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Pulitzer Prizes Honor Journalists Under Threat With New Crop Of Winners

Prize Administrator Dana Canedy stepped behind the lectern Monday to deliver good news to distinguished journalists, scholars, musicians and others. Here's the full list of winners.
Source: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes

Updated at 4:24 p.m. ET

Dana Canedy kept her remarks brief Monday. But by the time the Pulitzer Prize administrator left the lectern at Columbia University, she had significantly altered the careers and prospects of a host of journalists, artists and scholars across nearly two dozen categories.

With their $15,000 in award money, each is receiving

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