18 April 2011
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The Los Angeles Times won the public service and feature photography awards
The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times have each been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism.
The Los Angeles Times won the public service prize for a series exposing how some local California politicians were paying themselves six-figure salaries.
The New York Times won for commentary and international reporting.
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in New York City to honour the best in US literature, journalism and music.
The Los Angeles Times’s reporting, which found officials in the town of Bell in California were raising property taxes and other fees to help cover up their large salaries, led to arrests of some of the town’s political leaders.
“The real victors in this are the people of Bell, who were able to get rid of, there’s no other way to say it, an oppressive regime,” said reporter Jeff Gottlieb, following the announcement of the award.
The Los Angeles Times won a second prize for feature photography.
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