Due sorprese all”annuncio dei vincitori del Pultizer 2012. La prima: sono stati premiati due siti di informazione online. Sono l’Huffington Post (nella foto) e il Politico, entrambi al primo “nobel” del giornalismo. La seconda: diverse categorie sono rimaste senza vincitore. Tra queste quella della narrativa. Non accadeva da 35 anni. La giuria dell’onorificenza assegnata per la prima volta nel 1917 non ha ritenuto opportuno assegnare il premio. Tra i giornalisti premiata Sara Ganim del Patriot-news per le notizie locali sullo scandalo degli abusi sessuali alla Penn State University.
Questa la lista dei premiati, categoria per categoria.
GIORNALISMO
Public Service: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Breaking news reporting: The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff
Reportage d’investigazione: Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley dell’Associated Press e Michael J. Berens e Ken Armstrong del Seattle Times
EXPLANATORY REPORTING: David Kocieniewski of The New York Times
LOCAL REPORTING: Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Pa.
NATIONAL REPORTING: David Wood of The Huffington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times
FEATURE WRITING: Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle weekly
COMMENTARY: Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune
CRITICISM: Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL WRITING: No award
EDITORIAL CARTOONING: Matt Wuerker of Politico
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post
LETTERS AND DRAMA
FICTION: No award
DRAMA: “Water by the Spoonful” by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes
HISTORY: “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” by Manning Marable (Viking)
BIOGRAPHY: “George F. Kennan: An American Life” by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
POETRY: “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION: “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton and Company)
MUSIC: “Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts” by Kevin Puts, commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis on Nov. 12, 2011. (LASTAMPA)