11 newsrooms split 13 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism

No newsroom dominated the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes, with The New York Times and Los Angeles Times taking home two each. The surprise win went to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for investigative reporting.

The LA Times won the Public Service medal for “Breach of Faith,” as we predicted. ProPublica won National Reporting for their coverage of the financial crisis. (Full list after the jump.)

Reactions and further coverage:

• Paul Steiger on ProPublica’s second Pulitzer in as many years
• Nieman Journalism Lab on the growth of entries from online-only news orgs
• Al Tompkins explains why no one won the breaking news prize; Tennessean happy to be a finalist
• Talking Biz News: “Best showing for business journalism in the history of the awards.”
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune Executive Editor Mike Connelly on the paper’s first Pulitzer: “I’m not getting much work done today.”
• LA Weekly’s Jonathan Gold the first restaurant critic to win the prize for criticism
• Washington Post photographers chat online about their Pulitzer
• In the past four Pulitzer competitions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is batting .750
• Sun-Times reporter hears about his Pulitzer while making cops calls
• Four-year-old’s birthday present: Dad wins a Pulitzer
• Denver Post editorial cartoonist: “I thought my day had passed.”

PUBLIC SERVICE

• Winner: Los Angeles Times “for its exposure of corruption in the small California city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, resulting in arrests and reforms.”
• Finalist: Bloomberg
• Finalist: The New York Times

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

• Winner: No award
• Finalist: Chicago Tribune
• Finalist: The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, a joint staff entry.
• Finalist: Staff of The Tennessean, Nashville

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• Winner: Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune “for her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action.”
• Finalist: Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times
• Finalist: Sam Roe and Jared S. Hopkins of the Chicago Tribune

EXPLANATORY REPORTING

• Winner: Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “for their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.”
• Finalist: Staff of The Wall Street Journal
• Finalist: Staff of The Washington Post

LOCAL REPORTING

• Winner: Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times “for their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.”
• Finalist: Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las Vegas Sun
• Finalist: Stanley Nelson of Concordia (La.) Sentinel, a weekly

NATIONAL REPORTING

• Winner: Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica “for their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation’s economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers.”
• Finalist: David Evans of Bloomberg News
• Finalist: Staff of The Wall Street Journal

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING

• Winner: Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times “for their dogged reporting that put a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia, remarkably influencing the discussion inside the country.”
• Finalist: Deborah Sontag of The New York Times
• Finalist: Staff of The Wall Street Journal

FEATURE WRITING

• Winner: Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J. for “for her deeply probing story of the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men.”
• Finalist: Tony Bartelme of The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
• Finalist: Michael M. Phillips of The Wall Street Journal

COMMENTARY

• Winner: David Leonhardt of The New York Times “for his graceful penetration of America’s complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform.”
• Finalist: Phillip Morris of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
• Finalist: Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune

CRITICISM

• Winner: Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe for his “for his vivid and exuberant writing about art.”
• Finalist: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly
• Finalist: Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times

EDITORIAL WRITING

• Winner: Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal “for his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”
• Finalist: Jackson Diehl of The Washington Post
• Finalist: John McCormick of the Chicago Tribune

EDITORIAL CARTOONING

• Winner: Mike Keefe of The Denver Post “for his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.”
• Finalist: Matt Davies
• Finalist: Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

• Winner: Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post “for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.”
• Finalist: Daniel Berehulak and Paula Bronstein of Getty Images
• Finalist: Carolyn Cole of Los Angeles Times

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

• Winner: Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times “for her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city’s crossfire of deadly gang violence.”
• Finalist: Todd Heisler of The New York Times
• Finalist: Greg Kahn of The Naples (Fla.) Daily News