The winners of the Pulitzer prize were announced Monday. Details on all are at the previous link along with the winning stories (under the work tab in each category), but here are some highlights.

David Barstow & Lowell Bergman won for public service for their pieces on workplace safety. The companion Frontline doc (which recently won a Peabody) is online and has an update on some of the issues in the series.
It was nominated in investigative reporting, but moved to public service.

The Toledo Blade Tiger Force series won for investigative reporting.

There was no award given in the feature category.

LA Times won for national reporting on Wal-Mart

David Zucchino was a finalist in international reporting and has a new book based on his coverage for the LA Times, Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. Anthony Shadid won for his Iraq reporting for the Washington Post (he is one of the few reporters from a US media organization who speaks Arabic).

David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer of The Dallas Morning News won the breaking photography award for their photographs from Iraq.

Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times won the feature photography award for her photos of the war in Liberia.

The lit & music winners:

Fiction: The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HarperCollins)

Drama: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

History: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

Biography: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman (W.W. Norton)

Poetry: Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)

General non-fiction: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)

Music: Tempest Fantasy by Paul Moravec