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New York Times bags seven Pulitzers

NEW YORK April 9. Coverage of the September 11 attacks on America dominated the Pulitzer Prizes awarded yesterday, with The New York Times winning a record seven of the 14 journalism awards.

The Times staff won the most prestigious of the Pulitzers, for public service, for its special section "A Nation Challenged," published regularly after the attacks on New York and Washington in which about 3,000 people were killed.

The Pulitzer Prize Board, which announced the 86th annual awards at Columbia University, said the section "coherently and comprehensively covered the tragic events, profiled the victims and tracked the developing story, locally and globally."

The Wall Street Journal staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news, reporting on the attacks "under the most difficult circumstances," the board said. Journal staff members had to flee their offices across the street from the World Trade Center on September 11 but, working from their homes and a makeshift newsroom in New Jersey, managed to put out a newspaper the next day.

"This Pulitzer Prize ... belongs not just to the reporters and editors, but also to our computer support folks, our paginators, our press operators, our delivery people, to all of the employees," said the Managing Editor, Paul Steiger.

The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, won a Pulitzer — his third — for commentary. The board commended his "clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat."

Friedman won the prize for reporting in 1983 for his coverage of Lebanon and in 1988 of Israel.

The Times staff won both Pulitzers in photography — breaking news for coverage of the attack and aftermath and feature coverage "chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

— Reuters

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