Pulitzer Prize recipients announced

The South Florida Sun Sentinel and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday and were recognized along with the Capital Gazette of Maryland for their coverage of the horrifying mass shootings in 2018 at a high school, a synagogue and a newsroom itself. The Associated Press won in the international reporting category for documenting the humanitarian horrors of Yemen’s civil war, while the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were honored for delving into President Donald Trump’s finances and breaking open the hush-money scandals involving two women who said they had affairs with him. The Florida paper received the Pulitzer in public service for its coverage of the massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and for detailing the shortcomings in school discipline and security that contributed to the carnage.

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Mon., April 15, 2019

Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel celebrate their bittersweet honor Monday, April 15, 2019, in Deerfield Beach, Fla., after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper won for its coverage of the Parkland school shooting.

Carline Jean Ap
In this Oct. 29, 2018, photo taken by Reuters photographer Adrees Latif, Luis Acosta carries 5-year-old Angel Jesus, both from Honduras, as a caravan of migrants from Central America en route to the United States crossed through the Suchiate River into Mexico from Guatemala in the outskirts of Tapachula. A team of Reuters photographers won the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for their coverage of migrants as they journeyed to the U.S. from Central and South America.

Adrees Latif Associated Press
Darrin Bell hugs his wife Makeda Rashidi after he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning during a 2019 Pulitzer Prize announcement ceremony in the newsroom at the Washington Post office in Washington on Monday, April 15, 2019.

Jabin Botsford Associated Press
Carlos Lozada hugs his family members after winning a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism during a 2019 Pulitzer Prize announcement ceremony in the newsroom at the Washington Post office in Washington on Monday, April 15, 2019.

Jabin Botsford Associated Press
Lorenzo Tugnoli, center right, reacts as people in the newsroom at The Washington Post office celebrate during the Pulitzer Prize announcement of his winning a Pulitzer for Feature Photography for photographs he made of the tragic famine in Yemen in 2018 for The Post on Monday, April 15, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Jabin Botsford Associated Press
This Feb. 14, 2017, photo provided by The Pulitzer Prizes shows Reuters journalist Wa Lone, based in Myanmar, while attending a hostile environment course in Kanchanaburi Province, near Bangkok, Thailand. Lone was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting that exposed the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion (The Pulitzer Prizes via AP) ORG XMIT: NYR210
This undated photo provided by The Pulitzer Prizes shows Ellen Reid, who won the Pulitzer Prize in music for “Prism.” (The Pulitzer Prizes via AP) ORG XMIT: NYR209
This undated photo shows author Richard Powers who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his book, “The Overstory.”

Dean Dixon Associated Press
This undated photo provided by The Pulitzer Prizes shows author Eliza Griswold, who won the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction with “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.”
This undated photo provided by The Pulitzer Prizes shows Hannah Dreier, of ProPublica, who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, Monday, April 15, 2019. Dreier won for what the judges described as “powerful, intimate narratives” about Salvadoran immigrants affected by a federal crackdown on the MS-13 gang.
This undated handout photo provided by the Pulitzer Prizes shows Harriet Ryan of the Los Angeles Times, who was part of a team of three Times reporters to win the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Monday, April 15, 2019.
This undated photo provided by The Pulitzer Prizes shows Matt Hamilton of the Los Angeles Times, who was part of a team of three Times reporters to win the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Monday, April 15, 2019. The team won for reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.
This undated photo provided by The Pulitzer Prizes shows photojournalist Lorenzo Tugnoli of the Washington Post, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
In this Nov. 21, 2008 photo, Aretha Franklin performs at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.

Shea Walsh Associated Press
FILE - In this June 7, 2015 file photo, Aretha Franklin sings during a memorial service for her father and brother, Rev. C.L. and Rev. Cecil Franklin, at New Bethel Baptist Church where they were ministers, in Detroit. Franklin is still getting R.E.S.P.E.C.T. after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, April 15, 2019, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930. Franklin, 76, died at her home in Detroit on Aug. 16, 2018.

Elizabeth Conley Associated Press
This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” by David W. Blight, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.