breaking news photography went to Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress for a chilling image that captured the moment of impact by a car at a racially-charged protest in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one woman dead last August.

The Pulitzer for fiction went to Andrew Sean Greer for "Less" about growing older and love. The history prize was awarded to "The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea," and the prize in drama for "Cost of Living" by playwright Martyna Majok.
The annual Pulitzer Prizes, which celebrate US journalism, are awarded. The New York Times wins the most with three. Pieces on Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement feature prominently.