2005 Pulitzer Prize

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The Pulitzer Prizes for 2005 were announced on 2005-04-04.

Journalism

Beat reporting: Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal for her "stories about patients, families and physicians [of the] world of cancer survivors".

Breaking news photography: Associated Press staff Murad Sezer, Khalid Mohammed

Breaking news reporting: Staff of The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, for "coverage of the resignation of New Jersey’s governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover".

Commentary: Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

Criticism: Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal

Explanatory reporting: Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe for explaining "the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research".

Editorial cartooning: Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.

Editorial writing: Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee

Feature photography: Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle

Feature writing: Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune for her "account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois".

International reporting:

Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her "coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work".

Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, New York,for his look at Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide.

Investigative reporting: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon, "for his investigation exposing a former governor’s long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl".

National reporting: Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times for his "stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings".

Public service: Los Angeles Times, for "exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital".